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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 26, 1907
Died
October 3, 1994
Place of Birth
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Also Known As
- Cannonball Taylor
- Dubb Taylor
- Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr.
- Walter Clarence Taylor Jr.
Dub Taylor
1.0 Popularity
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
Known For
6.9
Room Clerk
Maverick
1994
4.6
Grandpa Parks
Falling from Grace
1992
4.6
The Westerner's Friend
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991
6.6
Conagher
1991
6.1
Gimme Cap
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991
7.5
Saloon Old Timer
Back to the Future Part III
1990
5.1
Charlie Lee
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
6.8
Designing Women
1986
5.6
Mac
The Best of Times
1986
7.0
Slim Claxton
The Cosby Show
1984
Credits
Maverick
as Room Clerk
1994
6.9
Falling from Grace
as Grandpa Parks
1992
4.6
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as The Westerner's Friend
1991
4.6
Conagher
1991
6.6
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
as Gimme Cap
1991
6.1
Back to the Future Part III
as Saloon Old Timer
1990
7.5
Once Upon a Texas Train
as Charlie Lee
1988
5.1
Designing Women
1986
6.8
The Best of Times
as Mac
1986
5.6
The Cosby Show
as Slim Claxton
1984
7.0
The Outlaws
as L.D. Sloane
1984
0.0
Cannonball Run II
as Police Officer
1984
5.4
Bret Maverick
as Toothless Tim Teal
1981
5.0
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
as Cottonmouth Gorch
1981
4.5
Used Cars
as Tucker
1980
6.4
1941
as Mr. Malcomb
1979
5.8
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Gunner
1978
4.0
Doc Hooker's Bunch
as Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
1978
0.0
The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Harley Davidson
1978
5.6
Beartooth
1978
3.2
The Rescuers
as Digger (voice)
1977
6.8
Moonshine County Express
as Uncle Bill
1977
4.7
Great Day
as Doc
1977
0.0
How the West Was Won
as Moss
1977
6.9
🎬
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
as Stableman
1977
0.0
Pony Express Rider
as Boomer Riley
1976
5.0
Burnt Offerings
as Walker
1976
6.5
Gator
as Mayor T.L. Caffery
1976
5.1
Treasure of Matecumbe
as Sheriff Forbes
1976
6.5
The Winds of Autumn
as Rattler S. Gravley
1976
5.8
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
1976
9.0
Creature from Black Lake
as Grandpaw Bridges
1976
5.1
Hearts of the West
as Nevada Ticket Agent
1975
5.6
Poor Pretty Eddie
as Justice of the Peace Floyd
1975
4.9
Flash and the Firecat
as Sheriff C.W. Thurston
1975
7.0
The Fortune
as Rattlesnake Tom
1975
5.4
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
as Bitteroot
1975
4.0
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Run, Joe, Run
1974
6.3
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
as Station Attendant
1974
6.8
Honky Tonk
1974
0.0
Chopper One
as Rudy
1974
5.0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Halsey
1974
0.0
This Is a Hijack
as Sheriff Gordon
1973
5.5
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Josh
1973
7.2
Tom Sawyer
as Clayton
1973
6.4
Brock's Last Case
as Judge Robbins
1973
4.0
Country Blue
as J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
1973
3.9
The Getaway
as Laughlin
1972
7.1
The Brian Keith Show
1972
5.0
Junior Bonner
as Del
1972
6.1
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
as Old Timer
1972
0.0
Wild in the Sky
as Officer Roddenberry
1972
0.0
Emergency!
as Old Man
1972
7.8
Emergency!
as George
1972
7.8
Evel Knievel
as Turquoise Smith
1971
4.8
Man and Boy
as Atkins
1971
6.0
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Doc Schultz
1971
6.6
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Reed, the Lawyer
1971
8.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Wild Country
as Phil
1970
6.0
The Partridge Family
as Flicker
1970
6.8
The Odd Couple
as Slim
1970
7.8
A Man Called Horse
as Joe
1970
6.4
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Mayor
1970
5.8
Menace on the Mountain
as Cicero Everhart
1970
4.0
… tick… tick… tick…
as Junior
1970
6.5
The Reivers
as Dr. Peabody
1969
6.3
The Undefeated
as McCartney
1969
6.2
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Pa
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Grover
1969
6.1
The Learning Tree
as Spikey
1969
6.7
The Wild Bunch
as Reverend Wainscoat
1969
7.6
Death of a Gunfighter
as Doc Adams
1969
6.2
Ride a Northbound Horse
as Purse
1969
0.0
Something for a Lonely Man
as Sheriff
1968
7.4
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Lancer
1968
4.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Ray Tobias
1968
7.1
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Pop Cushings
1968
6.3
Bandolero!
as Attendant
1968
6.5
The Money Jungle
as Pete Jensen
1967
5.0
The High Chaparral
as Oscar Hipple
1967
6.6
The High Chaparral
as Fargo Smith
1967
6.6
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Henry Jackson
1967
6.2
Cimarron Strip
as Owley
1967
5.5
Custer
1967
6.0
Bonnie and Clyde
as Ivan Moss
1967
7.5
Johnny Banco
1967
4.5
Don't Make Waves
as Electrician
1967
5.1
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
as Timekeeper
1967
6.6
Mr. Terrific
as Preacher
1967
7.5
The Monkees
1966
6.5
That Girl
1966
6.1
The Monroes
1966
5.7
The Cincinnati Kid
as Dealer
1965
7.0
The Loner
as Jim
1965
5.7
The Wild Wild West
as Guard
1965
7.6
Laredo
1965
6.3
The Big Valley
as Doc Tully
1965
6.1
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
as Ed Hewley
1965
6.6
The Hallelujah Trail
as Clayton Howell
1965
6.1
The Decorator
as Taxi Driver
1965
6.0
Major Dundee
as Priam
1965
6.6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Preacher
1964
7.1
Burke's Law
as Garnet
1963
6.0
Temple Houston
as Cliff Willard
1963
5.7
Spencer's Mountain
as Percy Cook
1963
6.7
The Losers
as Gregory
1963
0.0
Mooncussers
as Fire Tender
1962
5.0
How the West Was Won
as Man (uncredited)
1962
7.0
Period of Adjustment
as Drunk (uncredited)
1962
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Ensign O'Toole
as Clerk
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Walt Cooper
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Runty Bojohn
1962
6.4
The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Freddy
1962
5.0
Black Gold
as Doc
1962
1.0
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Dan Hatcher
1962
6.8
🎬
The Beachcomber
as Pete Dibley
1962
0.0
Pocketful of Miracles
as Man (uncredited)
1961
7.3
Hazel
1961
6.8
Hazel
as Mitch Brady
1961
6.8
Parrish
as Teet Howie
1961
5.0
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Billy Ray Talbot
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
as Preacher
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
as Ben Beecham
1960
7.6
The Westerner
as Walt Smith
1960
6.8
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as George B. Glines
1960
6.2
Home from the Hill
as Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
1960
6.7
Dennis the Menace
as Opie
1959
6.5
The Twilight Zone
as Peters
1959
8.5
Wichita Town
1959
4.2
A Hole in the Head
as Fred
1959
6.1
Bonanza
as Simon
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Otto
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Luke Calhoun
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Barlow
1959
7.5
Auntie Mame
as County Veterinarian (uncredited)
1958
7.0
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Man Tourist
1958
6.7
Lawman
1958
5.6
Lawman
as Chef's Assistant (uncredited)
1958
5.6
Lawman
as Bartender
1958
5.6
Hot Rod Gang
as Landlord
1958
4.8
No Time for Sergeants
as Mr. McKinney
1958
7.2
26 Men
1957
4.2
Casey Jones
as Wallie Sims
1957
5.5
Perry Mason
as Stroller
1957
7.7
You Can't Run Away from It
as Joe
1956
4.7
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Yancie
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Harper - Auctioneer
1956
6.0
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Nolan Brown (uncredited)
1956
6.9
I Died a Thousand Times
as Ed (uncredited)
1955
6.1
Cheyenne
as Hoyt
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Sonny Starr
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Farnum
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Cook
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Bartender
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Noah Riker
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Rev. Finney Cox
1955
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Hogan
1955
6.8
Tall Man Riding
as Townsman (uncredited)
1955
5.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Purse
1954
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Fire Tender
1954
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Cicero Everhart
1954
7.8
A Star Is Born
as Norman's Driver (uncredited)
1954
7.1
The Bounty Hunter
as Eli Danvers
1954
6.6
Dragnet
as Miller Starkie
1954
6.1
Them!
as Railroad Yard Watchman
1954
6.8
Riding Shotgun
as Eddie (uncredited)
1954
5.8
Crime Wave
as Gus Snider
1953
7.1
Death Valley Days
as Rupert
1952
6.4
I Love Lucy
as Rattlesnake Jones
1951
7.9
Life with Buster Keaton
1951
7.0
🎬
The Marshall of Trail City
as Cannonball
1950
5.0
Riding High
as Joe
1950
5.8
Lawless Code
as Cannonball Taylor
1949
0.0
Roaring Westward
as Cannonball
1949
0.0
Brand of Fear
as Cannonball
1949
3.0
Across The Rio Grande
as Cannonball Taylor
1949
3.7
Gun Law Justice
as Cannonball
1949
0.0
Gun Runner
as Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
1949
0.0
Courtin' Trouble
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Outlaw Brand
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Silver Trails
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Cowboy Cavalier
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Range Renegades
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Partners of the Sunset
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
The Rangers Ride
as Cannonball Taylor
1948
0.0
Oklahoma Blues
as Cannonball Taylor
1948
0.0
Song of the Drifter
as Cannonball
1948
0.0
Ridin' Down the Trail
as Cannonball
1947
0.0
Frontier Gunlaw
as Cannonball
1946
0.0
Texas Panhandle
as Cannonball Taylor
1945
6.0
Lawless Empire
as Cannonball
1945
0.0
Outlaws of the Rockies
as Cannonball
1945
5.0
Blazing the Western Trail
as Cannonball
1945
5.6
Rustlers of the Badlands
as Cannonball
1945
0.0
Both Barrels Blazing
as Cannonball
1945
5.5
Rough Ridin' Justice
as Cannonball
1945
0.0
Sagebrush Heroes
as Cannonball
1945
0.0
Saddle Leather Law
as Cannonball
1944
0.0
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
as Cannonball
1944
0.0
Cowboy from Lonesome River
as Cannonball
1944
0.0
The Last Horseman
as Cannonball
1944
0.0
Wyoming Hurricane
as Doc 'Canonball' Jones
1944
0.0
Sundown Valley
as Cannonball Boggs
1944
0.0
Cowboy Canteen
as Cannonball
1944
0.0
Cowboy in the Clouds
as Cannonball
1943
0.0
The Vigilantes Ride
as Cannonball Taylor
1943
0.0
Minesweeper
as Seaman Stubby Gordon
1943
5.0
Silver City Raiders
as Cannonball
1943
0.0
Saddles and Sagebrush
as Cannonball
1943
4.0
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
as Cannonball
1943
6.5
A Tornado in the Saddle
as Cannonball
1942
2.3
The Lone Prairie
as Cannonball
1942
0.0
Tanks a Million
as Malloy
1941
5.3
King of Dodge City
as Cannonball Taylor
1941
0.0
The Son of Davy Crockett
as Cannonball
1941
0.0
Hands Across the Rockies
as Cannonball Taylor
1941
7.2
The Return of Daniel Boone
as Cannonball
1941
4.5
North from the Lone Star
as Cannonball
1941
0.0
Across the Sierras
as Cannonball
1941
2.2
The Wildcat of Tucson
as Cannonball
1940
0.0
Beyond the Sacramento
as Cannonball
1940
0.0
Prairie Schooners
as Cannonball
1940
6.0
One Man's Law
as Nevady
1940
0.0
The Return of Wild Bill
as Cannonball
1940
0.0
The Man from Tumbleweeds
as Cannonball
1940
3.0
Pioneers of the Frontier
as Cannonball Simms
1940
0.0
Taming of the West
as Cannonball
1939
0.0
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Reporter (uncredited)
1939
7.8
Carefree
as (uncredited)
1938
6.6
You Can't Take It with You
as Ed Carmichael
1938
7.5