Dub Taylor
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 26, 1907
- Died
- October 3, 1994 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- 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
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Filmography
Maverick
Movie · as Room Clerk
Falling from Grace
Movie · as Grandpa Parks
Conagher
Movie
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Movie · as Gimme Cap
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Movie · as The Westerner's Friend
Back to the Future Part III
Movie · as Saloon Old Timer
Once Upon a Texas Train
Movie · as Charlie Lee
The Best of Times
Movie · as Mac
Designing Women
TV · 2 eps
Cannonball Run II
Movie · as Police Officer
The Outlaws
Movie · as L.D. Sloane
The Cosby Show
TV · as Slim Claxton · 1 ep
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Movie · as Cottonmouth Gorch
Bret Maverick
TV · as Toothless Tim Teal · 1 ep
Darkroom
TV · as Dixie Weeks · 1 ep
Used Cars
Movie · as Tucker
1941
Movie · as Mr. Malcomb
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie · as Gunner
Beartooth
Movie
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Movie · as Harley Davidson
Doc Hooker's Bunch
Movie · as Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Rescuers
Movie · as Digger (voice)
Great Day
Movie · as Doc
Moonshine County Express
Movie · as Uncle Bill
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
Movie · as Stableman
How the West Was Won
TV · as Moss · 1 ep
Burnt Offerings
Movie · as Walker
Creature from Black Lake
Movie · as Grandpaw Bridges
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Movie · as (archive footage)
Gator
Movie · as Mayor T.L. Caffery
Treasure of Matecumbe
Movie · as Sheriff Forbes
Pony Express Rider
Movie · as Boomer Riley
The Winds of Autumn
Movie · as Rattler S. Gravley
Poor Pretty Eddie
Movie · as Justice of the Peace Floyd
The Fortune
Movie · as Rattlesnake Tom
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Movie · as Bitteroot
Flash and the Firecat
Movie · as Sheriff C.W. Thurston
Hearts of the West
Movie · as Nevada Ticket Agent
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Movie · as Station Attendant
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Movie · as Halsey
Honky Tonk
Movie
Movin' On
TV · 1 ep
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Houston Lamb · 4 eps
Run, Joe, Run
TV · 1 ep
Chopper One
TV · as Rudy · 1 ep
Country Blue
Movie · as J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
Tom Sawyer
Movie · as Clayton
This Is a Hijack
Movie · as Sheriff Gordon
Brock's Last Case
Movie · as Judge Robbins
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie · as Josh
The Getaway
Movie · as Laughlin
Junior Bonner
Movie · as Del
Wild in the Sky
Movie · as Officer Roddenberry
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
Movie · as Old Timer
The Brian Keith Show
TV · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · as Old Man, George · 1 ep
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie · as Doc Schultz
Man and Boy
Movie · as Atkins
Evel Knievel
Movie · as Turquoise Smith
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Movie · as Reed, the Lawyer
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 2 eps
A Man Called Horse
Movie · as Joe
… tick… tick… tick…
Movie · as Junior
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Movie · as Mayor
Menace on the Mountain
Movie · as Cicero Everhart
The Wild Country
Movie · as Phil
The Odd Couple
TV · as Slim · 1 ep
The Partridge Family
TV · as Flicker · 1 ep
The Wild Bunch
Movie · as Reverend Wainscoat
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie · as Doc Adams
Ride a Northbound Horse
Movie · as Purse
The Undefeated
Movie · as McCartney
The Learning Tree
Movie · as Spikey
The Reivers
Movie · as Dr. Peabody
Love, American Style
TV · as Pa, Grover · 1 ep
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Ray Tobias · 1 ep
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Movie · as Pop Cushings
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie · as Sheriff
Bandolero!
Movie · as Attendant
The Mod Squad
TV · as Ed Levering · 1 ep
Lancer
TV · 2 eps
Bonnie and Clyde
Movie · as Ivan Moss
The Money Jungle
Movie · as Pete Jensen
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Movie · as Timekeeper
Don't Make Waves
Movie · as Electrician
Johnny Banco
Movie
The High Chaparral
TV · as Oscar Hipple, Fargo Smith · 1 ep
Custer
TV · 1 ep
Mr. Terrific
TV · as Preacher · 1 ep
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · as Henry Jackson, Charley McQuade · 1 ep
Cimarron Strip
TV · as Owley · 1 ep
That Girl
TV · 1 ep
The Monroes
TV · 2 eps
The Monkees
TV · as Paw · 1 ep
The Cincinnati Kid
Movie · as Dealer
Major Dundee
Movie · as Priam
The Decorator
Movie · as Taxi Driver
The Hallelujah Trail
Movie · as Clayton Howell
Laredo
TV · 2 eps
The Big Valley
TV · as Doc Tully · 1 ep
The Loner
TV · as Jim · 1 ep
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
TV · as Ed Hewley · 58 eps
The Wild Wild West
TV · as Guard · 1 ep
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Preacher · 1 ep
Spencer's Mountain
Movie · as Percy Cook
The Losers
Movie · as Gregory
Burke's Law
TV · as Garnet · 1 ep
Temple Houston
TV · as Cliff Willard · 1 ep
How the West Was Won
Movie · as Man (uncredited)
Black Gold
Movie · as Doc
Period of Adjustment
Movie · as Drunk (uncredited)
Sweet Bird of Youth
Movie · as Dan Hatcher
Mooncussers
Movie · as Fire Tender
The Beachcomber
TV · as Pete Dibley · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Walt Cooper, Runty Bojohn · 1 ep
Ensign O'Toole
TV · as Clerk · 1 ep
The Lloyd Bridges Show
TV · as Freddy · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Parrish
Movie · as Teet Howie
Pocketful of Miracles
Movie · as Man (uncredited)
Hazel
TV · as Mitch Brady · 2 eps
Home from the Hill
Movie · as Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
The Andy Griffith Show
TV · as Billy Ray Talbot, Preacher, Ben Beecham · 2 eps
Surfside 6
TV · 1 ep
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as George B. Glines · 1 ep
The Westerner
TV · as Walt Smith · 1 ep
A Hole in the Head
Movie · as Fred
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Peters · 1 ep
Dennis the Menace
TV · as Opie · 3 eps
Wichita Town
TV · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Simon, Otto, Luke Calhoun, Barlow · 1 ep
No Time for Sergeants
Movie · as Mr. McKinney
Hot Rod Gang
Movie · as Landlord
Auntie Mame
Movie · as County Veterinarian (uncredited)
Street of Darkness
Movie · as Duffy Tyler
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Man Tourist · 1 ep
Lawman
TV · as Chef's Assistant (uncredited), Bartender · 1 ep
Perry Mason
TV · as Stroller · 1 ep
Casey Jones
TV · as Wallie Sims · 32 eps
26 Men
TV · 1 ep
The Fastest Gun Alive
Movie · as Nolan Brown (uncredited)
You Can't Run Away from It
Movie · as Joe
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Yancie, Harper - Auctioneer · 1 ep
Tall Man Riding
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
I Died a Thousand Times
Movie · as Ed (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV · as Hoyt · 1 ep
Gunsmoke
TV · as Sonny Starr, Cook, Bartender, Farnum, Noah Riker, Rev. Finney Cox · 1 ep
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · as Hogan · 1 ep
The Bounty Hunter
Movie · as Eli Danvers (as Dubb Taylor)
Dragnet
Movie · as Miller Starkie
Them!
Movie · as Railroad Yard Watchman
A Star Is Born
Movie · as Norman's Driver (uncredited)
Riding Shotgun
Movie · as Eddie (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Purse, Fire Tender, Cicero Everhart · 2 eps
Crime Wave
Movie · as Gus Snider
Death Valley Days
TV · as Rupert · 1 ep
Life with Buster Keaton
Movie
I Love Lucy
TV · as Rattlesnake Jones · 1 ep
Riding High
Movie · as Joe
The Marshall of Trail City
Movie · as Cannonball
Gun Law Justice
Movie · as Cannonball
Across The Rio Grande
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Gun Runner
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
Lawless Code
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Roaring Westward
Movie · as Cannonball
Brand of Fear
Movie · as Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
Movie · as Cannonball
Song of the Drifter
Movie · as Cannonball
Range Renegades
Movie · as Cannonball
Courtin' Trouble
Movie · as Cannonball
The Rangers Ride
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Partners of the Sunset
Movie · as Cannonball
Silver Trails
Movie · as Cannonball
Oklahoma Blues
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Cowboy Cavalier
Movie · as Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
Movie · as Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
Movie · as Cannonball
Both Barrels Blazing
Movie · as Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
Movie · as Cannonball
Blazing the Western Trail
Movie · as Cannonball
Lawless Empire
Movie · as Cannonball
Texas Panhandle
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Outlaws of the Rockies
Movie · as Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
Movie · as Cannonball
Sagebrush Heroes
Movie · as Cannonball
Sundown Valley
Movie · as Cannonball Boggs
Saddle Leather Law
Movie · as Cannonball
Cowboy Canteen
Movie · as Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Movie · as Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
Movie · as Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Movie · as Cannonball
The Last Horseman
Movie · as Cannonball
Saddles and Sagebrush
Movie · as Cannonball
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Movie · as Cannonball
Silver City Raiders
Movie · as Cannonball
Minesweeper
Movie · as Seaman Stubby Gordon
Cowboy in the Clouds
Movie · as Cannonball
The Vigilantes Ride
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
A Tornado in the Saddle
Movie · as Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
Movie · as Cannonball
The Return of Daniel Boone
Movie · as Cannonball
Hands Across the Rockies
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
The Son of Davy Crockett
Movie · as Cannonball
Across the Sierras
Movie · as Cannonball
North from the Lone Star
Movie · as Cannonball
King of Dodge City
Movie · as Cannonball Taylor
Tanks a Million
Movie · as Malloy
One Man's Law
Movie · as Nevady
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Movie · as Cannonball
The Wildcat of Tucson
Movie · as Cannonball
Prairie Schooners
Movie · as Cannonball
Beyond the Sacramento
Movie · as Cannonball
The Return of Wild Bill
Movie · as Cannonball
Pioneers of the Frontier
Movie · as Cannonball Simms
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)
Taming of the West
Movie · as Cannonball
You Can't Take It with You
Movie · as Ed Carmichael
Carefree
Movie · as (uncredited)