![]() #DUB TAYLOR SERIES#In the 1950s, he guest-starred three times on the syndicated series The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. Taylor's last film role was in Maverick (1994), and although he had only a fleeting appearance as an unnamed "Room Clerk", his name appears in the film's opening credits. He appeared in Back to the Future Part III (1990) with veteran Western actors Pat Buttram and Harry Carey Jr. He 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 (1971) as the drunken Doc Shultz. He also appeared in The Wild Bunch (1969) as a minister who gets his flock shot in the film's opening scene in Junior Bonner (1972), The Getaway (1972), and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) as an aging, eccentric outlaw friend of Billy's and in Michael Cimino's crime film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), He also played Ivan Moss, father of Michael J. #DUB TAYLOR PROFESSIONAL#He later joined Sam Peckinpah's stock company in 1965's Major Dundee, playing a professional horse thief. The same year, he performed in No Time for Sergeants as the representative of the draft board who summoned Will Stockdale ( Andy Griffith) from his rural home in Georgia to the United States Air Force. He had a small role in the 1958 Walt Disney film Tonka as a rustler of stray horses for sale. The 1954 film Dragnet had Taylor in an uncredited role, that of gangster Miller Starkie, who is killed in the opening scene. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), A Star Is Born (1954) and Them! (1954). He had bit parts in a number of classic motion pictures, including Mr. ![]() Taylor later dropped the Cannonball name because he felt it held him back from roles in films with larger budgets. He played the character in other westerns starring Charles Starrett, Russell Hayden, Tex Ritter and Jimmy Wakely. Cannonball was a comedic sidekick to Wild Bill Elliott in 13 features. In 1939, he appeared in the film Taming of the West, where he originated the character of Cannonball, a role he played for the next 10 years in over 50 films. During the 1950s and early 1960s, he used his xylophone skills on several television shows, including the syndicated series Ranch Party. ![]() He secured the part because the role required an actor who could play tuned percussion. Tex Harding (left) and Taylor in the 1945 Western Rustlers of the BadlandsĪ vaudeville performer, Taylor 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. ![]()
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