Dub Taylor
Acting
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
Maverick
Room Clerk
Falling from Grace
Grandpa Parks
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
The Westerner's Friend
Conagher
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Gimme Cap
Back to the Future Part III
Saloon Old Timer
Once Upon a Texas Train
Charlie Lee
The Best of Times
Mac
The Outlaws
L.D. Sloane
Cannonball Run II
Police Officer
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
Cottonmouth Gorch
Used Cars
Tucker
1941
Mr. Malcomb
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Gunner
Doc Hooker's Bunch
Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Harley Davidson
Beartooth
The Rescuers
Digger (voice)
Moonshine County Express
Uncle Bill
Great Day
Doc
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
Stableman
Pony Express Rider
Boomer Riley
Burnt Offerings
Walker
Gator
Mayor T.L. Caffery
Treasure of Matecumbe
Sheriff Forbes
The Winds of Autumn
Rattler S. Gravley
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
Creature from Black Lake
Grandpaw Bridges
Hearts of the West
Nevada Ticket Agent
Poor Pretty Eddie
Justice of the Peace Floyd
Flash and the Firecat
Sheriff C.W. Thurston
The Fortune
Rattlesnake Tom
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Bitteroot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Station Attendant
Honky Tonk
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Halsey
This Is a Hijack
Sheriff Gordon
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Josh
Tom Sawyer
Clayton
Brock's Last Case
Judge Robbins
Country Blue
J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
The Getaway
Laughlin
Junior Bonner
Del
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
Old Timer
Wild in the Sky
Officer Roddenberry
Evel Knievel
Turquoise Smith
Man and Boy
Atkins
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Doc Schultz
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Reed, the Lawyer
The Wild Country
Phil
A Man Called Horse
Joe
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
Mayor
Menace on the Mountain
Cicero Everhart
… tick… tick… tick…
Junior
The Reivers
Dr. Peabody
The Undefeated
McCartney
The Learning Tree
Spikey
The Wild Bunch
Reverend Wainscoat
Death of a Gunfighter
Doc Adams
Ride a Northbound Horse
Purse
Something for a Lonely Man
Sheriff
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Pop Cushings
Bandolero!
Attendant
The Money Jungle
Pete Jensen
Bonnie and Clyde
Ivan Moss
Johnny Banco
Don't Make Waves
Electrician
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Timekeeper
The Cincinnati Kid
Dealer
The Hallelujah Trail
Clayton Howell
The Decorator
Taxi Driver
Major Dundee
Priam
Spencer's Mountain
Percy Cook
The Losers
Gregory
Mooncussers
Fire Tender
How the West Was Won
Man (uncredited)
Period of Adjustment
Drunk (uncredited)
Black Gold
Doc
Sweet Bird of Youth
Dan Hatcher
Pocketful of Miracles
Man (uncredited)
Parrish
Teet Howie
Home from the Hill
Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
A Hole in the Head
Fred
Auntie Mame
County Veterinarian (uncredited)
Hot Rod Gang
Landlord
No Time for Sergeants
Mr. McKinney
You Can't Run Away from It
Joe
The Fastest Gun Alive
Nolan Brown (uncredited)
I Died a Thousand Times
Ed (uncredited)
Tall Man Riding
Townsman (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Norman's Driver (uncredited)
The Bounty Hunter
Eli Danvers
Dragnet
Miller Starkie
Them!
Railroad Yard Watchman
Riding Shotgun
Eddie (uncredited)
Crime Wave
Gus Snider
Life with Buster Keaton
The Marshall of Trail City
Cannonball
Riding High
Joe
Lawless Code
Cannonball Taylor
Roaring Westward
Cannonball
Brand of Fear
Cannonball
Across The Rio Grande
Cannonball Taylor
Gun Law Justice
Cannonball
Gun Runner
Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
Courtin' Trouble
Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
Cannonball
Silver Trails
Cannonball
Cowboy Cavalier
Cannonball
Range Renegades
Cannonball
Partners of the Sunset
Cannonball
The Rangers Ride
Cannonball Taylor
Oklahoma Blues
Cannonball Taylor
Song of the Drifter
Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
Cannonball
Texas Panhandle
Cannonball Taylor
Lawless Empire
Cannonball
Outlaws of the Rockies
Cannonball
Blazing the Western Trail
Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
Cannonball
Both Barrels Blazing
Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
Cannonball
Sagebrush Heroes
Cannonball
Saddle Leather Law
Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Cannonball
Cowboy from Lonesome River
Cannonball
The Last Horseman
Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Sundown Valley
Cannonball Boggs
Cowboy Canteen
Cannonball
The Vigilantes Ride
Cannonball Taylor
Cowboy in the Clouds
Cannonball
Minesweeper
Seaman Stubby Gordon
Silver City Raiders
Cannonball
Saddles and Sagebrush
Cannonball
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Cannonball
A Tornado in the Saddle
Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
Cannonball
Tanks a Million
Malloy
King of Dodge City
Cannonball Taylor
The Son of Davy Crockett
Cannonball
Hands Across the Rockies
Cannonball Taylor
The Return of Daniel Boone
Cannonball
North from the Lone Star
Cannonball
Across the Sierras
Cannonball
The Wildcat of Tucson
Cannonball
Beyond the Sacramento
Cannonball
Prairie Schooners
Cannonball
One Man's Law
Nevady
The Return of Wild Bill
Cannonball
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Cannonball
Pioneers of the Frontier
Cannonball Simms
Taming of the West
Cannonball
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Reporter (uncredited)
Carefree
(uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
Ed Carmichael