Grant Taylor was born in Australia in 1917. He became an actor and captured the co staring role (Patch behind Robert Newton's, Long John) in Australian televisions (and the Worlds) first ever COLOUR TV series Long John Silver, in which he's young son Kit played Jim Hawkins 1955. He moved to the United Kingdom and started work on the medical drama Emergency Ward 10 later appearing in the Anglia TV's soap "Weavers Green" and several guest outings in Lew Grade backed projects. (inc. The Avengers, The Champions and The Trouble Shooters) On the movie side you can see this fine character actor in Quatermass and the pit (1967) and opposite the kids in Calamity the Cow (Phil Collins), but is however most famous for his role as General Henderson in the Gerry Anderson science fiction series UFO. His last appearance in the series was in the penultimate episode 'Mindbender'. He died of cancer the following year in 1971 aged 54. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emergency Ward 10 was a British television series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... UFO was a British television science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and produced by Andersons and Lew Grades Century 21 Productions for Grades ITC Entertainment company. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...