Dub Taylor
His son, Buck Taylor, is also an actor and a painter. Buck Taylor played deputy Newly O'Brien on CBS's long-running Gunsmoke. Before he joined the Gunsmoke cast, Buck Taylor appeared in ten episodes of the largely forgotten ABC Western The Monroes in 1966-1967. Dub Taylor appeared in two of those episodes and also guest starred numerous times on Gunsmoke. Buck and Dub Taylor also appeared together in the 1991 Turner Network Television film Conagher starring Buck Taylor's friend Sam Elliott and Elliott's wife, Katharine Ross.
In early 2006, filmmaker Mark Stokes began directing a feature-length documentary on the life of Dub Taylor, "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor,"[2] which has received support from the Taylor Family and many of Dub's previous co-workers, including Bill Cosby, Peter Fonda, Dixie Carter, John "Cougar" Mellencamp, Don Collier, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett, as well as many others. The project is from executive producers Stokes and James Kicklighter from JamesWorks Entertainment and Professor Pauper Productions.
Taylor died of congestive heart failure. He was cremated, with ashes scattered near Westlake Village, California. In addition to son Buck, he had a daughter, Faydean Taylor Tharp (born ca. 1931) of the Greater Los Angeles Area. (Internet sources do not mention Mrs. Taylor.)[3]
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References
- ^ Dub Taylor: Movie and TV Star. The Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
- ^ That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
- ^ Dub Taylor
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External links
- Dub Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
- Official Website for "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor"
- Press Release for "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor"
- Behind the Scenes of "That Guy: The Legacy of Dub Taylor"
- Appreciation of "Cannonball"
- Find-A-Grave biography
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