Dub Taylor
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 26, 1907
- Died
- Oct 3, 1994 (aged 87)
- Place of birth
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Credits
- 218
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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
Back to the Future Part III
1990Movie
Saloon Old Timer
The Rescuers
1977Movie
Digger (voice)
Bonnie and Clyde
1967Movie
Ivan Moss
Maverick
1994Movie
Room Clerk
The Wild Bunch
1969Movie
Reverend Wainscoat
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939Movie
Reporter (uncredited)
Filmography
Maverick
1994Movie
Room Clerk
Falling from Grace
1992Movie
Grandpa Parks
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991Movie
The Westerner's Friend
Conagher
1991Movie
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991Movie
Gimme Cap
Back to the Future Part III
1990Movie
Saloon Old Timer
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988Movie
Charlie Lee
Designing Women
1986TV
The Best of Times
1986Movie
Mac
The Cosby Show
1984TV
Slim Claxton
The Outlaws
1984Movie
L.D. Sloane
Cannonball Run II
1984Movie
Police Officer
Bret Maverick
1981TV
Toothless Tim Teal
Darkroom
1981TV
Dixie Weeks
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981Movie
Cottonmouth Gorch
Used Cars
1980Movie
Tucker
1941
1979Movie
Mr. Malcomb
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978Movie
Gunner
Doc Hooker's Bunch
1978Movie
Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978Movie
Harley Davidson
Beartooth
1978Movie
The Rescuers
1977Movie
Digger (voice)
Moonshine County Express
1977Movie
Uncle Bill
Great Day
1977Movie
Doc
How the West Was Won
1977TV
Moss
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
1977Movie
Stableman
Pony Express Rider
1976Movie
Boomer Riley
Burnt Offerings
1976Movie
Walker
Gator
1976Movie
Mayor T.L. Caffery
Treasure of Matecumbe
1976Movie
Sheriff Forbes
The Winds of Autumn
1976Movie
Rattler S. Gravley
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976Movie
(archive footage)
Creature from Black Lake
1976Movie
Grandpaw Bridges
Hearts of the West
1975Movie
Nevada Ticket Agent
Poor Pretty Eddie
1975Movie
Justice of the Peace Floyd
Flash and the Firecat
1975Movie
Sheriff C.W. Thurston
The Fortune
1975Movie
Rattlesnake Tom
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
1975Movie
Bitteroot
Movin' On
1974TV
Little House on the Prairie
1974TV
Houston Lamb
Run, Joe, Run
1974TV
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974Movie
Station Attendant
Honky Tonk
1974Movie
Chopper One
1974TV
Rudy
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974Movie
Halsey
This Is a Hijack
1973Movie
Sheriff Gordon
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973Movie
Josh
Tom Sawyer
1973Movie
Clayton
Brock's Last Case
1973Movie
Judge Robbins
Country Blue
1973Movie
J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
The Getaway
1972Movie
Laughlin
The Brian Keith Show
1972TV
Junior Bonner
1972Movie
Del
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972Movie
Old Timer
Wild in the Sky
1972Movie
Officer Roddenberry
Emergency!
1972TV
Old Man, George
Evel Knievel
1971Movie
Turquoise Smith
Man and Boy
1971Movie
Atkins
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971Movie
Doc Schultz
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971Movie
Reed, the Lawyer
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
The Wild Country
1970Movie
Phil
The Partridge Family
1970TV
Flicker
The Odd Couple
1970TV
Slim
A Man Called Horse
1970Movie
Joe
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970Movie
Mayor
Menace on the Mountain
1970Movie
Cicero Everhart
… tick… tick… tick…
1970Movie
Junior
The Reivers
1969Movie
Dr. Peabody
The Undefeated
1969Movie
McCartney
Love, American Style
1969TV
Pa, Grover
The Learning Tree
1969Movie
Spikey
The Wild Bunch
1969Movie
Reverend Wainscoat
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Ray Tobias
Death of a Gunfighter
1969Movie
Doc Adams
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969Movie
Purse
Something for a Lonely Man
1968Movie
Sheriff
The Mod Squad
1968TV
Ed Levering
Lancer
1968TV
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968Movie
Pop Cushings
Bandolero!
1968Movie
Attendant
The Money Jungle
1967Movie
Pete Jensen
The High Chaparral
1967TV
Oscar Hipple, Fargo Smith
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967TV
Henry Jackson, Charley McQuade
Cimarron Strip
1967TV
Owley
Custer
1967TV
Bonnie and Clyde
1967Movie
Ivan Moss
Johnny Banco
1967Movie
Don't Make Waves
1967Movie
Electrician
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967Movie
Timekeeper
Mr. Terrific
1967TV
Preacher
The Monkees
1966TV
Paw
That Girl
1966TV
The Monroes
1966TV
The Cincinnati Kid
1965Movie
Dealer
The Loner
1965TV
Jim
The Wild Wild West
1965TV
Guard
Laredo
1965TV
The Big Valley
1965TV
Doc Tully
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965TV
Ed Hewley
The Hallelujah Trail
1965Movie
Clayton Howell
The Decorator
1965Movie
Taxi Driver
Major Dundee
1965Movie
Priam
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964TV
Preacher
Burke's Law
1963TV
Garnet
Temple Houston
1963TV
Cliff Willard
Spencer's Mountain
1963Movie
Percy Cook
The Losers
1963Movie
Gregory
Mooncussers
1962Movie
Fire Tender
How the West Was Won
1962Movie
Man (uncredited)
Period of Adjustment
1962Movie
Drunk (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
Ensign O'Toole
1962TV
Clerk
The Virginian
1962TV
Walt Cooper, Runty Bojohn
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962TV
Freddy
Black Gold
1962Movie
Doc
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962Movie
Dan Hatcher
The Beachcomber
1962TV
Pete Dibley
Pocketful of Miracles
1961Movie
Man (uncredited)
Hazel
1961TV
Mitch Brady
Parrish
1961Movie
Teet Howie
Surfside 6
1960TV
The Andy Griffith Show
1960TV
Billy Ray Talbot, Preacher, Ben Beecham
The Westerner
1960TV
Walt Smith
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960TV
George B. Glines
Home from the Hill
1960Movie
Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
Dennis the Menace
1959TV
Opie
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Peters
Wichita Town
1959TV
A Hole in the Head
1959Movie
Fred
Bonanza
1959TV
Simon, Otto, Luke Calhoun, Barlow
Auntie Mame
1958Movie
County Veterinarian (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV
Man Tourist
Lawman
1958TV
Chef's Assistant (uncredited), Bartender
Hot Rod Gang
1958Movie
Landlord
No Time for Sergeants
1958Movie
Mr. McKinney
Street of Darkness
1958Movie
Duffy Tyler
26 Men
1957TV
Casey Jones
1957TV
Wallie Sims
Perry Mason
1957TV
Stroller
You Can't Run Away from It
1956Movie
Joe
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Yancie, Harper - Auctioneer
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956Movie
Nolan Brown (uncredited)
I Died a Thousand Times
1955Movie
Ed (uncredited)
Cheyenne
1955TV
Hoyt
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Sonny Starr, Farnum, Cook, Bartender, Noah Riker, Rev. Finney Cox
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955TV
Hogan
Tall Man Riding
1955Movie
Townsman (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Purse, Fire Tender, Cicero Everhart
A Star Is Born
1954Movie
Norman's Driver (uncredited)
The Bounty Hunter
1954Movie
Eli Danvers (as Dubb Taylor)
Dragnet
1954Movie
Miller Starkie
Them!
1954Movie
Railroad Yard Watchman
Riding Shotgun
1954Movie
Eddie (uncredited)
Crime Wave
1953Movie
Gus Snider
Death Valley Days
1952TV
Rupert
I Love Lucy
1951TV
Rattlesnake Jones
Life with Buster Keaton
1951Movie
The Marshall of Trail City
1950Movie
Cannonball
Riding High
1950Movie
Joe
Lawless Code
1949Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Roaring Westward
1949Movie
Cannonball
Brand of Fear
1949Movie
Cannonball
Across The Rio Grande
1949Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Gun Law Justice
1949Movie
Cannonball
Gun Runner
1949Movie
Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
Courtin' Trouble
1948Movie
Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
1948Movie
Cannonball
Silver Trails
1948Movie
Cannonball
Cowboy Cavalier
1948Movie
Cannonball
Range Renegades
1948Movie
Cannonball
Partners of the Sunset
1948Movie
Cannonball
The Rangers Ride
1948Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Oklahoma Blues
1948Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Song of the Drifter
1948Movie
Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
1947Movie
Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
1946Movie
Cannonball
Texas Panhandle
1945Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Lawless Empire
1945Movie
Cannonball
Outlaws of the Rockies
1945Movie
Cannonball
Blazing the Western Trail
1945Movie
Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
1945Movie
Cannonball
Both Barrels Blazing
1945Movie
Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945Movie
Cannonball
Sagebrush Heroes
1945Movie
Cannonball
Saddle Leather Law
1944Movie
Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944Movie
Cannonball
Cowboy from Lonesome River
1944Movie
Cannonball
The Last Horseman
1944Movie
Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
1944Movie
Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Sundown Valley
1944Movie
Cannonball Boggs
Cowboy Canteen
1944Movie
Cannonball
Cowboy in the Clouds
1943Movie
Cannonball
The Vigilantes Ride
1943Movie
Cannonball Taylor
Minesweeper
1943Movie
Seaman Stubby Gordon
Silver City Raiders
1943Movie
Cannonball
Saddles and Sagebrush
1943Movie
Cannonball
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
1943Movie
Cannonball
A Tornado in the Saddle
1942Movie
Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
1942Movie
Cannonball
Tanks a Million
1941Movie
Malloy
King of Dodge City
1941Movie
Cannonball Taylor
The Son of Davy Crockett
1941Movie
Cannonball
Hands Across the Rockies
1941Movie
Cannonball Taylor
The Return of Daniel Boone
1941Movie
Cannonball
North from the Lone Star
1941Movie
Cannonball
Across the Sierras
1941Movie
Cannonball
The Wildcat of Tucson
1940Movie
Cannonball
Beyond the Sacramento
1940Movie
Cannonball
Prairie Schooners
1940Movie
Cannonball
One Man's Law
1940Movie
Nevady
The Return of Wild Bill
1940Movie
Cannonball
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940Movie
Cannonball
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940Movie
Cannonball Simms
Taming of the West
1939Movie
Cannonball
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939Movie
Reporter (uncredited)
Carefree
1938Movie
(uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
1938Movie
Ed Carmichael