- Was on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) one night and played the xylophone using three mallets in each hand.
- Grandfather-in-law of Anne Lockhart.
- 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, You Can't Take It with You (1938), because he could play the xylophone.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- Was a regular in the "stock company" of director Sam Peckinpah, appearing as Priam in Major Dundee (1965); Wainscoat in The Wild Bunch (1969); and Laughlin in The Getaway (1972), among other films.
- He outlived his grandson Adam C. Taylor by four months.
- His family moved to Augusta, GA, when he was five.
- Older generations will remember him as Ivan Moss in Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
- Appeared in three films written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale: 1941 (1979), Used Cars (1980) and Back to the Future Part III (1990). The latter two films were also directed by Zemeckis.
- Taylor played in support of almost every major (and many minor) western star in Hollywood except Gary Cooper.
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