Actor

Dub Taylor

February 26, 1907 · Richmond, Virginia, USA

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.

Notable work

7.5
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
as Saloon Old Timer
6.8
The Rescuers (1977)
as Digger (voice)
7.5
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
as Ivan Moss
6.9
Maverick (1994)
as Room Clerk
7.6
The Wild Bunch (1969)
as Reverend Wainscoat
7.8
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Reporter (uncredited)
8.5
The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Peters
8
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
as Houston Lamb
5.8
1941 (1979)
as Mr. Malcomb
7.2
The Getaway (1972)
as Laughlin
6.8
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
as Station Attendant
7
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Man (uncredited)

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