Dub Taylor
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
Back to the Future Part III
(Saloon Old Timer)
The Cincinnati Kid
(Dealer)
Bonnie and Clyde
(Ivan Moss)
The Wild Bunch
(Reverend Wainscoat)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(Reporter (uncredited))
The Shakiest Gun in the West
(Pop Cushings)
The Getaway
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The Best of Times
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1941
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The Rescuers
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(Station Attendant)
Cannonball Run II
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Maverick
(Room Clerk)
You Can't Take It with You
(Ed Carmichael)
Burnt Offerings
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Parrish
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The Outlaws
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A Man Called Horse
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Creature from Black Lake
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Spencer's Mountain
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Poor Pretty Eddie
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Great Day
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Pocketful of Miracles
(Man (uncredited))
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
(Doc Schultz)
How the West Was Won
(Man (uncredited))
No Time for Sergeants
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Crime Wave
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Falling from Grace
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The Fortune
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Country Blue
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Death of a Gunfighter
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Tall Man Riding
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I Died a Thousand Times
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Hot Rod Gang
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Major Dundee
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Man and Boy
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Once Upon a Texas Train
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The Return of Daniel Boone
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Gun Law Justice
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
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The Marshall of Trail City
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Across The Rio Grande
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Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
(Stableman)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
((archive footage))
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
(Bitteroot)
Black Gold
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A Hole in the Head
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Dragnet
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Beartooth
The Man from Tumbleweeds
(Cannonball)
Junior Bonner
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Wild in the Sky
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Gun Runner
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Outlaw Brand
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Lawless Code
(Cannonball Taylor)
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
(Cottonmouth Gorch)
Song of the Drifter
(Cannonball)
Range Renegades
(Cannonball)
Period of Adjustment
(Drunk (uncredited))
Something for a Lonely Man
(Sheriff)
Tom Sawyer
(Clayton)
Gator
(Mayor T.L. Caffery)
This Is a Hijack
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Tick... Tick... Tick...
(Junior)
Ride a Northbound Horse
(Purse)
Hands Across the Rockies
(Cannonball Taylor)
Them!
(Railroad Yard Watchman)
A Star Is Born
(Norman's Driver (uncredited))
The Money Jungle
(Pete Jensen)
The Great Smokey Roadblock
(Harley Davidson)
The Son of Davy Crockett
(Cannonball)
Courtin' Trouble
(Cannonball)
The Rangers Ride
(Cannonball Taylor)
Treasure of Matecumbe
(Sheriff Forbes)
Pony Express Rider
(Boomer Riley)
Roaring Westward
(Cannonball)
Sundown Valley
(Cannonball Boggs)
Saddle Leather Law
(Cannonball)
Partners of the Sunset
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Saddles and Sagebrush
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Silver Trails
(Cannonball)
Rough Ridin' Justice
(Cannonball)
Both Barrels Blazing
(Cannonball)
Bandolero!
(Attendant)
Oklahoma Blues
(Cannonball Taylor)
Cowboy Cavalier
(Cannonball)
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
(Cannonball)
The Wildcat of Tucson
(Cannonball)
Home from the Hill
(Bob Skaggs (uncredited))
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Life with Buster Keaton
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(Timekeeper)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
(Mayor)
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(Cannonball)
The Fastest Gun Alive
(Nolan Brown (uncredited))
Blazing the Western Trail
(Cannonball)
Lawless Empire
(Cannonball)
Texas Panhandle
(Cannonball Taylor)
Silver City Raiders
(Cannonball)
Minesweeper
(Seaman Stubby Gordon)
Conagher
Beyond the Sacramento
(Cannonball)
Flash and the Firecat
(Sheriff C.W. Thurston)
Menace on the Mountain
(Cicero Everhart)
Across the Sierras
(Cannonball)
Frontier Gunlaw
(Cannonball)
Outlaws of the Rockies
(Cannonball)
Rustlers of the Badlands
(Cannonball)
Cowboy in the Clouds
(Cannonball)
The Vigilantes Ride
(Cannonball Taylor)
North from the Lone Star
(Cannonball)
The Return of Wild Bill
(Cannonball)
The Hallelujah Trail
(Clayton Howell)
Pioneers of the Frontier
(Cannonball Simms)
A Tornado in the Saddle
(Cannonball)
King of Dodge City
(Cannonball Taylor)
The Lone Prairie
(Cannonball)
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
(Cannonball)
Wyoming Hurricane
(Doc 'Canonball' Jones)
Cowboy from Lonesome River
(Cannonball)
The Last Horseman
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
(Josh)
Sagebrush Heroes
(Cannonball)
Ridin' Down the Trail
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Sweet Bird of Youth
(Dan Hatcher)
Brand of Fear
(Cannonball)
Don't Make Waves
(Electrician)
Auntie Mame
(County Veterinarian (uncredited))
Hearts of the West
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The Wild Country
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Johnny Banco
Used Cars
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
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The Reivers
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Tanks a Million
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
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You Can't Run Away from It
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The Andy Griffith Show
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77 Sunset Strip
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Little House on the Prairie
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Love, American Style
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Surfside 6
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Lancer
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Hazel
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
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Custer
26 Men
Death Valley Days
(Rupert)
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Bonanza
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(Preacher)
Love, American Style
(Pa)
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(Mitch Brady)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
(Preacher)
The Virginian
(Runty Bojohn)
The Andy Griffith Show
(Preacher)
Ensign O'Toole
(Clerk)
The Andy Griffith Show
(Ben Beecham)
Gunsmoke
(Farnum)
Gunsmoke
(Cook)
Gunsmoke
(Bartender)
Gunsmoke
(Noah Riker)
Gunsmoke
(Rev. Finney Cox)
Lawman
(Chef's Assistant (uncredited))
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Harper - Auctioneer)
The High Chaparral
(Fargo Smith)
Bonanza
(Otto)
The Wild Wild West
(Guard)
Bonanza
(Luke Calhoun)
Bonanza
(Barlow)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
(Hogan)
Emergency!
(Old Man)
The Lloyd Bridges Show
(Freddy)
Emergency!
(George)
Chopper One
(Rudy)
The Westerner
(Walt Smith)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
77 Sunset Strip
(Man Tourist)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Purse)
Designing Women
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Fire Tender)
How the West Was Won
(Moss)
The Guns of Will Sonnett
(Henry Jackson)