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{{Infobox person<br>
| name=Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III<br>
(Actor best known as "Newly O'Brien" on ''Gunsmoke")
| birth_date=May 1, 1938
| birth_place =[[Hollywood]], [[Los Angeles]]<br>[[California]], USA
| website = http://www.bucktaylor.com/
|s spouse=(1) Judy Ann Nugent]] (married 1961–1983, divorced)<br>
Goldie Ann Taylor (married 1995)
}}
'''Walter Clarence Taylor, III''', known as '''Buck Taylor''' (born May 13, 1938), is an [[United States|American]] [[actor]] best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brien in 174 episodes during the last eight seasons of [[CBS]]'s ''Gunsmoke'' [[television]] series]]. In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and ''Gunsmoke'' star James Arness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bucktaylor.com/paintingpages/jarness.htm |title=Buck Taylor Paintings |publisher=Bucktaylor.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-26}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=tvcom>{{cite web|author=TV.com |url=http://www.tv.com/buck-taylor/person/33018/biography.html |title=Buck Taylor Bio – Buck Taylor Biography – Buck Taylor Stories |publisher=Tv.com |date=1938-05-13 |accessdate=August 26, 2012</ref>
==Background==
Taylor was born in [[Hollywood]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor, Jr. He has an older sister, Faydean Taylor Tharp (born ''circa'' 1931) of the Greater Los Angeles Area. His father was the character actor Dub Taylor, sometimes known as "Cannonball" Taylor, a native of [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]]. Buck Taylor was born in the same year 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 [[musician]]s [[Tex Ritter]] and [[Bob Wills]] and the Texas Playboys. Buck grew up on the various Hollywood sets and was close to his father's Texas friend, the western actor Chill Wills.<ref name=buck>[http://www.bucktaylor.com/files/bio.htm Buck Taylor | Actor and Western Artist | Biography]. bucktaylor.com</ref>
Taylor graduated from North Hollywood High School and studied theatre arts at the [[University of Southern California]] in Los Angeles. In 1960, he tried out for the [[Olympic Games]] in [[gymnastics]]. He served two years in the [[United States Navy]].<ref name=tvcom/>
==Acting career==
===Television and film roles===
Taylor's first acting role was as Trooper Shattuck in the 1961 episode "Image of a Drawn Sword" on CBS's ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.'' He appeared on the sitcoms ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' and ''My Favorite Martian.'' He was cast twice in the 1963-1964 ABC series ''The Greatest Show on Earth''. He portrayed Mickey Vecchione in the 1963 episode "My Son the Social Worker" on the television version of ''Going My Way.''
Taylor co-starred in the [[Walt Disney]] production, "Johnny Shiloh," the first of more than fifty films. He was then cast in an uncredited role in ''Ensign Pulver'' (1964) and in ''The Wild Angels'' (1966), as a [[motorcycle]] gang member. He guest starred on ''Have Gun - Will Travel'', ''The Rebel'', and three times on ''Stoney Burke.'' starring Jack Lord. He was cast on ''The Fugitive" and "The Legend of Jesse James]].'' He appeared as well on 'The Virginian.''. He also appeared as frustrated newlywed Gard Hayden in ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' in the 1964 episode titled "Don't Open Till Doomsday".
===Newly O'Brien on ''Gunsmoke''===
Taylor's long-term role on ''Gunsmoke'' was not his first role in a weekly series. In the preceding 1966–1967 season, he starred in ten episodes as John "Brad" Bradford, along with Michael Anderson, Jr.], and Barbara Hershey]in ABC's ''The Monroes,'' the story of an orphaned family trying to survive in the [[Wyoming]] wilderness.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060011/fullcredits#cast "The Monroes" (1966) – Full cast and crew]. imdb.com</ref>
''Gunsmoke'' introduced Taylor on a weekly basis to millions of viewers. Dub Taylor also guest-starred numerous times on the series. Before Taylor was cast as handsome young gunsmith "Newly," he had appeared in an earlier segment of the series as an outlaw. As Newly, however, he was clearly one of the "good guys" in the same tradition as James Arness as Matt Dillon. The Newly character superseded that of Clayton Thaddeus "Thad" Greenwood, played by Roger Ewing. Taylor got along so well with the ''Gunsmoke'' cast that he named his second and third sons Matthew Taylor and Cooper Glenn Taylor for James Arness' Matt Dilloon role and Glenn Strange (1899–1973), the character actor who played the bartender, Sam, and remained on the program until [[cancer]] claimed his life. Strange never knew of the honor, for Cooper Taylor was not born until 1975. Taylor was actively involved in the preparation of the script for the 1987 ''[unsmoke: Return to Dodge'' reunion film,<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Gunsmoke-Return-Dodge-James-Arness/dp/6302662346 Amazon.com: Gunsmoke- Return to Dodge] (VHS, 1987)</ref> by which time Milburn Stone, the cranky Doc Adams character, had died. Ken Curtis, who had portrayed the deputy Festus Haggen, felt shortchanged by the offer of far less pay than Amanda Blake and passed on the project. In 1991, Taylor co-starred with Curtis in what turned out to be Curtis' last acting role in the film version of [[Louis L'Amour]]'s ''Conagher,'' which also starred Taylor's friend [[Sam Elliott]] and Elliott's wife, Katharine Ross.<ref name=buck/>
===Acting after ''Gunsmoke''===
At the age of forty-three, Taylor was cast as the outlaw Dan Clifton, who died at thirty-one, in the 1981 film ''[[Cattle Annie and Little Britches]]'', a fictional portrayal of the teenaged bandits [[Cattle Annie]] and [[Little Britches]], played by Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane, respectively. Taylor is called "Dynamite Dick" in the film, but Clifton's nickname was "Dynamite Dan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082145/fullcredits|title=Cattle Annie and Little Britches|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 27, 2012}}</ref>
In 1983, Taylor appeared in the film ''The Triumphs of a Man Called Horse''. In the 1993 film ''Gettysburg,'' he played William Gamble. In the 2003 production ''''Gods and Generals,'' Taylor was cast as Maxcy Gregg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Taylor,_Buck/Biography/ |title=Buck Taylor Biography |publisher=Starpulse.com |date=1938-05-13 |accessdate=2012-08-26}}</ref>
He appeared on CBS's ''Dallas" series and [[Chuch Norris]]'s ''Walker, Texas Ranger.''<ref name=buck/>
Taylor had a memorable role as "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson in the 1993 film, ''Tombstone'' and appeared in 1997 in the film, ''Rough Riders,'' both co-starring with Sam Elliott. He appeared in director John Lee Hancock's 2004 film, ''The Alamo'' and the Wyoming-based ''Flicka'' (2006), a loose adaptation of the novel ''My Friend Flicka,'' which was made into a 1956-1957 television series starring [[Johnny Washbrook]].<ref name=imdb>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852076/ Buck Taylor (I)]. imdb.com</ref>
He appeared as Ben Lily in January 2008 with his friend Val Kilmer in the CBS miniseries ''Comanche Moon,'' another in the ''Lonesome Dove'' line of television films. Taylor in 2008 worked in three films, ''The Hard Ride'', ''The Last Horseman'', and ''Legend of Hell's Gate''.<ref name=imdb/> While he was clean-shaven in Gunsmoke, like other cowboy actors, he later elected to sport a deep mustache.
Taylor's self-portrait hangs in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. Taylor is also an inductee of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth and has received the "Spirit of Texas" Award. In 1993, he received the Golden Boot award which honors the "Best of the West" from the Motion Picture and Television Fund. In 1998, Taylor, along with Rex Allen, won the "Cowboy Spirit Award".
In 2000, Taylor was memorialized in "The Trail of Fame" on the streets of [[Dodge City]], the western [[Kansas]] town where ''Gunsmoke'' is set. He has also received the "Spirit of the West" award, along with Jack Palance and [[Roy Rogers]]. Additionally, Taylor is recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with his friends Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross. Taylor's star also appears on the streets of "Little Hollywood" in Kanab, [[Utah]]. There, his star is between [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and [[Tom Mix]].
In 1981, Taylor was inducted as a trustee in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in [[Oklahoma City]] for his ''Gunsmoke'' role.<ref name=buck/> In 2006, he was awarded by the same organization with the "Wrangler" (or Western Heritage Award).<ref name=buck/> Taylor has a plaque on the Walk of Western Stars in Santa Clarita, California, that includes past recipients James Arness and other ''Gunsmoke'' alumni Dennis Weaver and Amanda Blake.<ref name=imdb/>
==Artistic pursuits==
In 1993, Taylor began selling his paintings at the National Finals Rodeo in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]]. These paintings are sold through his [[website]], private art shows and festivals, and at galleries. His private commissions can be found in the Loomis Fargo headquarters, the Franklin Min, John Wayne Enterprises, the American Quarter Horse Association Museum in [[Amarillo]], the National Ranching Heritage Center museum in [[Lubbock]], and in the hands of private collectors Roy Clark, Val Kilme, Roger Staubach, Powers Boothe, Sam Elliott, and James Arness. Taylor is the official artist for several rodeos, including the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, [[Oregon]], and state fairs.<ref name=buck/>
==Personal life==
In 1961, Taylor married the actress Judy Ann Nugent, a sister-in-law of actor Nick Adams.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637803/ Judy Nugent (I)]. imdb.com</ref> The couple [[divorced]] in 1983. They had three sons: Adam Carlyle Taylor (1966–1994), Matthew Taylor (born 1970), and Cooper Glenn Taylor (born 1975). Adam was an assistant director, and Matthew and Cooper are Hollywood stunt men who were reared in [[Montana]]. Taylor is the father-in-law of actress and film producer Anne Lockhart, the widow of Adam Taylor, who died three days before his 28th birthday in a highway accident in Madison County, Montana. Anne is the daughter of actress June Lockhart.<ref name=imdb/>
Taylor and current wife Goldie, a flight attendant, met in 1995 at a quarter horse show, where his paintings were being exhibited. They wed after a three-month courtship and run a ranch on the Brazos River in Texas.
Taylor supports the John Wayne Cancer Foundation, the Walt Garrison Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, the Future Farmers of America Scholarship], the Screen Actors Guild Retirement Home, the Ben Johnson Children's Hospital, and Frontier Texas!, a state-of-the-art museum]] for which Taylor does some of the narration. The museum opened in 2004 in [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]] in Taylor County (coincidence of the name) in West Texas.
==Referencs==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Buck}}
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Television]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]
| name=Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III<br>
(Actor best known as "Newly O'Brien" on ''Gunsmoke")
| birth_date=May 1, 1938
| birth_place =[[Hollywood]], [[Los Angeles]]<br>[[California]], USA
| website = http://www.bucktaylor.com/
|s spouse=(1) Judy Ann Nugent]] (married 1961–1983, divorced)<br>
Goldie Ann Taylor (married 1995)
}}
'''Walter Clarence Taylor, III''', known as '''Buck Taylor''' (born May 13, 1938), is an [[United States|American]] [[actor]] best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brien in 174 episodes during the last eight seasons of [[CBS]]'s ''Gunsmoke'' [[television]] series]]. In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and ''Gunsmoke'' star James Arness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bucktaylor.com/paintingpages/jarness.htm |title=Buck Taylor Paintings |publisher=Bucktaylor.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-26}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=tvcom>{{cite web|author=TV.com |url=http://www.tv.com/buck-taylor/person/33018/biography.html |title=Buck Taylor Bio – Buck Taylor Biography – Buck Taylor Stories |publisher=Tv.com |date=1938-05-13 |accessdate=August 26, 2012</ref>
==Background==
Taylor was born in [[Hollywood]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor, Jr. He has an older sister, Faydean Taylor Tharp (born ''circa'' 1931) of the Greater Los Angeles Area. His father was the character actor Dub Taylor, sometimes known as "Cannonball" Taylor, a native of [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]]. Buck Taylor was born in the same year 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 [[musician]]s [[Tex Ritter]] and [[Bob Wills]] and the Texas Playboys. Buck grew up on the various Hollywood sets and was close to his father's Texas friend, the western actor Chill Wills.<ref name=buck>[http://www.bucktaylor.com/files/bio.htm Buck Taylor | Actor and Western Artist | Biography]. bucktaylor.com</ref>
Taylor graduated from North Hollywood High School and studied theatre arts at the [[University of Southern California]] in Los Angeles. In 1960, he tried out for the [[Olympic Games]] in [[gymnastics]]. He served two years in the [[United States Navy]].<ref name=tvcom/>
==Acting career==
===Television and film roles===
Taylor's first acting role was as Trooper Shattuck in the 1961 episode "Image of a Drawn Sword" on CBS's ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.'' He appeared on the sitcoms ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' and ''My Favorite Martian.'' He was cast twice in the 1963-1964 ABC series ''The Greatest Show on Earth''. He portrayed Mickey Vecchione in the 1963 episode "My Son the Social Worker" on the television version of ''Going My Way.''
Taylor co-starred in the [[Walt Disney]] production, "Johnny Shiloh," the first of more than fifty films. He was then cast in an uncredited role in ''Ensign Pulver'' (1964) and in ''The Wild Angels'' (1966), as a [[motorcycle]] gang member. He guest starred on ''Have Gun - Will Travel'', ''The Rebel'', and three times on ''Stoney Burke.'' starring Jack Lord. He was cast on ''The Fugitive" and "The Legend of Jesse James]].'' He appeared as well on 'The Virginian.''. He also appeared as frustrated newlywed Gard Hayden in ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' in the 1964 episode titled "Don't Open Till Doomsday".
===Newly O'Brien on ''Gunsmoke''===
Taylor's long-term role on ''Gunsmoke'' was not his first role in a weekly series. In the preceding 1966–1967 season, he starred in ten episodes as John "Brad" Bradford, along with Michael Anderson, Jr.], and Barbara Hershey]in ABC's ''The Monroes,'' the story of an orphaned family trying to survive in the [[Wyoming]] wilderness.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060011/fullcredits#cast "The Monroes" (1966) – Full cast and crew]. imdb.com</ref>
''Gunsmoke'' introduced Taylor on a weekly basis to millions of viewers. Dub Taylor also guest-starred numerous times on the series. Before Taylor was cast as handsome young gunsmith "Newly," he had appeared in an earlier segment of the series as an outlaw. As Newly, however, he was clearly one of the "good guys" in the same tradition as James Arness as Matt Dillon. The Newly character superseded that of Clayton Thaddeus "Thad" Greenwood, played by Roger Ewing. Taylor got along so well with the ''Gunsmoke'' cast that he named his second and third sons Matthew Taylor and Cooper Glenn Taylor for James Arness' Matt Dilloon role and Glenn Strange (1899–1973), the character actor who played the bartender, Sam, and remained on the program until [[cancer]] claimed his life. Strange never knew of the honor, for Cooper Taylor was not born until 1975. Taylor was actively involved in the preparation of the script for the 1987 ''[unsmoke: Return to Dodge'' reunion film,<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Gunsmoke-Return-Dodge-James-Arness/dp/6302662346 Amazon.com: Gunsmoke- Return to Dodge] (VHS, 1987)</ref> by which time Milburn Stone, the cranky Doc Adams character, had died. Ken Curtis, who had portrayed the deputy Festus Haggen, felt shortchanged by the offer of far less pay than Amanda Blake and passed on the project. In 1991, Taylor co-starred with Curtis in what turned out to be Curtis' last acting role in the film version of [[Louis L'Amour]]'s ''Conagher,'' which also starred Taylor's friend [[Sam Elliott]] and Elliott's wife, Katharine Ross.<ref name=buck/>
===Acting after ''Gunsmoke''===
At the age of forty-three, Taylor was cast as the outlaw Dan Clifton, who died at thirty-one, in the 1981 film ''[[Cattle Annie and Little Britches]]'', a fictional portrayal of the teenaged bandits [[Cattle Annie]] and [[Little Britches]], played by Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane, respectively. Taylor is called "Dynamite Dick" in the film, but Clifton's nickname was "Dynamite Dan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082145/fullcredits|title=Cattle Annie and Little Britches|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 27, 2012}}</ref>
In 1983, Taylor appeared in the film ''The Triumphs of a Man Called Horse''. In the 1993 film ''Gettysburg,'' he played William Gamble. In the 2003 production ''''Gods and Generals,'' Taylor was cast as Maxcy Gregg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Taylor,_Buck/Biography/ |title=Buck Taylor Biography |publisher=Starpulse.com |date=1938-05-13 |accessdate=2012-08-26}}</ref>
He appeared on CBS's ''Dallas" series and [[Chuch Norris]]'s ''Walker, Texas Ranger.''<ref name=buck/>
Taylor had a memorable role as "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson in the 1993 film, ''Tombstone'' and appeared in 1997 in the film, ''Rough Riders,'' both co-starring with Sam Elliott. He appeared in director John Lee Hancock's 2004 film, ''The Alamo'' and the Wyoming-based ''Flicka'' (2006), a loose adaptation of the novel ''My Friend Flicka,'' which was made into a 1956-1957 television series starring [[Johnny Washbrook]].<ref name=imdb>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852076/ Buck Taylor (I)]. imdb.com</ref>
He appeared as Ben Lily in January 2008 with his friend Val Kilmer in the CBS miniseries ''Comanche Moon,'' another in the ''Lonesome Dove'' line of television films. Taylor in 2008 worked in three films, ''The Hard Ride'', ''The Last Horseman'', and ''Legend of Hell's Gate''.<ref name=imdb/> While he was clean-shaven in Gunsmoke, like other cowboy actors, he later elected to sport a deep mustache.
Taylor's self-portrait hangs in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. Taylor is also an inductee of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth and has received the "Spirit of Texas" Award. In 1993, he received the Golden Boot award which honors the "Best of the West" from the Motion Picture and Television Fund. In 1998, Taylor, along with Rex Allen, won the "Cowboy Spirit Award".
In 2000, Taylor was memorialized in "The Trail of Fame" on the streets of [[Dodge City]], the western [[Kansas]] town where ''Gunsmoke'' is set. He has also received the "Spirit of the West" award, along with Jack Palance and [[Roy Rogers]]. Additionally, Taylor is recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with his friends Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross. Taylor's star also appears on the streets of "Little Hollywood" in Kanab, [[Utah]]. There, his star is between [[Ronald W. Reagan]] and [[Tom Mix]].
In 1981, Taylor was inducted as a trustee in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in [[Oklahoma City]] for his ''Gunsmoke'' role.<ref name=buck/> In 2006, he was awarded by the same organization with the "Wrangler" (or Western Heritage Award).<ref name=buck/> Taylor has a plaque on the Walk of Western Stars in Santa Clarita, California, that includes past recipients James Arness and other ''Gunsmoke'' alumni Dennis Weaver and Amanda Blake.<ref name=imdb/>
==Artistic pursuits==
In 1993, Taylor began selling his paintings at the National Finals Rodeo in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]]. These paintings are sold through his [[website]], private art shows and festivals, and at galleries. His private commissions can be found in the Loomis Fargo headquarters, the Franklin Min, John Wayne Enterprises, the American Quarter Horse Association Museum in [[Amarillo]], the National Ranching Heritage Center museum in [[Lubbock]], and in the hands of private collectors Roy Clark, Val Kilme, Roger Staubach, Powers Boothe, Sam Elliott, and James Arness. Taylor is the official artist for several rodeos, including the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, [[Oregon]], and state fairs.<ref name=buck/>
==Personal life==
In 1961, Taylor married the actress Judy Ann Nugent, a sister-in-law of actor Nick Adams.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637803/ Judy Nugent (I)]. imdb.com</ref> The couple [[divorced]] in 1983. They had three sons: Adam Carlyle Taylor (1966–1994), Matthew Taylor (born 1970), and Cooper Glenn Taylor (born 1975). Adam was an assistant director, and Matthew and Cooper are Hollywood stunt men who were reared in [[Montana]]. Taylor is the father-in-law of actress and film producer Anne Lockhart, the widow of Adam Taylor, who died three days before his 28th birthday in a highway accident in Madison County, Montana. Anne is the daughter of actress June Lockhart.<ref name=imdb/>
Taylor and current wife Goldie, a flight attendant, met in 1995 at a quarter horse show, where his paintings were being exhibited. They wed after a three-month courtship and run a ranch on the Brazos River in Texas.
Taylor supports the John Wayne Cancer Foundation, the Walt Garrison Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, the Future Farmers of America Scholarship], the Screen Actors Guild Retirement Home, the Ben Johnson Children's Hospital, and Frontier Texas!, a state-of-the-art museum]] for which Taylor does some of the narration. The museum opened in 2004 in [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]] in Taylor County (coincidence of the name) in West Texas.
==Referencs==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Buck}}
[[Category:California]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Television]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Actors]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]