8.0
8.0
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971
as Reed, the Lawyer
Dub Taylor
Acting
Born:February 26, 1907
Died:October 3, 1994(aged 87)
Birthplace:Richmond, Virginia, USA
Nationality:United States
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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
Filmography (137 movies)
7.6
7.6
The Wild Bunch
1969
as Reverend Wainscoat
7.5
7.5
You Can't Take It with You
1938
as Ed Carmichael
7.5
7.5
Back to the Future Part III
1990
as Saloon Old Timer
7.5
7.5
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
as Ivan Moss
7.4
7.4
Something for a Lonely Man
1968
as Sheriff
7.2
7.2
Hands Across the Rockies
1941
as Cannonball Taylor
7.2
7.2
No Time for Sergeants
1958
as Mr. McKinney
7.1
7.1
The Getaway
1972
as Laughlin
7.1
7.1
Crime Wave
1953
as Gus Snider
7.0
7.0
Flash and the Firecat
1975
as Sheriff C.W. Thurston
7.0
7.0
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
as Dealer
7.0
7.0
Life with Buster Keaton
1951
6.9
6.9
Maverick
1994
as Room Clerk
6.8
6.8
Them!
1954
as Railroad Yard Watchman
6.8
6.8
The Rescuers
1977
as Digger (voice)
6.8
6.8
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974
as Station Attendant
6.8
6.8
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
as Dan Hatcher
6.7
6.7
Spencer's Mountain
1963
as Percy Cook
6.7
6.7
The Learning Tree
1969
as Spikey
6.6
6.6
Major Dundee
1965
as Priam
6.6
6.6
Carefree
1938
as Bit Part (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
as Doc Schultz
6.6
6.6
The Bounty Hunter
1954
as Eli Danvers
6.6
6.6
Conagher
1991
6.5
6.5
Burnt Offerings
1976
as Walker
6.5
6.5
Bandolero!
1968
as Attendant
6.5
6.5
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
1943
as Cannonball
6.5
6.5
Tick... Tick... Tick...
1970
as Junior
6.5
6.5
Treasure of Matecumbe
1976
as Sheriff Forbes
6.5
6.5
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
as Timekeeper
6.4
6.4
A Man Called Horse
1970
as Joe
6.4
6.4
Used Cars
1980
as Tucker
6.4
6.4
Tom Sawyer
1973
as Clayton
6.3
6.3
The Reivers
1969
as Dr. Peabody
6.2
6.2
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
as Doc Adams
6.2
6.2
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
as Pop Cushings
6.1
6.1
A Hole in the Head
1959
as Fred
6.1
6.1
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991
as Gimme Cap
6.1
6.1
Junior Bonner
1972
as Del
6.0
6.0
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
as Clayton Howell
6.0
6.0
Man and Boy
1971
as Atkins
6.0
6.0
Texas Panhandle
1945
as Cannonball Taylor
6.0
6.0
The Decorator
1965
as Taxi Driver
6.0
6.0
Prairie Schooners
1940
as Cannonball
6.0
6.0
The Wild Country
1970
as Phil
5.8
5.8
The Winds of Autumn
1976
as Rattler S. Gravley
5.8
5.8
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970
as Mayor
5.6
5.6
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
as Harley Davidson
5.6
5.6
The Best of Times
1986
as Mac
5.6
5.6
Hearts of the West
1975
as Nevada Ticket Agent
5.6
5.6
Blazing the Western Trail
1945
as Cannonball
5.5
5.5
Both Barrels Blazing
1945
as Cannonball
5.5
5.5
This Is a Hijack
1973
as Sheriff Gordon
5.4
5.4
The Fortune
1975
as Rattlesnake Tom
5.3
5.3
Tanks a Million
1941
as Malloy
5.1
5.1
Don't Make Waves
1967
as Electrician
5.1
5.1
Gator
1976
as Mayor T.L. Caffery
5.1
5.1
Creature from Black Lake
1976
as Grandpaw Bridges
5.1
5.1
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
as Charlie Lee
5.0
5.0
Pony Express Rider
1976
as Boomer Riley
5.0
5.0
Parrish
1961
as Teet Howie
5.0
5.0
Outlaws of the Rockies
1945
as Cannonball
5.0
5.0
Mooncussers
1962
as Fire Tender
5.0
5.0
The Money Jungle
1967
as Pete Jensen
5.0
5.0
The Marshall of Trail City
1950
as Cannonball
5.0
5.0
Minesweeper
1943
as Seaman Stubby Gordon
4.9
4.9
Poor Pretty Eddie
1975
as Justice of the Peace Floyd
4.8
4.8
Evel Knievel
1971
as Turquoise Smith
4.8
4.8
Hot Rod Gang
1958
as Landlord
4.7
4.7
Moonshine County Express
1977
as Uncle Bill
4.5
4.5
The Return of Daniel Boone
1941
as Cannonball
4.5
4.5
Johnny Banco
1967
4.5
4.5
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
as Cottonmouth Gorch
4.4
4.4
Falling from Grace
1992
as Grandpa Parks
4.0
4.0
Saddles and Sagebrush
1943
as Cannonball
4.0
4.0
Menace on the Mountain
1970
as Cicero Everhart
4.0
4.0
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978
as Gunner
4.0
4.0
Brock's Last Case
1973
as Judge Robbins
4.0
4.0
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
1975
as Bitteroot
3.9
3.9
Country Blue
1973
as J.J. 'Jumpy' Belk
3.7
3.7
Across The Rio Grande
1949
as Cannonball Taylor
3.2
3.2
Beartooth
1978
3.0
3.0
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
as Cannonball
3.0
3.0
Brand of Fear
1949
as Cannonball
2.3
2.3
A Tornado in the Saddle
1942
as Cannonball
2.2
2.2
Across the Sierras
1941
as Cannonball
1.0
1.0
Black Gold
1962
as Doc
Roaring Westward
1949
as Cannonball
Sundown Valley
1944
as Cannonball Boggs
Saddle Leather Law
1944
as Cannonball
Partners of the Sunset
1948
as Cannonball
Cowboy Cavalier
1948
as Cannonball
Silver Trails
1948
as Cannonball
Rough Ridin' Justice
1945
as Cannonball
The Taming of the West
1939
as Cannonball
Cowboy Canteen
1944
as Cannonball
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974
as Halsey
Gun Law Justice
1949
as Cannonball
Lawless Empire
1945
as Cannonball
Silver City Raiders
1943
as Cannonball
The Last Horseman
1944
as Cannonball
Beyond the Sacramento
1940
as Cannonball
Frontier Gunlaw
1946
as Cannonball
Rustlers of the Badlands
1945
as Cannonball
Cowboy in the Clouds
1943
as Cannonball
The Vigilantes Ride
1943
as Cannonball Taylor
King of Dodge City
1941
as Cannonball Taylor
North from the Lone Star
1941
as Cannonball
The Lone Prairie
1942
as Cannonball
Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944
as Cannonball
Wyoming Hurricane
1944
as Doc 'Canonball' Jones
Cowboy from Lonesome River
1944
as Cannonball
Sagebrush Heroes
1945
as Cannonball
Ridin' Down the Trail
1947
as Cannonball
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
as Purse
The Wildcat of Tucson
1940
as Cannonball
Honky Tonk
1974
The Outlaws
1984
as L.D. Sloane
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940
as Cannonball Simms
Oklahoma Blues
1948
as Cannonball Taylor
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
1977
as Stableman
Gun Runner
1949
as Cannonball Taylor (as 'Cannonball' Taylor)
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972
as Old Timer
Song of the Drifter
1948
as Cannonball
Range Renegades
1948
as Cannonball
Outlaw Brand
1948
as Cannonball
Lawless Code
1949
as Cannonball Taylor
Wild in the Sky
1972
as Officer Roddenberry
Great Day
1977
as Doc
One Man's Law
1940
as Nevady
The Losers
1963
as Gregory
Doc Hooker's Bunch
1978
as Dr. Isaiah Beauregard Hooker
The Return of Wild Bill
1940
as Cannonball
The Son of Davy Crockett
1941
as Cannonball
Courtin' Trouble
1948
as Cannonball
The Rangers Ride
1948
as Cannonball Taylor
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