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