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Dub Taylor
Actor
Born February 26, 1907Died October 3, 1994 (87 years)
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Walter Clarence Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994), known as Dub Taylor, was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He was the father of actor Buck Taylor, who played the character Newly O'Brien on Gunsmoke.
Walter C. Taylor Jr. was born in 1907 in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor, Sr. According to the federal census of 1920, young Walter had two older sisters, Minnie Marg[aret] and Maud, a younger brother named George, and a little sister, Edna Fay. The family moved to Augusta, Georgia around 1912 when Walter was five years old, and the Taylors lived in this city until he was 13. The census of 1920 also documents that Dub's mother was a native of Pennsylvania and his father was a native of North Carolina, who worked in Augusta at that time as a "Cotton Broker". While living in Georgia as a boy, Walter, Jr., got his lifelong nickname when his friends began calling him "W" (double-u) and then shortened his nickname even farther, to just "Dub". It was in Georgia, too, where Taylor befriended Ty Cobb, Jr., the son of the legendary professional baseball player.
A vaudeville performer, Dub Taylor was a member of the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team that played in the 1938 Rose Bowl. He stayed behind to establish a career in films, making his film debut in 1938 as the cheerful ex-football captain Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You. Taylor secured the part because the role required an actor who could also play the xylophone. Later, during the 1950s and early 1960s, he demonstrated his considerable talent for playing the xylophone on several television shows, including an episode on the syndicated series Ranch Party hosted by Tex Ritter.
In 1939, he appeared in the film Taming of the West, in which he originated the character of Cannonball, a role he continued to play for the next ten years, in over 50 films. Cannonball was a comic sidekick to Wild Bill Saunders (played by Bill Elliott), a pairing that continued through 13 features, during which Elliott’s character became Wild Bill Hickok.
Despite his extensive career as a character actor in a wide range of roles, Dub Taylor continued to find his niche in Westerns, a genre in which he performed in literally dozens of more films and in episodes of many television series. Taylor often appeared in the guise of talkative hotel or postal clerks, court bailiffs, cooks, or dissolute doctors. He portrayed, for example, an ill-tempered chuckwagon cook in the 1969 film The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. He appeared as well in the 1971 movie Support Your Local Gunfighter as the drunken Doc Shultz. Taylor played Houston Lamb over the course of four episodes of Little House On The Prairie in seasons six and seven (1979 to 1981). Taylor made at least two film cameos in the early 1990s. In Back to the Future Part III, he appeared with veteran Western actors Pat Buttram and Harry Carey Jr.. His last appearance was in the film Maverick as a hotel room clerk.
Dub Taylor died of a heart attack on October 3, 1994 in Los Angeles. In addition to being father to Buck Taylor, Dub had a daughter, Faydean Taylor Tharp. CLR
Walter Clarence Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994), known as Dub Taylor, was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extensively in films and on television, often in Westerns but also in comedies. He was the father of actor Buck Taylor, who played the character Newly O'Brien on Gunsmoke.
Walter C. Taylor Jr. was born in 1907 in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor, Sr. According to the federal census of 1920, young Walter had two older sisters, Minnie Marg[aret] and Maud, a younger brother named George, and a little sister, Edna Fay. The family moved to Augusta, Georgia around 1912 when Walter was five years old, and the Taylors lived in this city until he was 13. The census of 1920 also documents that Dub's mother was a native of Pennsylvania and his father was a native of North Carolina, who worked in Augusta at that time as a "Cotton Broker". While living in Georgia as a boy, Walter, Jr., got his lifelong nickname when his friends began calling him "W" (double-u) and then shortened his nickname even farther, to just "Dub". It was in Georgia, too, where Taylor befriended Ty Cobb, Jr., the son of the legendary professional baseball player.
A vaudeville performer, Dub Taylor was a member of the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team that played in the 1938 Rose Bowl. He stayed behind to establish a career in films, making his film debut in 1938 as the cheerful ex-football captain Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You. Taylor secured the part because the role required an actor who could also play the xylophone. Later, during the 1950s and early 1960s, he demonstrated his considerable talent for playing the xylophone on several television shows, including an episode on the syndicated series Ranch Party hosted by Tex Ritter.
In 1939, he appeared in the film Taming of the West, in which he originated the character of Cannonball, a role he continued to play for the next ten years, in over 50 films. Cannonball was a comic sidekick to Wild Bill Saunders (played by Bill Elliott), a pairing that continued through 13 features, during which Elliott’s character became Wild Bill Hickok.
Despite his extensive career as a character actor in a wide range of roles, Dub Taylor continued to find his niche in Westerns, a genre in which he performed in literally dozens of more films and in episodes of many television series. Taylor often appeared in the guise of talkative hotel or postal clerks, court bailiffs, cooks, or dissolute doctors. He portrayed, for example, an ill-tempered chuckwagon cook in the 1969 film The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson. He appeared as well in the 1971 movie Support Your Local Gunfighter as the drunken Doc Shultz. Taylor played Houston Lamb over the course of four episodes of Little House On The Prairie in seasons six and seven (1979 to 1981). Taylor made at least two film cameos in the early 1990s. In Back to the Future Part III, he appeared with veteran Western actors Pat Buttram and Harry Carey Jr.. His last appearance was in the film Maverick as a hotel room clerk.
Dub Taylor died of a heart attack on October 3, 1994 in Los Angeles. In addition to being father to Buck Taylor, Dub had a daughter, Faydean Taylor Tharp. CLR
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Filmography
| 1994 | Maverick · as Room Clerk |
| 1993 | Johnny Bago (TV Series) · as Hick Benson |
| 1992 | Falling from Grace · as Grandpa Parks |
| 1991 | The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw · as The Westerner's Friend |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys · as Gimme Cap |
| 1990 | Evening Shade (TV Series) · as Earl |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Arthur Kapinsky |
| 1990 | Back to the Future Part III · as Saloon Old Timer |
| 1988 | Once Upon a Texas Train · as Charlie Lee |
| 1987 | CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) · as Charlie |
| 1986 | Designing Women (TV Series) |
| 1986 | Starman (TV Series) · as Murphy |
| 1986 | The Best of Times · as Mac |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show (TV Series) · as Slim Claxton |
| 1984 | Cannonball Run II · as Police Officer |
| 1983 | Hardcastle and McCormick (TV Series) · as Sid |
| 1981 | Bret Maverick (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Darkroom (TV Series) · as Dixie Weeks |
| 1981 | Father Murphy (TV Series) · as Billy Bob |
| 1981 | Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. · as Cottonmouth Gorch |
| 1980 | Cheaper to Keep Her · as Harvey |
| 1980 | Used Cars · as Tucker |
| 1979 | 1941 · as Mr. Malcomb |
| 1979 | Salvage 1 (TV Series) · as Shorty |
| 1978 | They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way · as Gunner |
| 1978 | Doc Hooker's Bunch · as Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker |
| 1978 | |
| 1977 | The Great Smokey Roadblock · as Harley Davidson |
| 1977 | The Rescuers · as Digger (voice) |
| 1977 | Moonshine County Express · as Uncle Bill |
| 1976 | Pony Express Rider · as Boomer Riley |
| 1976 | Burnt Offerings · as Walker |
| 1976 | Gator · as Mayor T.l. Caffery |
| 1976 | Treasure of Matecumbe · as Sheriff Forbes |
| 1976 | The Winds of Autumn · as Rattler S. Gravley |
| 1976 | Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch · as (archive Footage) |
| 1976 | Creature from Black Lake · as Grandpaw Bridges |
| 1976 | How the West Was Won (TV Series) · as Moss |
| 1975 | Hearts of the West · as Nevada Ticket Agent |
| 1975 | Flash and the Firecat · as Sheriff C.w. Thurston |
| 1975 | The Fortune · as Rattlesnake Tom |
| 1975 | Poor Pretty Eddie · as Justice Of The Peace Floyd |
| 1974 | Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) |
| 1974 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot · as Station Attendant |
| 1974 | Movin' On (TV Series) |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) |
| 1974 | Chopper One (TV Series) · as Rudy |
| 1974 | Shootout in a One Dog Town · as Halsey |
| 1973 | This Is a Hijack · as Sheriff Gordon |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid · as Josh |
| 1973 | Tom Sawyer · as Clayton |
| 1973 | Brock's Last Case · as Judge Robbins |
| 1973 | Country Blue · as J.j. 'jumpy' Belk |
| 1972 | The Getaway · as Laughlin |
| 1972 | The Brian Keith Show/The Little People (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Junior Bonner · as Del |
| 1972 | The Delphi Bureau (TV Series) · as Old Timer |
| 1972 | Bless the Bomb · as Officer Roddenberry |
| 1972 | Emergency! (TV Series) · as George |
| 1971 | Cade's County (TV Series) · as Oscar Shaw |
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife (TV Series) · as Store Proprietor |
| 1971 | Evel Knievel · as Turquoise Smith |
| 1971 | Man and Boy · as Atkins |
| 1971 | Support Your Local Gunfighter · as Doc Schultz |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) |
| 1970 | The Wild Country · as Phil |
| 1970 | The Partridge Family (TV Series) · as Flicker |
| 1970 | The Odd Couple (TV Series) · as Slim |
| 1970 | The Interns (TV Series) · as Pitts |
| 1970 | The Liberation of L.B. Jones · as Mayor |
| 1970 | A Man Called Horse · as Joe |
| 1970 | Menace on the Mountain · as Cicero Everhart |
| 1970 | Tick, Tick, Tick · as Junior |
| 1969 | The Reivers · as Dr. Peabody |
| 1969 | The Undefeated · as Mccartney |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Grover |
| 1969 | The Learning Tree · as Spikey |
| 1969 | The Wild Bunch · as Reverend Wainscoat |
| 1969 | Death of a Gunfighter · as Doc Adams |
| 1968 | Something for a Lonely Man · as Sheriff |
| 1968 | Three Guns for Texas · as Marshal Denny Moran |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) |
| 1968 | Lancer (TV Series) |
| 1968 | The Outcasts (TV Series) · as Anson |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Ray Tobias |
| 1968 | Bandolero! · as Attendant |
| 1968 | The Shakiest Gun in the West · as Pop Cushings |
| 1967 | The Money Jungle · as Pete Jensen |
| 1967 | Don't Make Waves · as Electrician |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral (TV Series) · as Oscar Hipple |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV Series) · as Henry Jackson |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip (TV Series) · as Owley |
| 1967 | Custer (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde · as Ivan Moss |
| 1967 | |
| 1967 | The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin · as Timekeeper |
| 1967 | Mr. Terrific (TV Series) · as Preacher |
| 1966 | The Iron Horse (TV Series) · as Muley Simms |
| 1966 | |
| 1966 | The Monroes (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Monkees (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Cincinnati Kid · as Dealer |
| 1965 | The Loner (TV Series) · as Jim |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West (TV Series) · as Guard |
| 1965 | Tammy (TV Series) · as Hank |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Big Valley (TV Series) · as Doc Tully |
| 1965 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV Series) · as Ed Hewley |
| 1965 | The Hallelujah Trail · as Clayton Howell |
| 1965 | The Decorator · as Taxi Driver |
| 1965 | Major Dundee · as Priam |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Preacher |
| 1963 | My Favorite Martian (TV Series) · as Charles |
| 1963 | Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Garnet |
| 1963 | Temple Houston (TV Series) · as Cliff Willard |
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain · as Percy Cook |
| 1962 | Mooncussers · as Fire Tender |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won · as Man (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Period of Adjustment · as Drunk (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Ensign O'Toole (TV Series) · as Clerk |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Walt Cooper |
| 1962 | The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series) · as Freddy |
| 1962 | Black Gold · as Doc |
| 1962 | Octavius and Me · as Octavius Todd |
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth · as Dan Hatcher |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles · as Man (uncredited) |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Chief Engineer |
| 1961 | Hazel (TV Series) · as Mitch Brady |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Gregory |
| 1961 | Parrish · as Teet Howie |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) · as Billy Ray Talbot |
| 1960 | SurfSide 6 (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Michael Shayne (TV Series) · as Fats Walker |
| 1960 | The Westerner (TV Series) · as Walt Smith |
| 1960 | Outlaws (TV Series) · as Jake Fleishman |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Judge |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as George B. Glines |
| 1960 | Home from the Hill · as Bob Skaggs (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Dennis the Menace (TV Series) · as Opie |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Peters |
| 1959 | Wichita Town (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The June Allyson Show (TV Series) · as Old Fitts |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Smudge |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | A Hole in the Head · as Fred |
| 1958 | Auntie Mame · as County Veterinarian (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Flight (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Man Tourist |
| 1958 | Lawman (TV Series) · as Bartender |
| 1958 | Hot Rod Gang · as Landlord |
| 1958 | No Time for Sergeants · as Mr. Mckinney |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | Casey Jones (TV Series) · as Wallie Sims |
| 1957 | Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) · as Barney Place |
| 1957 | Captain David Grief (TV Series) · as Doctor |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Claude Randall |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Stroller |
| 1956 | You Can't Run Away from It · as Joe |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theatre (TV Series) · as Yancie |
| 1956 | Tension at Table Rock · as Ruffian |
| 1956 | The Fastest Gun Alive · as Nolan Brown (uncredited) |
| 1955 | The McConnell Story · as Angry Technical Sergeant |
| 1955 | I Died a Thousand Times · as Ed (uncredited) |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Farnum |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Hogan |
| 1955 | Tales of the Texas Rangers (TV Series) · as Jack Geyer |
| 1955 | Tall Man Riding · as Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Purse |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born · as Norman's Driver (uncredited) |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV Series) · as Hud |
| 1954 | The Bounty Hunter · as Eli Danvers |
| 1954 | Dragnet · as Miller Starkie |
| 1954 | Them! · as Railroad Yard Watchman |
| 1954 | Riding Shotgun · as Eddie |
| 1953 | Crime Wave · as Gus Snider |
| 1953 | Those Redheads from Seattle · as Townsman |
| 1953 | The Charge at Feather River · as Danowicz |
| 1952 | Lure of the Wilderness · as Sheriff Jepson |
| 1952 | Woman of the North Country · as Bob |
| 1952 | |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Rupert |
| 1951 | The Roy Rogers Show (TV Series) · as Barney Ord |
| 1951 | I Love Lucy (TV Series) · as Rattlesnake Jones |
| 1951 | The Range Rider (TV Series) · as Andy Jones |
| 1950 | Riding High · as Joe |
| 1949 | Brand of Fear · as Cannonball |
| 1949 | Across the Rio Grande · as Cannonball Taylor |
| 1949 | Gun Law Justice · as Cannonball |
| 1948 | Cowboy Cavalier · as Cannonball |
| 1948 | Oklahoma Blues · as Cannonball Taylor |
| 1945 | Texas Panhandle · as Cannonball Taylor |
| 1945 | Lawless Empire · as Cannonball |
| 1945 | Blazing the Western Trail · as Cannonball |
| 1945 | Outlaws of the Rockies · as Cannonball |
| 1945 | Both Barrels Blazing · as Cannonball |
| 1944 | The Last Horseman · as Cannonball |
| 1944 | Cowboy Canteen · as Cannonball |
| 1943 | Minesweeper · as Seaman Stubby Gordon |
| 1943 | Saddles and Sagebrush · as Cannonball |
| 1943 | Riders of the Northwest Mounted · as Cannonball |
| 1942 | A Tornado in the Saddle · as Cannonball |
| 1941 | Tanks a Million · as Malloy |
| 1941 | The Son of Davy Crockett · as Cannonball |
| 1941 | Hands Across the Rockies · as Cannonball Taylor |
| 1941 | The Return of Daniel Boone · as Cannonball |
| 1941 | Across the Sierras · as Cannonball |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch · as Xylophone Player |
| 1940 | Beyond the Sacramento · as Cannonball |
| 1940 | Prairie Schooners · as Cannonball |
| 1940 | The Return of Wild Bill · as Cannonball |
| 1940 | The Man from Tumbleweeds · as Cannonball |
| 1939 | Taming of the West · as Cannonball |
| 1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · as Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It with You · as Ed Carmichael |
| 1938 | Carefree · as Bit Part (uncredited) |