Joe Don Baker

Poll: What’s Your Favorite Joe Don Baker Film Performance?

Earlier this month popular character actor and ’70s action hero Joe Don Baker passed away at the age of 89. Whether he was swinging a mean hickory club as Tennessee lawman Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, stalking victims as…

Joe Don Baker: Here’s to “The Whammer”

05.16.25 | Gary Cahall | Tags: 1970s Movies, Character Actors, Joe Don Baker, Walking Tall | no comments

It’s kind of funny. One of my favorite movie memories of gruff and tough character actor Joe Don Baker features him wielding a baseball bat. And no, I don’t mean his 1973 starring turn as real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser…