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Joe Don Baker, actor who wielded a big stick in ‘Walking Tall,’ dies at 89
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 tough ...
Los Angeles Times6d
Joe Don Baker, actor who wielded a big stick in ‘Walking Tall,’ dies at 89
“The initial ads had me coming out of a swamp with slime coming off me and I had this little stick in my hand,” Baker told The Times in 2004, when a significantly reimagined “Walking Tall ...
BBC6d
Snake and Budha Carving
The carving was made by a Japanese prisoner of war in Burma during World War II. The item was originally given to Frederick Collins after he helped liberate a prison camp. Frederick received the ...
Decatur Daily4d
Joe Don Baker, actor who wielded a big stick in ‘Walking Tall,’ dies at 89
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.