Buck Taylor

Actor May 13 (age 87) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States 1954–2025 (71 year career)

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Biography

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 o…

Known For

Film

Hell or High Water

Old Man

Film

The Mist

Ambrose Cornell

Film

Tombstone

Turkey Creek Jack Johnson

Film

Cowboys & Aliens

Wes Claiborne

Film

Wild Wild West

Cross-Eyed Reb

Film

Gettysburg

Col. William Gamble

Film

Flicka

6.9 2006

Film

Gods and Generals

Gen. Maxcy Gregg

Filmography

Acting (78)

Movies (57)

Sod and Stubble

2025

Buffalo Daze

2025

3.0

Two Sinners and a Mule

2023

as Sheriff Cleetus

6.4

The Contested Plains

2022

as Rufus Brown

Trading Paint

as Ben

Hell or High Water

as Old Man

Bender

as Sheriff J.E. Stone

Indiscretion

as Abe

Rodeo and Juliet

as Judge Lawrence

Canyon Trail

as Marshal Trevor Cooper

1.0

Cowboys & Aliens

2011

as Wes Claiborne

5.6

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy

2011

as Pete Snyder

4.2

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

as Self

The Mist

as Ambrose Cornell

Flicka

Hell to Pay

as Dr. Adam Galen

The Wendell Baker Story

2005

as Bob Draper

5.0

Miracle at Sage Creek

as Buckskin Charlie

Truce

as Harry Dodds

The Trail to Hope Rose

as Parson Brown

Gods and Generals

as Gen. Maxcy Gregg

The Making of Comanche

2000

as Self

Jericho

2000

as Pap Doolin

4.4

Comanche

2000

as Capt. Myles Keogh

Wild Wild West

as Cross-Eyed Reb

The Soul Collector

as Charlie

Hard Time

as Capt. Adam Gunther

Dallas: J.R. Returns

as Steve Grisham

Tombstone

as Turkey Creek Jack Johnson

7.6

Gettysburg

1993

as Col. William Gamble

Payback

as Nick

Conagher

Big Bad John

as Bob Simmons

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

1989

as Wes Porter

9.5

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

as Buck Smith

Timestalkers

as Shaving Cowboy

Proud Men

as Homer

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

1987

as Newly

6.4

T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport

1986

as Off. Phillips

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

as Grey

Wild Horses

as Cowboy

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

as Sgt. Bridges

Dangerous Company

as Petrie

Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail

1981

as Laird

10.0

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

1981

as Dynamite Dick

6.4

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

1981

as Robert Edward Gattlin

Beartooth

Doc Hooker's Bunch

as Mike Lassiter

Standing Tall

1978

as George Fewster

4.0

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

as Joe

Pony Express Rider

as Bovey Kingman

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967

as Poolside Interviewer 2 (uncredited)

Devil's Angels

as Gage

The Wild Angels

as Dear John

And Now Miguel

as Gabriel

Johnny Shiloh

1965

as Josh

7.5

Ensign Pulver

1964

as Mannion (uncredited)

6.6

Television (21)

Yellowstone

as Emmett Walsh

Rectify

as Zeke

Comanche Moon

as Ben Lily

Crazy like a Fox

as Blake

T. J. Hooker

as Sam Rand

Matt Houston

as Renfield

Wild Times

as McBride

Knots Landing

as Fred Morgan

The Sacketts

as Reed Carney

The Fugitive

as Jamie

The Outer Limits

as Gard Hayden

My Favorite Martian

as Bruce Baker

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Dancer Smith

The Virginian

as Lem Bliss

Stoney Burke

as Mule

My Three Sons

as Howard Sears

The Rebel

as Gunman

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Eddie

Wagon Train

as Skeeter Ames

Gunsmoke

as Leonard Parker

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Josh

7.8