Dub Taylor

Dub Taylor

Cannonball Taylor

Birth Date

2/26/1907 (Age 87)

Birth Place

Richmond, Virginia, USA

Death Date

10/3/1994

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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...

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Total Credits

44

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Saloon Old Timer

Ivan Moss

Room Clerk

Reporter (uncredited)

Reverend Wainscoat

Digger (voice)

Frequent Collaborators

Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

2 films together

Jack Elam

Jack Elam

1 film together

Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis

2 films together

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