Dub Taylor
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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
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Películas (158)
Maverick
1994 · Room Clerk
Falling from Grace
1992 · Grandpa Parks
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991 · The Westerner's Friend
Conagher
1991
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991 · Gimme Cap
Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Saloon Old Timer
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988 · Charlie Lee
The Best of Times
1986 · Mac
The Outlaws
1984 · L.D. Sloane
Cannonball Run II
1984 · Police Officer
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981 · Cottonmouth Gorch
Used Cars
1980 · Tucker
1941
1979 · Mr. Malcomb
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978 · Gunner
Doc Hooker's Bunch
1978 · Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978 · Harley Davidson
Beartooth
1978
The Rescuers
1977 · Digger (voice)
Moonshine County Express
1977 · Uncle Bill
Great Day
1977 · Doc
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
1977 · Stableman
Pony Express Rider
1976 · Boomer Riley
Burnt Offerings
1976 · Walker
Gator
1976 · Mayor T.L. Caffery
Treasure of Matecumbe
1976 · Sheriff Forbes
The Winds of Autumn
1976 · Rattler S. Gravley
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976 · (archive footage)
Creature from Black Lake
1976 · Grandpaw Bridges
Hearts of the West
1975 · Nevada Ticket Agent
Poor Pretty Eddie
1975 · Justice of the Peace Floyd
Flash and the Firecat
1975 · Sheriff C.W. Thurston
The Fortune
1975 · Rattlesnake Tom
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
1975 · Bitteroot
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · Station Attendant
Honky Tonk
1974
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974 · Halsey
This Is a Hijack
1973 · Sheriff Gordon
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Josh
Tom Sawyer
1973 · Clayton
Brock's Last Case
1973 · Judge Robbins
Country Blue
1973 · J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
The Getaway
1972 · Laughlin
Junior Bonner
1972 · Del
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972 · Old Timer
Wild in the Sky
1972 · Officer Roddenberry
Evel Knievel
1971 · Turquoise Smith
Man and Boy
1971 · Atkins
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971 · Doc Schultz
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971 · Reed, the Lawyer
The Wild Country
1970 · Phil
A Man Called Horse
1970 · Joe
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970 · Mayor
Menace on the Mountain
1970 · Cicero Everhart
… tick… tick… tick…
1970 · Junior
The Reivers
1969 · Dr. Peabody
The Undefeated
1969 · McCartney
The Learning Tree
1969 · Spikey
The Wild Bunch
1969 · Reverend Wainscoat
Death of a Gunfighter
1969 · Doc Adams
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969 · Purse
Something for a Lonely Man
1968 · Sheriff
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968 · Pop Cushings
Bandolero!
1968 · Attendant
The Money Jungle
1967 · Pete Jensen
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Ivan Moss
Johnny Banco
1967
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Electrician
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967 · Timekeeper
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 · Dealer
The Hallelujah Trail
1965 · Clayton Howell
The Decorator
1965 · Taxi Driver
Major Dundee
1965 · Priam
Spencer's Mountain
1963 · Percy Cook
The Losers
1963 · Gregory
Mooncussers
1962 · Fire Tender
How the West Was Won
1962 · Man (uncredited)
Period of Adjustment
1962 · Drunk (uncredited)
Black Gold
1962 · Doc
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 · Dan Hatcher
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Man (uncredited)
Parrish
1961 · Teet Howie
Home from the Hill
1960 · Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
A Hole in the Head
1959 · Fred
Auntie Mame
1958 · County Veterinarian (uncredited)
Hot Rod Gang
1958 · Landlord
No Time for Sergeants
1958 · Mr. McKinney
Street of Darkness
1958 · Duffy Tyler
You Can't Run Away from It
1956 · Joe
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 · Nolan Brown (uncredited)
I Died a Thousand Times
1955 · Ed (uncredited)
Tall Man Riding
1955 · Townsman (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
1954 · Norman's Driver (uncredited)
The Bounty Hunter
1954 · Eli Danvers (as Dubb Taylor)
Dragnet
1954 · Miller Starkie
Them!
1954 · Railroad Yard Watchman
Riding Shotgun
1954 · Eddie (uncredited)
Crime Wave
1953 · Gus Snider
Life with Buster Keaton
1951
The Marshall of Trail City
1950 · Cannonball
Riding High
1950 · Joe
Lawless Code
1949 · Cannonball Taylor
Roaring Westward
1949 · Cannonball
Brand of Fear
1949 · Cannonball
Across The Rio Grande
1949 · Cannonball Taylor
Gun Law Justice
1949 · Cannonball
Gun Runner
1949 · Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
Courtin' Trouble
1948 · Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
1948 · Cannonball
Silver Trails
1948 · Cannonball
Cowboy Cavalier
1948 · Cannonball
Range Renegades
1948 · Cannonball
Partners of the Sunset
1948 · Cannonball
The Rangers Ride
1948 · Cannonball Taylor
Oklahoma Blues
1948 · Cannonball Taylor
Song of the Drifter
1948 · Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
1947 · Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
1946 · Cannonball
Texas Panhandle
1945 · Cannonball Taylor
Lawless Empire
1945 · Cannonball
Outlaws of the Rockies
1945 · Cannonball
Blazing the Western Trail
1945 · Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
1945 · Cannonball
Both Barrels Blazing
1945 · Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945 · Cannonball
Sagebrush Heroes
1945 · Cannonball
Saddle Leather Law
1944 · Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944 · Cannonball
Cowboy from Lonesome River
1944 · Cannonball
The Last Horseman
1944 · Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
1944 · Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Sundown Valley
1944 · Cannonball Boggs
Cowboy Canteen
1944 · Cannonball
Cowboy in the Clouds
1943 · Cannonball
The Vigilantes Ride
1943 · Cannonball Taylor
Minesweeper
1943 · Seaman Stubby Gordon
Silver City Raiders
1943 · Cannonball
Saddles and Sagebrush
1943 · Cannonball
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
1943 · Cannonball
A Tornado in the Saddle
1942 · Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
1942 · Cannonball
Tanks a Million
1941 · Malloy
King of Dodge City
1941 · Cannonball Taylor
The Son of Davy Crockett
1941 · Cannonball
Hands Across the Rockies
1941 · Cannonball Taylor
The Return of Daniel Boone
1941 · Cannonball
North from the Lone Star
1941 · Cannonball
Across the Sierras
1941 · Cannonball
The Wildcat of Tucson
1940 · Cannonball
Beyond the Sacramento
1940 · Cannonball
Prairie Schooners
1940 · Cannonball
One Man's Law
1940 · Nevady
The Return of Wild Bill
1940 · Cannonball
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940 · Cannonball
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940 · Cannonball Simms
Taming of the West
1939 · Cannonball
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Reporter (uncredited)
Carefree
1938 · (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
1938 · Ed Carmichael
Series (60)
Designing Women
1986
The Cosby Show
1984 · Slim Claxton
Bret Maverick
1981 · Toothless Tim Teal
Darkroom
1981 · Dixie Weeks
How the West Was Won
1977 · Moss
Movin' On
1974
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Houston Lamb
Run, Joe, Run
1974
Chopper One
1974 · Rudy
The Brian Keith Show
1972
Emergency!
1972 · Old Man, George
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Partridge Family
1970 · Flicker
The Odd Couple
1970 · Slim
Love, American Style
1969 · Pa, Grover
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Ray Tobias
The Mod Squad
1968 · Ed Levering
Lancer
1968
The High Chaparral
1967 · Oscar Hipple, Fargo Smith
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Henry Jackson, Charley McQuade
Cimarron Strip
1967 · Owley
Custer
1967
Mr. Terrific
1967 · Preacher
The Monkees
1966 · Paw
That Girl
1966
The Monroes
1966
The Loner
1965 · Jim
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Guard
Laredo
1965
The Big Valley
1965 · Doc Tully
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965 · Ed Hewley
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Preacher
Burke's Law
1963 · Garnet
Temple Houston
1963 · Cliff Willard
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Ensign O'Toole
1962 · Clerk
The Virginian
1962 · Walt Cooper, Runty Bojohn
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962 · Freddy
The Beachcomber
1962 · Pete Dibley
Hazel
1961 · Mitch Brady
Surfside 6
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Billy Ray Talbot, Preacher, Ben Beecham
The Westerner
1960 · Walt Smith
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · George B. Glines
Dennis the Menace
1959 · Opie
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Peters
Wichita Town
1959
Bonanza
1959 · Simon, Otto, Luke Calhoun, Barlow
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Man Tourist
Lawman
1958 · Chef's Assistant (uncredited), Bartender
26 Men
1957
Casey Jones
1957 · Wallie Sims
Perry Mason
1957 · Stroller
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Yancie, Harper - Auctioneer
Cheyenne
1955 · Hoyt
Gunsmoke
1955 · Sonny Starr, Cook, Bartender, Farnum, Noah Riker, Rev. Finney Cox
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955 · Hogan
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Purse, Fire Tender, Cicero Everhart
Death Valley Days
1952 · Rupert
I Love Lucy
1951 · Rattlesnake Jones