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
Known For
Credits
- 1994 · Maverick as Room Clerk
- 1992 · Falling from Grace as Grandpa Parks
- 1991 · Conagher as
- 1991 · My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys as Gimme Cap
- 1990 · Back to the Future Part III as Saloon Old Timer
- 1988 · Once Upon a Texas Train as Charlie Lee
- 1986 · Designing Women as
- 1986 · The Best of Times as Mac
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Slim Claxton
- 1984 · The Outlaws as L.D. Sloane
- 1984 · Cannonball Run II as Police Officer
- 1981 · Bret Maverick as
- 1981 · Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. as Cottonmouth Gorch
- 1980 · Used Cars as Tucker
- 1979 · 1941 as Mr. Malcomb
- 1978 · They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Gunner
- 1978 · The Great Smokey Roadblock as Harley Davidson
- 1978 · Beartooth as
- 1977 · The Rescuers as Digger (voice)
- 1977 · Moonshine County Express as Uncle Bill
- 1977 · Great Day as Doc
- 1977 · How the West Was Won as Moss
- 1977 · Kit Carson and the Mountain Men as Stableman
- 1976 · Pony Express Rider as Boomer Riley
- 1976 · Burnt Offerings as Walker
- 1976 · Gator as Mayor T.L. Caffery
- 1976 · Treasure of Matecumbe as Sheriff Forbes
- 1976 · The Winds of Autumn as Rattler S. Gravley
- 1976 · Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch as (archive footage)
- 1976 · Creature from Black Lake as Grandpaw Bridges
- 1975 · Hearts of the West as Nevada Ticket Agent
- 1975 · Poor Pretty Eddie as Justice of the Peace Floyd
- 1975 · Flash and the Firecat as Sheriff C.W. Thurston
- 1975 · The Fortune as Rattlesnake Tom
- 1975 · The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return as Bitteroot
- 1974 · Little House on the Prairie as
- 1974 · Run, Joe, Run as
- 1974 · Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Station Attendant
- 1974 · Movin' On as
- 1974 · Honky Tonk as
- 1974 · Chopper One as Rudy
- 1974 · Shootout in a One-Dog Town as Halsey
- 1973 · This Is a Hijack as Sheriff Gordon
- 1973 · Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Josh
- 1973 · Tom Sawyer as Clayton
- 1973 · Brock's Last Case as Judge Robbins
- 1973 · Country Blue as J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
- 1972 · The Getaway as Laughlin
- 1972 · The Brian Keith Show as
- 1972 · Junior Bonner as Del
- 1972 · The Delphi Bureau as Old Timer
- 1972 · Wild in the Sky as Officer Roddenberry
- 1972 · Emergency! as Old Man
- 1972 · Emergency! as George
- 1971 · Evel Knievel as Turquoise Smith
- 1971 · Man and Boy as Atkins
- 1971 · Support Your Local Gunfighter as Doc Schultz
- 1971 · Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Reed, the Lawyer
- 1971 · Alias Smith and Jones as
- 1970 · The Wild Country as Phil
- 1970 · The Odd Couple as Slim
- 1970 · A Man Called Horse as Joe
- 1970 · The Liberation of L.B. Jones as Mayor
- 1970 · Menace on the Mountain as Cicero Everhart
- 1970 · Tick... Tick... Tick... as Junior
- 1969 · The Reivers as Dr. Peabody
- 1969 · The Undefeated as McCartney
- 1969 · Love, American Style as
- 1969 · Love, American Style as Pa
- 1969 · The Learning Tree as Spikey
- 1969 · The Wild Bunch as Reverend Wainscoat
- 1969 · Death of a Gunfighter as Doc Adams
- 1969 · Ride a Northbound Horse as Purse
- 1968 · Something for a Lonely Man as Sheriff
- 1968 · Lancer as
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Ray Tobias
- 1968 · The Shakiest Gun in the West as Pop Cushings
- 1968 · Bandolero! as Attendant
- 1967 · The Money Jungle as Pete Jensen
- 1967 · The High Chaparral as Oscar Hipple
- 1967 · The High Chaparral as Fargo Smith
- 1967 · The Guns of Will Sonnett as
- 1967 · The Guns of Will Sonnett as Henry Jackson
- 1967 · Cimarron Strip as
- 1967 · Custer as
- 1967 · Bonnie and Clyde as Ivan Moss
- 1967 · Johnny Banco as
- 1967 · Don't Make Waves as Electrician
- 1967 · The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin as Timekeeper
- 1967 · Mr. Terrific as Preacher
- 1966 · The Monkees as
- 1966 · That Girl as
- 1966 · The Monroes as
- 1965 · The Cincinnati Kid as Dealer
- 1965 · The Loner as Jim
- 1965 · The Wild Wild West as Guard
- 1965 · Laredo as
- 1965 · The Big Valley as Doc Tully
- 1965 · Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Ed Hewley
- 1965 · The Hallelujah Trail as Clayton Howell
- 1965 · The Decorator as Taxi Driver
- 1965 · Major Dundee as Priam
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Preacher
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Garnet
- 1963 · Spencer's Mountain as Percy Cook
- 1963 · The Losers as Gregory
- 1962 · Mooncussers as Fire Tender
- 1962 · How the West Was Won as Man (uncredited)
- 1962 · Period of Adjustment as Drunk (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · Ensign O'Toole as Clerk
- 1962 · The Virginian as Walt Cooper
- 1962 · The Virginian as Runty Bojohn
- 1962 · The Lloyd Bridges Show as Freddy
- 1962 · Black Gold as Doc
- 1962 · Sweet Bird of Youth as Dan Hatcher
- 1962 · The Beachcomber as Pete Dibley
- 1961 · Pocketful of Miracles as Man (uncredited)
- 1961 · Hazel as
- 1961 · Hazel as Mitch Brady
- 1961 · Parrish as Teet Howie
- 1960 · Surfside 6 as
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Billy Ray Talbot
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Preacher
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Ben Beecham
- 1960 · The Westerner as Walt Smith
- 1960 · The Barbara Stanwyck Show as George B. Glines
- 1960 · Home from the Hill as Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
- 1959 · Dennis the Menace as Opie
- 1959 · The Twilight Zone as Peters
- 1959 · Wichita Town as
- 1959 · A Hole in the Head as Fred
- 1959 · Bonanza as Simon
- 1959 · Bonanza as Otto
- 1959 · Bonanza as Luke Calhoun
- 1959 · Bonanza as Barlow
- 1958 · Auntie Mame as County Veterinarian (uncredited)
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as Man Tourist
- 1958 · Lawman as
- 1958 · Lawman as Chef's Assistant (uncredited)
- 1958 · Hot Rod Gang as Landlord
- 1958 · No Time for Sergeants as Mr. McKinney
- 1957 · 26 Men as
- 1957 · Casey Jones as Wallie Sims
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Stroller
- 1956 · You Can't Run Away from It as Joe
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Yancie
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Harper - Auctioneer
- 1956 · The Fastest Gun Alive as Nolan Brown (uncredited)
- 1955 · I Died a Thousand Times as Ed (uncredited)
- 1955 · Cheyenne as Hoyt
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Sonny Starr
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Cook
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Bartender
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Farnum
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Noah Riker
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Rev. Finney Cox
- 1955 · The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Hogan
- 1955 · Tall Man Riding as Townsman (uncredited)
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as Purse
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as Fire Tender
- 1954 · A Star Is Born as Norman's Driver (uncredited)
- 1954 · The Bounty Hunter as Eli Danvers
- 1954 · Dragnet as Miller Starkie
- 1954 · Them! as Railroad Yard Watchman
- 1953 · Crime Wave as Gus Snider
- 1952 · Death Valley Days as Rupert
- 1951 · I Love Lucy as Rattlesnake Jones
- 1951 · Life with Buster Keaton as
- 1950 · The Marshall of Trail City as Cannonball
- 1950 · Riding High as Joe
- 1949 · Lawless Code as Cannonball Taylor
- 1949 · Roaring Westward as Cannonball
- 1949 · Brand of Fear as Cannonball
- 1949 · Across The Rio Grande as Cannonball Taylor
- 1949 · Gun Law Justice as Cannonball
- 1949 · Gun Runner as Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
- 1948 · Courtin' Trouble as Cannonball
- 1948 · Outlaw Brand as Cannonball
- 1948 · Silver Trails as Cannonball
- 1948 · Cowboy Cavalier as Cannonball
- 1948 · Range Renegades as Cannonball
- 1948 · Partners of the Sunset as Cannonball
- 1948 · The Rangers Ride as Cannonball Taylor
- 1948 · Oklahoma Blues as Cannonball Taylor
- 1948 · Song of the Drifter as Cannonball
- 1947 · Ridin' Down the Trail as Cannonball
- 1946 · Frontier Gunlaw as Cannonball
- 1945 · Texas Panhandle as Cannonball Taylor
- 1945 · Lawless Empire as Cannonball
- 1945 · Outlaws of the Rockies as Cannonball
- 1945 · Blazing the Western Trail as Cannonball
- 1945 · Rustlers of the Badlands as Cannonball
- 1945 · Both Barrels Blazing as Cannonball
- 1945 · Rough Ridin' Justice as Cannonball
- 1945 · Sagebrush Heroes as Cannonball
- 1944 · Saddle Leather Law as Cannonball
- 1944 · Cyclone Prairie Rangers as Cannonball
- 1944 · Cowboy from Lonesome River as Cannonball
- 1944 · The Last Horseman as Cannonball
- 1944 · Wyoming Hurricane as Doc 'Canonball' Jones
- 1944 · Sundown Valley as Cannonball Boggs
- 1944 · Cowboy Canteen as Cannonball
- 1943 · Cowboy in the Clouds as Cannonball
- 1943 · The Vigilantes Ride as Cannonball Taylor
- 1943 · Minesweeper as Seaman Stubby Gordon
- 1943 · Silver City Raiders as Cannonball
- 1943 · Saddles and Sagebrush as Cannonball
- 1943 · Riders of the Northwest Mounted as Cannonball
- 1942 · A Tornado in the Saddle as Cannonball
- 1942 · The Lone Prairie as Cannonball
- 1941 · Tanks a Million as Malloy
- 1941 · King of Dodge City as Cannonball Taylor
- 1941 · The Son of Davy Crockett as Cannonball
- 1941 · Hands Across the Rockies as Cannonball Taylor
- 1941 · The Return of Daniel Boone as Cannonball
- 1941 · North from the Lone Star as Cannonball
- 1941 · Across the Sierras as Cannonball
- 1940 · The Wildcat of Tucson as Cannonball
- 1940 · Beyond the Sacramento as Cannonball
- 1940 · Prairie Schooners as Cannonball
- 1940 · One Man's Law as Nevady
- 1940 · The Return of Wild Bill as Cannonball
- 1940 · The Man from Tumbleweeds as Cannonball
- 1940 · Pioneers of the Frontier as Cannonball Simms
- 1939 · The Taming of the West as Cannonball
- 1939 · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Reporter (uncredited)
- 1938 · Carefree as Bit Part (uncredited)
- 1938 · You Can't Take It with You as Ed Carmichael