Dub Taylor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
239
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
Perry Mason
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
Little House on the Prairie
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Twilight Zone
The Cosby Show
Cheyenne
Emergency!
Emergency!
Hawaii Five-O
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Big Valley
I Love Lucy
Love, American Style
Love, American Style
Love, American Style
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Wild Wild West
Designing Women
Hazel
Hazel
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
The High Chaparral
The High Chaparral
Back to the Future Part III
Burke's Law
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Lawman
Lawman
Lawman
The Monkees
That Girl
How the West Was Won
The Odd Couple
Dennis the Menace
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip
The Rescuers
Laredo
Surfside 6
Alias Smith and Jones
How the West Was Won
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Mod Squad
The Partridge Family
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Lancer
Maverick
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Getaway
Silver Trails
Them!
Cimarron Strip
Crime Wave
Carefree
Riding High
Parrish
Dragnet
Movin' On
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild Bunch
Major Dundee
Used Cars
Riding Shotgun
Gator
Courtin' Trouble
Lawless Code
Junior Bonner
Tom Sawyer
Minesweeper
Great Day
Country Blue
1941
26 Men
Mr. Terrific
Conagher
The Reivers
Mooncussers
Cannonball Run II
Bandolero!
The Westerner
Johnny Banco
The Lloyd Bridges Show
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Wild in the Sky
Evel Knievel
Range Renegades
A Man Called Horse
Custer
Sundown Valley
Ensign O'Toole
The Loner
Beartooth
Oklahoma Blues
The Losers
The Fortune
You Can't Take It with You
Sweet Bird of Youth
Spencer's Mountain
Temple Houston
A Star Is Born
The Beachcomber
Pocketful of Miracles
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Auntie Mame
No Time for Sergeants
Wichita Town
Death of a Gunfighter
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Fastest Gun Alive
Support Your Local Gunfighter
A Hole in the Head
The Return of Wild Bill
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Brian Keith Show
The Return of Daniel Boone
The Monroes
The Wild Country
The Hallelujah Trail
Hands Across the Rockies
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Home from the Hill
The Learning Tree
Don't Make Waves
The Cincinnati Kid
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Casey Jones
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Run, Joe, Run
Burnt Offerings
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Saddles and Sagebrush
The Winds of Autumn
Treasure of Matecumbe
Bret Maverick
Death Valley Days
A Tornado in the Saddle
The Vigilantes Ride
Tall Man Riding
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Creature from Black Lake
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Hearts of the West
Once Upon a Texas Train
The Money Jungle
The Best of Times
Moonshine County Express
The Undefeated
The Man from Tumbleweeds
The Bounty Hunter
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
The Son of Davy Crockett
Man and Boy
Cowboy in the Clouds
… tick… tick… tick…
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Period of Adjustment
Tanks a Million
Something for a Lonely Man
Ride a Northbound Horse
I Died a Thousand Times
Falling from Grace
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Across The Rio Grande
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
Pioneers of the Frontier
The Rangers Ride
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
You Can't Run Away from It
Partners of the Sunset
Brand of Fear
Brock's Last Case
The Lone Prairie
Flash and the Firecat
Poor Pretty Eddie
Beyond the Sacramento
Pony Express Rider
Rough Ridin' Justice
This Is a Hijack
Gun Law Justice
Hot Rod Gang
Across the Sierras
Both Barrels Blazing
Saddle Leather Law
Chopper One
One Man's Law
Life with Buster Keaton
Menace on the Mountain
Honky Tonk
Wyoming Hurricane
The Decorator
Sagebrush Heroes
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Blazing the Western Trail
Doc Hooker's Bunch
The Outlaws
King of Dodge City
Cowboy Cavalier
North from the Lone Star
The Wildcat of Tucson
Gun Runner
Black Gold
Cowboy Canteen
Outlaw Brand
Song of the Drifter
Roaring Westward
Frontier Gunlaw
Texas Panhandle
The Last Horseman
Rustlers of the Badlands
Prairie Schooners
Outlaws of the Rockies
Ridin' Down the Trail
Lawless Empire
Taming of the West
Silver City Raiders
The Marshall of Trail City
