Dub Taylor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
238
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-02-26
Day of death
1994-10-03 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Dub Taylor
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Perry Mason
The Virginian
The Virginian
Little House on the Prairie
Love, American Style
Love, American Style
Love, American Style
Hawaii Five-O
The Wild Wild West
The Cosby Show
The Twilight Zone
I Love Lucy
Cheyenne
The Big Valley
Hazel
Hazel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Emergency!
Emergency!
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The High Chaparral
The High Chaparral
Lawman
Lawman
Lawman
Burke's Law
That Girl
The Odd Couple
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip
Dennis the Menace
Designing Women
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Surfside 6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Monkees
How the West Was Won
Laredo
Back to the Future Part III
Alias Smith and Jones
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Mod Squad
The Rescuers
How the West Was Won
Lancer
Them!
Cimarron Strip
Burnt Offerings
26 Men
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Hallelujah Trail
Mr. Terrific
Pocketful of Miracles
Maverick
The Loner
1941
Cannonball Run II
Beyond the Sacramento
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Fastest Gun Alive
Movin' On
The Gambler: The Luck Of The Draw
Once Upon a Texas Train
The Winds of Autumn
The Monroes
Creature from Black Lake
The Wild Bunch
Menace on the Mountain
Custer
The Lloyd Bridges Show
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Riding Shotgun
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Junior Bonner
The Learning Tree
Wichita Town
Death Valley Days
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Ensign O'Toole
The Westerner
Bret Maverick
Tanks a Million
The Undefeated
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
A Man Called Horse
Death of a Gunfighter
Major Dundee
The Vigilantes Ride
Temple Houston
Casey Jones
Falling from Grace
Honky Tonk
Ride a Northbound Horse
The Money Jungle
Bonnie and Clyde
Parrish
A Hole in the Head
The Beachcomber
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Used Cars
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Saddles and Sagebrush
Across the Sierras
The Wild Country
Sundown Valley
Frontier Gunlaw
No Time for Sergeants
The Brian Keith Show
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Spencer's Mountain
Carefree
Hands Across the Rockies
Riding High
Texas Panhandle
Cowboy in the Clouds
The Return of Daniel Boone
The Cincinnati Kid
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Gator
Pioneers of the Frontier
Run, Joe, Run
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
The Son of Davy Crockett
The Reivers
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Something for a Lonely Man
The Bounty Hunter
Crime Wave
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conagher
The Decorator
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Courtin' Trouble
A Star Is Born
Dragnet
Hearts of the West
Chopper One
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Range Renegades
The Taming of the West
Silver Trails
Roaring Westward
The Return of Wild Bill
Great Day
Tom Sawyer
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Tall Man Riding
The Best of Times
Mooncussers
I Died a Thousand Times
Across The Rio Grande
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
You Can't Take It with You
Home from the Hill
Support Your Local Gunfighter
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Moonshine County Express
Rough Ridin' Justice
Partners of the Sunset
The Getaway
Johnny Banco
The Losers
Don't Make Waves
Auntie Mame
Beartooth
Saddle Leather Law
The Lone Prairie
Both Barrels Blazing
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
The Rangers Ride
Brand of Fear
Evel Knievel
A Tornado in the Saddle
Period of Adjustment
Bandolero!
Pony Express Rider
Minesweeper
Country Blue
The Outlaws
Hot Rod Gang
Poor Pretty Eddie
Oklahoma Blues
Silver City Raiders
Flash and the Firecat
Lawless Code
Gun Law Justice
Outlaw Brand
One Man's Law
North from the Lone Star
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
Life with Buster Keaton
Brock's Last Case
You Can't Run Away from It
Song of the Drifter
Man and Boy
This Is a Hijack
Wild in the Sky
Doc Hooker's Bunch
Treasure of Matecumbe
The Fortune
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Gun Runner
Black Gold
Tick... Tick... Tick...
Prairie Schooners
The Wildcat of Tucson
The Last Horseman
Lawless Empire
Cowboy Canteen
Blazing the Western Trail
Cowboy Cavalier
Ridin' Down the Trail
Wyoming Hurricane
The Marshall of Trail City
Rustlers of the Badlands
Outlaws of the Rockies
Sagebrush Heroes
King of Dodge City
