LOS ANGELES -- Joe Don Baker, the leading man turned character actor who broke out playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 movie "Walking Tall," has died, his family announced online. The Texas-born ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Don Baker, who portrayed McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser in the movie "Walking Tall" visits Nashville on Aug. 23, 1974 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on February 12, 1936, in Groesbeck, Texas, Baker served two years in the U.S. Army before studying acting at the Actor’s ...

Actor Joe Don Baker, who starred as a crusading Tennessee sheriff in the 1973 film “Walking Tall,” died on May 7, his family announced. He was 89. Baker, who also had roles in three films from the ...

Joe Don Baker, a strapping Texan who found fame in Hollywood as a quintessential tough guy, delivering his most memorable performance as the crime-busting sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 film ...

Joe Don Baker as a rogue CIA agent in the BBC’s acclaimed 1985 nuclear power drama Edge of Darkness - Alamy ​Joe Don Baker, the actor, who has died aged 89, was one of film and ...