Dub Taylor

American actor (1907–1994)
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Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. 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 is the father of actor and painter Buck Taylor.

Taylor was born February 26, 1907, in Richmond, Virginia, the middle child of five children of Minnie and Walter C. Taylor Sr. According to the federal census of 1920, he 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 lived there until he was 13. Taylor's mother was a Pennsylvania native; and his father, who worked in Augusta at that time as a cotton broker, was from North Carolina. While in Georgia as a boy, Walter Jr. got his lifelong nickname when his friends began calling him "W", then shortened it further to "Dub".

Date of Birth26th February 1907
Zodiac SignPisces
CountryUnited States of America
Current CityRichmond
Birth PlaceRichmond
Death PlaceLos Angeles
NationalityUnited States of America
CitizenshipUnited States of America
ChildrenBuck Taylor
Occupationactor, television actor, film actor