The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. It is about 112 acres (0.45 km2) large.
American actor Robert Taylor owned the ranch for several years before his death in 1969. The ranch was then purchased by Ken Roberts, former owner of the KROQ-FM radio station. The ranch is also the setting for most of the 1983 Sam Peckinpah movie, The Osterman Weekend.
In 2010 the ranch was sold to hedge fund New Stream Capital to settle a $27,500,000 legal claim. On November 30, 2012, the ranch was resold at an auction for $12 million to Fred Latsko, a Chicago-based real estate developer.
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