Joe Don Baker Dies: ‘Walking Tall’ Actor Was 89

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, his family has announced. He was 89. A cause of death was not disclosed. Born February 12, 1936, in Groesbeck, […]