Legendary actor Joe Don Baker might be best remembered for his action movie roles in the 1970s, but his six-decade career saw him play a wide variety of unique characters. The Texas-born performer got ...

Joe Don Baker, the actor best known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 movie 'Walking Tall,' dies at 89. His career spanned nearly 50 years.

The Texan also was memorable in 'Junior Bonner' and 'Charley Varrick' and as two different characters — one good guy, one bad ...

Actor Joe Don Baker – best known for his lead role in 1973 film Walking Tall and for starring in three different James Bond films – has died at the age of 89. Baker appeared in The Living ...

Joe Don Baker, the prolific character actor who appeared in Seventies classics like Walking Tall and Junior Bonner and a trio of James Bond movies, has died at the age of 89. The Groesbeck ...

The late, great Joe Don Baker helped usher James Bond into his post-Cold War reality and he did it with a smile and a corny ...

Actor Joe Don Baker, best known for his role as Sheriff Buford ... most notably apparent in his appearance in three James Bond films in which he played two different characters on both sides ...

Actor Joe Don Baker died at age 89 on May 7 ... 1985 movie “Edge of Darkness,” and again for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for the film “George Wallace.” Baker was married from 1969 ...

Joe Don Baker, the actor who as the real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall carried a big stick to mete out his own Tennessee brand of justice, died May 7 ...