1. Dub Taylor is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor.
19 Facts About Dub Taylor
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Dub Taylor secured the part because the role required an actor who could play tuned percussion.
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Dub Taylor played the character in other Westerns starring Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Tex Ritter and Jimmy Wakely.
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Dub Taylor later dropped the Cannonball name because he felt it held him back from roles in films with larger budgets.
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Dub Taylor had a small role in the 1958 Walt Disney film Tonka as a rustler of stray horses for sale.
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Dub Taylor later joined Sam Peckinpah's stock company in 1965's Major Dundee, playing a professional horse thief.
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Dub Taylor portrayed an ill-tempered chuckwagon cook in the 1969 film The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson, and appeared in Support Your Local Gunfighter as the drunken Doc Shultz.
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Dub Taylor appeared in Back to the Future Part III with veteran Western actors Pat Buttram and Harry Carey Jr.
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Dub Taylor appeared in the 1955 episode "The Outlander" of Cheyenne, and on the syndicated series Death Valley Days playing the Colorado silver miner "Chicken Bill" Lovell.
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Dub Taylor was on The Lloyd Bridges Show, in the episodes "My Child Is Yet a Stranger" and "The Tyrees of Capital Hill".
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Dub Taylor was in The Andy Griffith Show, first as the preacher who marries Charlene Darling to Dud Wash, then as postmaster Talbert, and next as the brother-in-law of town handyman Emmett Clark.
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Dub Taylor performed on other sitcoms, including Hazel with Shirley Booth.
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Dub Taylor was cast in an episode of I Love Lucy, and on The Brian Keith Show, and in a fourth-season episode of The Cosby Show.
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Dub Taylor was on NBC's series Laredo and The High Chaparral.
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Dub Taylor played Houston Lamb in four episodes of Little House On The Prairie in seasons six and seven.
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Dub Taylor appeared on Hee Haw for six seasons, from 1985 to 1991, where he was mostly seen as a regular in the Lulu's Truck Stop skit featuring Lulu Roman and Gailard Sartain.
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Dub Taylor was in several episodes of Designing Women as a rustic enamored with the women from Sugarbaker's during a camping expedition.
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Dub Taylor died of a heart attack on October 3,1994, in Los Angeles.
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Dub Taylor was cremated, and his ashes were scattered near Westlake Village, California.