Anecdotes

Was on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) one night and played the xylophone using three mallets in each hand.

Father of Buck Taylor, with whom he appeared in Conagher (1991).

Once explained that, as a boy, he had been called "W" as a nickname for his first name Walter. That was later shortened to just "Dub."

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 secured the role of Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's film, Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous (1938), because he could play the xylophone.

Often played a sidekick to cowboy stars, such as Charles Starrett (The Durango Kid), Russell Hayden (Lucky), Don 'Red' Barry (Red Ryder), Bill Elliott and Jimmy Wakely.

His life was chronicled in 2007 in a feature length documentary, "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor," directed by Mark Ezra Stokes and produced by James Kicklighter.

Was a regular in the "stock company" of director Sam Peckinpah, appearing as Priam in Major Dundee (1965); Wainscoat in La Horde sauvage (1969); and Laughlin in Guet-apens (1972), among other films.

Grandfather-in-law of Anne Lockhart.

His family moved to Augusta, GA, when he was five.

Older generations will remember him as Ivan Moss in Bonnie et Clyde (1967).

He outlived his grandson Adam C. Taylor by four months.

He appeared in three films written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale: 1941 (1979), La Grosse Magouille (1980) and Retour vers le futur 3 (1990). The latter two films were also directed by Zemeckis.

Grandfather of Adam C. Taylor, Matthew Taylor, and Cooper Taylor.

Taylor played in support of almost every major (and many minor) western star in Hollywood except Gary Cooper.