Dub Taylor

Also Known As: Cannonball Taylor, Dubb Taylor, Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr., Walter Clarence Taylor Jr.

Biography: 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

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: February 26, 1907

Age: 118 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: October 03, 1994

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Known For:

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