Dub Taylor
1907-02-26 ( 118 years old ) in Richmond, Virginia, USA

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

Movies

Maverick 1994-05-20
Falling from Grace 1992-02-21
The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw 1991-11-03
Conagher 1991-07-01
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1991-03-01
Back to the Future Part III 1990-05-25
Once Upon a Texas Train 1988-10-12
The Best of Times 1986-01-31
The Outlaws 1984-07-09
Cannonball Run II 1984-06-29
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. 1981-10-09
Used Cars 1980-07-11
1941 1979-12-14
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way 1978-12-01
Doc Hooker's Bunch 1978-07-11
The Great Smokey Roadblock 1978-06-21
Beartooth 1978-01-02
The Rescuers 1977-06-22
Moonshine County Express 1977-06-01
Great Day 1977-05-23
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men 1977-01-09
Pony Express Rider 1976-11-01
Burnt Offerings 1976-10-18
Gator 1976-08-25
Treasure of Matecumbe 1976-07-01
The Winds of Autumn 1976-06-01
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch 1976-05-01
Creature from Black Lake 1976-03-01
Hearts of the West 1975-10-08
Poor Pretty Eddie 1975-06-01
Flash and the Firecat 1975-05-31
The Fortune 1975-05-20
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return 1975-01-28
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974-05-23
Honky Tonk 1974-04-01
Shootout in a One-Dog Town 1974-01-09
This Is a Hijack 1973-06-01
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973-05-23
Tom Sawyer 1973-03-15
Brock's Last Case 1973-03-05
Country Blue 1973-01-01
The Getaway 1972-12-13
Junior Bonner 1972-08-02
The Delphi Bureau 1972-03-06
Wild in the Sky 1972-03-01
Evel Knievel 1971-09-10
Man and Boy 1971-06-23
Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971-05-26
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? 1971-02-01
The Wild Country 1970-12-16
A Man Called Horse 1970-05-01
The Liberation of L.B. Jones 1970-03-18
Menace on the Mountain 1970-03-01
Tick... Tick... Tick... 1970-01-09
The Reivers 1969-12-20
The Undefeated 1969-10-04
The Learning Tree 1969-08-06
The Wild Bunch 1969-06-19
Death of a Gunfighter 1969-05-08
Ride a Northbound Horse 1969-03-16
Something for a Lonely Man 1968-11-26
The Shakiest Gun in the West 1968-07-10
Bandolero! 1968-06-01
The Money Jungle 1967-12-15
Bonnie and Clyde 1967-08-13
Johnny Banco 1967-08-10
Don't Make Waves 1967-06-20
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin 1967-03-08
The Cincinnati Kid 1965-10-15
The Hallelujah Trail 1965-06-23
The Decorator 1965-06-09
Major Dundee 1965-03-15
Spencer's Mountain 1963-05-16
The Losers 1963-01-15
Mooncussers 1962-12-02
How the West Was Won 1962-11-02
Period of Adjustment 1962-10-31
Black Gold 1962-07-21
Sweet Bird of Youth 1962-03-21
Pocketful of Miracles 1961-12-18
Parrish 1961-05-04
Home from the Hill 1960-03-03
A Hole in the Head 1959-09-15
Auntie Mame 1958-12-04
Hot Rod Gang 1958-08-01
No Time for Sergeants 1958-07-05
You Can't Run Away from It 1956-10-30
The Fastest Gun Alive 1956-07-12
I Died a Thousand Times 1955-11-09
Tall Man Riding 1955-06-18
A Star Is Born 1954-10-01
The Bounty Hunter 1954-09-25
Dragnet 1954-09-04
Them! 1954-06-16
Crime Wave 1953-10-22
Life with Buster Keaton 1951-02-10
The Marshall of Trail City 1950-05-10
Riding High 1950-04-12
Lawless Code 1949-12-04
Roaring Westward 1949-09-14
Brand of Fear 1949-07-10
Across The Rio Grande 1949-05-14
Gun Law Justice 1949-03-13
Gun Runner 1949-01-30
Courtin' Trouble 1948-11-21
Outlaw Brand 1948-10-24
Silver Trails 1948-08-21
Cowboy Cavalier 1948-07-11
Range Renegades 1948-06-06
Partners of the Sunset 1948-05-05
The Rangers Ride 1948-04-25
Oklahoma Blues 1948-03-28
Song of the Drifter 1948-01-17
Ridin' Down the Trail 1947-10-03
Frontier Gunlaw 1946-01-31
Texas Panhandle 1945-12-20
Lawless Empire 1945-11-15
Outlaws of the Rockies 1945-09-18
Blazing the Western Trail 1945-09-08
Rustlers of the Badlands 1945-08-16
Both Barrels Blazing 1945-05-16
Rough Ridin' Justice 1945-03-14
Sagebrush Heroes 1945-02-01
Saddle Leather Law 1944-12-21
Cyclone Prairie Rangers 1944-11-09
Cowboy from Lonesome River 1944-09-21
The Last Horseman 1944-06-22
Wyoming Hurricane 1944-04-20
Sundown Valley 1944-03-23
Cowboy Canteen 1944-02-09
Cowboy in the Clouds 1943-12-23
The Vigilantes Ride 1943-12-23
Minesweeper 1943-11-10
Silver City Raiders 1943-11-04
Saddles and Sagebrush 1943-04-26
Riders of the Northwest Mounted 1943-02-15
A Tornado in the Saddle 1942-12-15
The Lone Prairie 1942-10-15
Tanks a Million 1941-09-12
King of Dodge City 1941-08-14
The Son of Davy Crockett 1941-07-15
Hands Across the Rockies 1941-06-19
The Return of Daniel Boone 1941-05-07
North from the Lone Star 1941-03-30
Across the Sierras 1941-02-13
The Wildcat of Tucson 1940-12-31
Beyond the Sacramento 1940-11-11
Prairie Schooners 1940-09-29
One Man's Law 1940-06-29
The Return of Wild Bill 1940-06-26
The Man from Tumbleweeds 1940-05-02
Pioneers of the Frontier 1940-02-14
The Taming of the West 1939-12-07
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939-10-19
Carefree 1938-09-02
You Can't Take It with You 1938-09-01

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