Buck Taylor
Gender: Male
Born: 13th May 1938 (currently 74 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Gunsmoke, The Monroes
Movies: Devil's Angels, Conagher, Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge, Gettysburg, Jericho, The Wild Angels, Truce, The Young Racers, Hard Time, Screen Door Jesus, Big Bad John, Miracle at Sage Creek, Pony Express Rider, The Wendell Baker Story, Beartooth, The Trail to Hope Rose, Doc Hooker's Bunch, Hell to Pay, Wild Wild West, The Big Valley, The Mist, Palominas, Cowboys & Aliens, Down the Long Hills
Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III (born May 13, 1938) is an American actor and water color artist best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brien in 113 episodes during the last eight seasons of CBS's Gunsmoke television series (1967–1975). In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and Gunsmoke costar James Arness. Taylor's painting specialty is the American West, and each year, he creates the posters for several Texas rodeos. Taylor lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth, Texas.
Taylor was born in Hollywood to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor, Jr. He has an older sister, Faydean Taylor Tharp (born ca. 1931) of the Greater Los Angeles Area. His father was the character actor Dub Taylor, sometimes known as "Cannonball" Taylor and a native of Richmond, Virginia. Buck Taylor was born in the same year that his father got his first acting role in the film You Can't Take It With You. Dub Taylor, one of cinema's most prolific supporting actors, appeared with dozens of leading actors, including John Wayne and the musicians Tex Ritter and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Buck grew up on the various Hollywood sets. Buck Taylor was close to his
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