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Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western "Wild Rovers" (1971), before receiving worldwide fame for his roles as a mafia hitman in "Charley Varrick" (1973), real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the classic action film "Walking Tall" (1973), brute force detective Mitchell in "Mitchell" (1975), deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in "Final Justice" (1985), and as chief Jerry Karlin in the action-comedy "Fletch" (1985).