You kicked it into high gear with a two-fisted gusto that any true man would admire.
The original Walking Tall, in which you play the legendary Sheriff Buford Pusser, was your biggest (and some would say your best), but you seized other significant achievements throughout your career: Mitchell; Charley Varrick, Congo, Mars Attacks!, The Shadow of Chikara (Curse of Demon Mountain), Wild Rovers, Junior Bonner, Guns of the Magnificent Seven; Edge of Darkness, Ring of Steel, Cape Fear 1991, Complex of Fear, The Underneath, Golden Needles, Mud, Fletch, Framed, Felony, Panther, Power, Framed, Wacko, Checkered Flag or Crash, Speedtrap, The Dukes of Hazzard 2005, Vegas City of Dreams, Poodle Springs, Strange Wilderness, Final Justice, The Grass Harp, The Children 1990, Reality Bites, Joe Dirt, The Distinguished Gentleman, The Pack, The Commission, The Outfit, The Natural, That Certain Summer, The Abduction of Kari Swenson, To Kill a Cop, Citizen Cohn, George Wallace, The Siege of Ruby Ridge, To Dance with Olivia, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke, Mongo's Back in Town, Cool Hand Luke and then there's that fabulous, 007 trio, The Living Daylights (with Timothy Dalton), GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies (with Pierce Brosnan).
You piled up a big chunk of television guest shots, too, with Lancer, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Big Valley, The High Chaparral, Iron Horse, The Outsider, Mission: Impossible, Honey West, Judd for the Defense, The Felony Squad, Mod Squad, The F.B.I., Bracken's World, The Streets of San Francisco, Doc Elliot, Ironside, Screen Two, The Cleaner, The Most Deadly Game, In the Heat of the Night and as the series' titular lead in Eischied.
You lived a long, full life, Mr. Baker, with your many accomplishments now set to live well beyond you: the surefire sign of a man who's proven his worth.
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