The film world lost one of its greatest character actors when Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. died Oct. 3, 1994, at the age of 87, and Augusta lost one of its former citizens. Most people never forgot Mr. Taylor's grizzled face and gravelly voice from his famous Hubba Bubba bubble gum commercials, his countless television shows and his more than 500 movies including Auntie Mame, Parrish, How the West was Won, The Wild Bunch and No Time For Sergeants.He especially is remembered for his role in Bonnie & Clyde as actor Michael J. Pollard's father, the old guy who told the cops where to catch the bank-robbing duo.

Mr. Taylor was 5 when he moved to Augusta with his family. They lived on Gardner and Henry streets and also Johns Road before moving away at 13 to enter a military school in Greenville, S.C. He spent much of his growing up years living in Augusta where his father was a cotton broker in the Cotton Exchange building on Reynolds Street. One of his best friends was Ty Cobb Jr. and he spent many nights sleeping in the Cobb home on Williams Street.

"I don't care about winning an Oscar," he later said. "I'm just an actor who can play parts and make people believe them."