<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> 3 (1 deceased) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> http://www.bucktaylor.com/ </Td> </Tr> <P> Walter Clarence Taylor, III, known as Buck Taylor (born May 13, 1938), is an 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 (1967--1975). In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and Gunsmoke series' star 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 . </P> <P> 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, and 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 musicians 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 . </P>

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