Dub Taylor

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: Acting
Birthday: 1907-02-26
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Also Known As: Cannonball Taylor, Dubb Taylor, Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr., Walter Clarence Taylor Jr.

Movies List of Dub Taylor

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The Cincinnati Kid

1965 Movie
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Bonnie and Clyde

1967 Movie
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The Wild Bunch

1969 Movie
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The Getaway

1972 Movie
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The Best of Times

1986 Movie
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1941

1979 Movie
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The Rescuers

1977 Movie
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Cannonball Run II

1984 Movie
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Maverick

1994 Movie
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Burnt Offerings

1976 Movie
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Parrish

1961 Movie
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The Outlaws

1984 Movie
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A Man Called Horse

1970 Movie
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Spencer's Mountain

1963 Movie
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Poor Pretty Eddie

1975 Movie
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Great Day

1977 Movie
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Pocketful of Miracles

1961 Movie
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How the West Was Won

1962 Movie
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No Time for Sergeants

1958 Movie
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Crime Wave

1953 Movie
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Falling from Grace

1992 Movie
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The Fortune

1975 Movie
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Country Blue

1973 Movie
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Death of a Gunfighter

1969 Movie
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Tall Man Riding

1955 Movie
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Hot Rod Gang

1958 Movie
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Major Dundee

1965 Movie
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Riding High

1950 Movie
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Man and Boy

1971 Movie
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The Bounty Hunter

1954 Movie
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Evel Knievel

1971 Movie
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One Man's Law

1940 Movie
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Gun Law Justice

1949 Movie
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Across The Rio Grande

1949 Movie
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Black Gold

1962 Movie
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A Hole in the Head

1959 Movie
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Dragnet

1954 Movie
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The Losers

1963 Movie
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Beartooth

1978 Movie
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Junior Bonner

1972 Movie
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The Decorator

1965 Movie
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Wild in the Sky

1972 Movie
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Gun Runner

1949 Movie
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Outlaw Brand

1948 Movie
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Lawless Code

1949 Movie
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

1981 Movie
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Song of the Drifter

1948 Movie
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Range Renegades

1948 Movie
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Period of Adjustment

1962 Movie
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Tom Sawyer

1973 Movie
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Gator

1976 Movie
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This Is a Hijack

1973 Movie
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Them!

1954 Movie
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A Star Is Born

1954 Movie
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The Money Jungle

1967 Movie
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Courtin' Trouble

1948 Movie
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The Rangers Ride

1948 Movie
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Treasure of Matecumbe

1976 Movie
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Pony Express Rider

1976 Movie
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Roaring Westward

1949 Movie
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Sundown Valley

1944 Movie
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Saddle Leather Law

1944 Movie
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Saddles and Sagebrush

1943 Movie
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Silver Trails

1948 Movie
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Rough Ridin' Justice

1945 Movie
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Both Barrels Blazing

1945 Movie
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Bandolero!

1968 Movie
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Oklahoma Blues

1948 Movie
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Cowboy Cavalier

1948 Movie
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The Wildcat of Tucson

1940 Movie
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Home from the Hill

1960 Movie
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The Undefeated

1969 Movie
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The Delphi Bureau

1972 Movie
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Prairie Schooners

1940 Movie
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Brock's Last Case

1973 Movie
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The Learning Tree

1969 Movie
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Cowboy Canteen

1944 Movie
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The Fastest Gun Alive

1956 Movie
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Lawless Empire

1945 Movie
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Texas Panhandle

1945 Movie
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Silver City Raiders

1943 Movie
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Minesweeper

1943 Movie
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Conagher

1991 Movie
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Beyond the Sacramento

1940 Movie
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Flash and the Firecat

1975 Movie
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Across the Sierras

1941 Movie
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Frontier Gunlaw

1946 Movie
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Cowboy in the Clouds

1943 Movie
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The Vigilantes Ride

1943 Movie
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The Hallelujah Trail

1965 Movie
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King of Dodge City

1941 Movie
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The Lone Prairie

1942 Movie
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Wyoming Hurricane

1944 Movie
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The Last Horseman

1944 Movie
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Sagebrush Heroes

1945 Movie
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Ridin' Down the Trail

1947 Movie
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Sweet Bird of Youth

1962 Movie
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Brand of Fear

1949 Movie
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Don't Make Waves

1967 Movie
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Auntie Mame

1958 Movie
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Hearts of the West

1975 Movie
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The Wild Country

1970 Movie
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Johnny Banco

1967 Movie
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Used Cars

1980 Movie
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The Reivers

1969 Movie
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Tanks a Million

1941 Movie
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The Winds of Autumn

1976 Movie
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Honky Tonk

1974 Movie
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Carefree

1938 Movie
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Mooncussers

1962 Movie