Robert Taylor will be stepping into the shoes of Agent Leroy Gibbs’ dad for NCIS Origins.
Robert Taylor is to join the cast of NCIS Origins, a prequel drama delving into the life of Agent Gibbs.
CBS announced at the beginning of the year that NCIS Origins was in the works with the network slowly drip-feeding who would be in the cast.
Now, it has been announced that actor Robert Taylor is going to portray younger Gibbs’ (played by Austin Stowell) hard-nosed dad, Jackson Gibbs.
Having appeared on screen since the late 1980s, Taylor has a longlist of work under his belt, including Home And Away, The Feds, Stingers, Ballykissangel, Satisfaction and Killing Time.
But probably his biggest role to date has been in the Western Netflix drama Longmire.
The 60-year-old Australian actor has been playing county sheriff Walt Longmire since 2012, starr ing opposite Adam Bartley, Katee Sackhoff and Lou Diamond Phillips, to name a few.
In the series, Walt reluctantly returns to work after his wife’s death and it is with help from his friends that he manages to investigate numerous dangerous crimes.
Longmire ran for six seasons, first airing on A&E Network before moving to Netflix in 2015 and finishing two years later.
Going by his IMDb profile, Taylor has another couple of projects also in the works away from the NCIS universe.
Grounded, which is now believed to be completed, is about “a man and his quest for purpose after losing the first two loves of his life”.
The second of the two projects Taylor is working on is Kid Snow which is currently in post-production.
Acting alongside Phoebe Tonkin and Billy Howle, the 1970s drama is about the world of tent boxing in outback Western Australia and “breaking free from the cycle of loss and regret”.
When either of these are going to be released though, hasn’t been announced just yet.
Taylor isn’t the only new cast member to be joining Origins as Power Book II: Ghost actor Daniel Bellomy will also be in the new drama.
He is going to play Special Agent Granville “Granny” Dawson who is itching to work his way up the ranks to a field agent.
Bellomy is accompanied by Made For Love’s Caleb Martin Foote as lovable “golden boy” Special Agent Benjamin “Randy” Randolf.