Cast
Dub Taylor
Acting
Cast
Dub Taylor
Known for
Acting
Born
1907-02-26
From
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Died
1994-10-03
Also known as Cannonball Taylor, Dubb Taylor, Walter Clarence "Dub" 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
Back to the Future Part III
as Saloon Old Timer
The Rescuers
as Digger (voice)
1941
as Mr. Malcomb
Maverick
as Room Clerk
Bonnie and Clyde
as Ivan Moss
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
as Station Attendant
The Undefeated
as McCartney
The Getaway
as Laughlin
How the West Was Won
as Man (uncredited)
The Wild Bunch
as Reverend Wainscoat
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Josh
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Reporter (uncredited)
Used Cars
as Tucker
Cannonball Run II
as Police Officer
Them!
as Railroad Yard Watchman
Tom Sawyer
as Clayton
… tick… tick… tick…
as Junior
A Star Is Born
as Norman's Driver (uncredited)
Bandolero!
as Attendant
Riding Shotgun
as Eddie (uncredited)
Burnt Offerings
as Walker
Dragnet
as Miller Starkie
Gator
as Mayor T.L. Caffery
Pocketful of Miracles
as Man (uncredited)
Hot Rod Gang
as Landlord
Lawless Code
as Cannonball Taylor
Crime Wave
as Gus Snider
Conagher
A Man Called Horse
as Joe
You Can't Take It with You
as Ed Carmichael
Spencer's Mountain
as Percy Cook
Auntie Mame
as County Veterinarian (uncredited)
The Bounty Hunter
as Eli Danvers (as Dubb Taylor)
Major Dundee
as Priam
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Dan Hatcher
The Cincinnati Kid
as Dealer
The Hallelujah Trail
as Clayton Howell
The Reivers
as Dr. Peabody
The Best of Times
as Mac
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Pop Cushings
The Outlaws
as L.D. Sloane
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Nolan Brown (uncredited)
Texas Panhandle
as Cannonball Taylor
Evel Knievel
as Turquoise Smith
Once Upon a Texas Train
as Charlie Lee
Hearts of the West
as Nevada Ticket Agent
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Doc Schultz
Cowboy Canteen
as Cannonball
Death of a Gunfighter
as Doc Adams
I Died a Thousand Times
as Ed (uncredited)
The Fortune
as Rattlesnake Tom
Moonshine County Express
as Uncle Bill
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
as Timekeeper
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
as The Westerner's Friend
Prairie Schooners
as Cannonball
The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Harley Davidson
Parrish
as Teet Howie
Junior Bonner
as Del
Home from the Hill
as Bob Skaggs (uncredited)
Riding High
as Joe
Minesweeper
as Seaman Stubby Gordon
A Hole in the Head
as Fred
Treasure of Matecumbe
as Sheriff Forbes
Black Gold
as Doc
No Time for Sergeants
as Mr. McKinney
The Wild Country
as Phil
Carefree
as (uncredited)
Creature from Black Lake
as Grandpaw Bridges
The Losers
as Gregory
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
as Gimme Cap
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Mayor
You Can't Run Away from It
as Joe
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
as Cottonmouth Gorch
Mooncussers
as Fire Tender
Falling from Grace
as Grandpa Parks
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
as Reed, the Lawyer
Honky Tonk
Menace on the Mountain
as Cicero Everhart
Don't Make Waves
as Electrician
Period of Adjustment
as Drunk (uncredited)
Poor Pretty Eddie
as Justice of the Peace Floyd
Something for a Lonely Man
as Sheriff
The Son of Davy Crockett
as Cannonball
Silver City Raiders
as Cannonball
Lawless Empire
as Cannonball
The Money Jungle
as Pete Jensen
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Halsey
Beartooth
Taming of the West
as Cannonball
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
as Stableman
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Gunner
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
Johnny Banco
Tall Man Riding
as Townsman (uncredited)
Silver Trails
as Cannonball
Wild in the Sky
as Officer Roddenberry
The Learning Tree
as Spikey
The Winds of Autumn
as Rattler S. Gravley
This Is a Hijack
as Sheriff Gordon
Brock's Last Case
as Judge Robbins
Beyond the Sacramento
as Cannonball
One Man's Law
as Nevady
Pioneers of the Frontier
as Cannonball Simms
A Tornado in the Saddle
as Cannonball
Flash and the Firecat
as Sheriff C.W. Thurston
Roaring Westward
as Cannonball
Across the Sierras
as Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
as Cannonball
Gun Runner
as Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
Ride a Northbound Horse
as Purse
Pony Express Rider
as Boomer Riley
Across The Rio Grande
as Cannonball Taylor
Gun Law Justice
as Cannonball
Blazing the Western Trail
as Cannonball
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
as Bitteroot
Hands Across the Rockies
as Cannonball Taylor
Range Renegades
as Cannonball
Oklahoma Blues
as Cannonball Taylor
Sagebrush Heroes
as Cannonball
The Return of Wild Bill
as Cannonball
Country Blue
as J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
as Old Timer
North from the Lone Star
as Cannonball
Saddle Leather Law
as Cannonball
Song of the Drifter
as Cannonball
Outlaws of the Rockies
as Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
as Cannonball
The Return of Daniel Boone
as Cannonball
Man and Boy
as Atkins
The Vigilantes Ride
as Cannonball Taylor
Great Day
as Doc
Doc Hooker's Bunch
as Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Man from Tumbleweeds
as Cannonball
Cowboy Cavalier
as Cannonball
Saddles and Sagebrush
as Cannonball
The Marshall of Trail City
as Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
as Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
as Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
as Cannonball
Life with Buster Keaton
Tanks a Million
as Malloy
Brand of Fear
as Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
as Cannonball
King of Dodge City
as Cannonball Taylor
The Wildcat of Tucson
as Cannonball
Cowboy in the Clouds
as Cannonball
The Last Horseman
as Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
as Cannonball
Cowboy from Lonesome River
as Cannonball
Sundown Valley
as Cannonball Boggs
The Decorator
as Taxi Driver
The Rangers Ride
as Cannonball Taylor
Courtin' Trouble
as Cannonball
Both Barrels Blazing
as Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
as Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
as Cannonball
Partners of the Sunset
as Cannonball