Dub Taylor

Acting · 1.7 popularity

Age

119

Movies

157

Born: February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA

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

Works

157 films

Back to the Future Part III

19907.5

The Rescuers

19776.8

Bonnie and Clyde

19677.5

1941

19795.8

How the West Was Won

19627.0

The Wild Bunch

19697.6

The Getaway

19727.2

Maverick

19946.9

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

19737.2

Them!

19546.8

Used Cars

19806.4

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

19676.6

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

19746.8

Cannonball Run II

19845.4

Bandolero!

19686.6

The Undefeated

19696.3

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

You Can't Take It with You

19387.5

Major Dundee

19656.7

Gator

19765.2

Pocketful of Miracles

19617.3

A Star Is Born

19547.1

Don't Make Waves

19675.2

Auntie Mame

19587.0

Tom Sawyer

19736.4

… tick… tick… tick…

19706.7

The Hallelujah Trail

19656.1

The Reivers

19696.4

Burnt Offerings

19766.5

Home from the Hill

19606.9

The Fastest Gun Alive

19566.9

Support Your Local Gunfighter

19716.6

Sweet Bird of Youth

19626.7

Conagher

19916.7

A Man Called Horse

19706.4

Crime Wave

19537.1

Poor Pretty Eddie

19755.2

Spencer's Mountain

19636.8

The Fortune

19755.4

Death of a Gunfighter

19696.3

Riding Shotgun

19546.0

The Best of Times

19865.7

Treasure of Matecumbe

19766.5

You Can't Run Away from It

19565.1

Hot Rod Gang

19585.3

No Time for Sergeants

19587.3

Junior Bonner

19726.1

Carefree

19386.7

The Shakiest Gun in the West

19686.2

Once Upon a Texas Train

19885.2

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

19914.8

Tall Man Riding

19555.8

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

19729.0

The Wild Country

19706.1

I Died a Thousand Times

19556.2

The Bounty Hunter

19546.8

A Hole in the Head

19596.2

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way

19784.4

Parrish

19615.0

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

19706.1

Moonshine County Express

19774.9

Period of Adjustment

19626.0

Something for a Lonely Man

19687.6

Creature from Black Lake

19765.2

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

19916.3

Shootout in a One-Dog Town

197410.0

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

19754.8

Hearts of the West

19755.6

The Great Smokey Roadblock

19785.7

The Son of Davy Crockett

194110.0

Evel Knievel

19715.0

Riding High

19506.1

Dragnet

19546.1

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

19719.0

Hands Across the Rockies

19417.2

Menace on the Mountain

19705.3

Ride a Northbound Horse

196910.0

Beyond the Sacramento

19409.0

Beartooth

19784.6

Pony Express Rider

19766.0

Country Blue

19734.6

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

19815.1

The Learning Tree

19696.7

The Return of Daniel Boone

19416.0

This Is a Hijack

19735.4

Honky Tonk

19748.0

Falling from Grace

19925.0

Across The Rio Grande

19494.5

Prairie Schooners

19408.0

Man and Boy

19716.7

Mooncussers

19626.7

The Outlaws

1984

The Losers

1963

Kit Carson and the Mountain Men

19779.0

Blazing the Western Trail

19456.3

Partners of the Sunset

194810.0

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

19437.5

The Last Horseman

19448.0

The Rangers Ride

194810.0

The Wildcat of Tucson

194010.0

Across the Sierras

19414.5

Black Gold

19624.5

The Winds of Autumn

19766.0

Life with Buster Keaton

19518.5

North from the Lone Star

19418.0

Range Renegades

19489.0

Pioneers of the Frontier

19409.0

Song of the Drifter

19487.0

Wild in the Sky

19728.0

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

19449.0

Flash and the Firecat

19758.5

Brock's Last Case

19735.0

Minesweeper

19435.2

Frontier Gunlaw

19467.0

One Man's Law

194010.0

The Man from Tumbleweeds

19405.0

The Return of Wild Bill

19407.0

Silver Trails

19489.0

Rustlers of the Badlands

19458.0

Cowboy Canteen

19448.0

King of Dodge City

19419.0

The Money Jungle

19675.6

Cowboy in the Clouds

19437.0

Ridin' Down the Trail

19479.0

Saddles and Sagebrush

19435.0

Roaring Westward

19498.0

Cowboy from Lonesome River

19447.0

The Lone Prairie

19428.5

The Decorator

19656.0

Cowboy Cavalier

194810.0

Gun Runner

19498.0

Brand of Fear

19496.5

Both Barrels Blazing

19455.5

Tanks a Million

19415.8

Oklahoma Blues

19489.0

Wyoming Hurricane

19447.0

Sagebrush Heroes

19459.0

The Marshall of Trail City

19506.0

Outlaw Brand

194810.0

Outlaws of the Rockies

19457.5

Doc Hooker's Bunch

19787.0

Rough Ridin' Justice

194510.0

Saddle Leather Law

19447.0

Silver City Raiders

19438.0

Great Day

1977

Taming of the West

193910.0

Johnny Banco

19676.0

A Tornado in the Saddle

19423.0

Lawless Empire

194510.0

Sundown Valley

194410.0

The Vigilantes Ride

19439.0

Courtin' Trouble

194810.0

Lawless Code

19499.0

Gun Law Justice

194910.0

Texas Panhandle

19457.0