Dub Taylor

[mtgianni]

Prime TV is carrying "The Hallelujah Trail" which I always thought was one of Dubs finest roles. He wears a vest, suit and tie in this which is a change from his faded red long underwear tops. He wore those tops enough you wondered if he brought his own or if ever studio had them in props.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I’m a big Dub Taylor fan!
Love him in many things.
A while back saw his Son Buck at a local SASS event.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Every time I see his name I think of this:

Short Grub: "McCartney"

McCartney: "Mister McCartney. Shortgrub, I said a lot of mean things to the boys, didn't I?"

Shortgrub : "Yeah, you did."

McCartney : "Tell them from me, I meant every damn word."

 

[rockquarry]

I like Dub Taylor, but Dub Taylor never played anyone but Dub Taylor. It didn't really matter what his name was in a film - always the same character.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I like Dub Taylor, but Dub Taylor never played anyone but Dub Taylor. It didn't really matter what his name was in a film - always the same character.

Kinda like John Wayne.

 

[rockquarry]

Kinda like John Wayne.

I started to include John Wayne, too, but everyone already knew it.

 

[Cdog]

Dub was/is one of my favorite character actors.

I remember Johnny Carson asking him about his drinking and giving it up.

Dub said, Something to the effect, Shoot, it's easy when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired! Pretty sure this was the first time I had heard this eloquent statement.

I remember being really surprised when I first learned that Buck was one of his offspring.

 

[Ogandydancer]

Strother Martin was I guess my favorite and then Edgar Buchannan and then Dub Taylor.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I love all the Character Actors.
Once we went to a downtown Vegas Casino Lounge to see Willie.
I was a little embarrassed to have a better table than another of my Favs.
Chill Wills was sitting behind us.
Yes I spoke to him!

 

[TACPAPA]

I had the pleasure of working with Dub and Buck as a young lad back in the 70's. I was a Grip on an independent film co. I also worked with Struther Martin, Jack Elam, Slim Pickens and the legendary Ben Johnson. Though all the actors may have pilfered a favorite piece of wardrobe from time to time, most production companies had warehouses and trucks full of this stuff. Most of these guys would never be recognized if they weren't wearing this garb. Which is is what they wanted. When I wasn't making movies, I had to be a bodyguard for them. They all really coveted their privacy and personal lives.

 

[625-7]

Kinda like John Wayne.

Well Rusty, We'll throw Ben Johnson in there also. Along with Hank Worden and Harry Cary Jr. And Slim Pickins


Tacpap beat me by hours!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

You Western Fans might want to take a look at YouTube,
A Word on Westerns.
Rob Word is with the Autry Museum and interviews folks connected to making Westerns including actors, stunt folks, writers , etc.
For example Recently I saw Barry Corbin, another of my Favs on there.

 

[hemiram]

I thought Dub's greatest role was the hotel owner in "The Getaway".

 

[Cdog]

I remember what may have been the last movie I saw at a drive-in theater. Dub played the role of Sheriff Harley Davidson. It was likely Henry Fonda's worse movie ever. Henry's character was an aging truck driver that went by Elegant John.

Sheriff Davidson had remote control for the traffic light in his little speed trap community.

Ole Harley fell to temptation in the movie as Elegant John and company made their getaway.

Yes, I remember all this about the movie and not the name.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Also liked Dub in the Getaway.
And it’s also got the Great Slim Pickens.

 

[rockquarry]

He's had so many Dub Taylor roles, but the only ones I can think of at the moment are in "The Getaway" that someone already mentioned and in "Bonnie and Clyde" where he plays Henry Methvin's daddy (toward the end of the movie where he pretended his truck had a flat tire so Clyde would stop and help).

 

[kmyers]

He was great in the old Kapra movie You Can't Take It With You as Ed.

 

[Ron In MD]

I’m a big Dub Taylor fan!
Love him in many things.
A while back saw his Son Buck at a local SASS event.

I never made the father son connection, until now. Thanks.

While I don't have a favorite Dub Taylor movie, he was good in all of them, Buck was very good in "Tombstone" as "Turkey Creek Jack Johnson", love that moniker,

Jack Johnson (posseman - Wikipedia)


Did everyone notice in this scene where he says to Doc Holiday, "I've got plenty of friends", that the friends he spoke of were fellow Mason's, he is wearing a Masonic Lodge emblem on a chain.

And yes, someone did point that out to me, I did not notice it myself.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EfzJlKqKY[/ame]

 

[dscampbell]

I remember what may have been the last movie I saw at a drive-in theater. Dub played the role of Sheriff Harley Davidson. It was likely Henry Fonda's worse movie ever. Henry's character was an aging truck driver that went by Elegant John.

Sheriff Davidson had remote control for the traffic light in his little speed trap community.

Ole Harley fell to temptation in the movie as Elegant John and company made their getaway.

Yes, I remember all this about the movie and not the name.

It was also Henry Fonda’s last movie before he died from cancer. He named his truck Eleanor rafter FDR’s wife.


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[THE PILGRIM]

I don’t think anybody has mentioned this yet,
Dub was a xylophone player.
He Performed in vaudeville and it got him early film roles, cause there ain’t many of them.
OK! There ain’t much demand for them!
That’s probably why he didn’t do it later on.