Dub Taylor

Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor, Jr.
Dub Taylor in Bonnie And Clyde as Ivan Moss
Born	(1907-02-26)February 26, 1907 Richmond, Virginia, USA
Died	October 3, 1994(1994-10-03) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause of death	Heart attack
Occupation	Film and television actor
Years active	1938–1993

Walter Clarence Taylor, Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994) — known as Dub Taylor — was an American character actor who worked extensively in westerns, but also in comedy from the 1940s into the 1990s. He was the father of actor Buck Taylor, who played the character Newly O'Brien on CBS's Gunsmoke.

Taylor was born in Richmond, Virginia. The name Walter was shortened to "W" (double-u) by his friends and then "Dub." His family moved to Augusta, Georgia, when he was five years old and lived in that city until he was thirteen. During that time he befriended Ty Cobb's son and namesake, Ty Cobb, Jr. He had four siblings: Minnie Margret Taylor, Maud Clare Taylor, George Taylor and Edna Fay Taylor. Taylor was particularly close to a grandson, Walter Tac Tharp.

A vaudeville performer, according to IMDB he was a member of the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team that played in the 1938 Rose Bowl. He stayed behind to make it in films, and made his film debut in 1938, as the cheerful ex-football captain Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You because the character called for a someone who could play the xylophone. (Taylor was quite proficient, at one time on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) he played the xylophone using three mallets in each hand.) In the next year, Taylor appeared in The 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 fifty films. "Cannonball" was a comic sidekick to "Wild Bill" Saunders (played by Bill Elliott), a pairing that continued through thirteen features, during which Elliott’s character became Wild Bill Hickok.