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Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, and CIA agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Joe Don Baker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Joe Don Baker |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Groesbeck, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1936-02-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday |
Joe Don Baker Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Final Justice | Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III | 1985-05-30 | Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the… |
| Walking Tall | Buford Pusser | 1973-02-22 | Buford Pusser’s a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with hi… |
| Mitchell | Mitchell | 1975-09-10 | A tough-guy cop (Joe Don Baker) pursues two drug runners (Martin Balsam, John Saxon) across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-her… |
| Joysticks | Joseph Rutter | 1983-03-04 | A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children…. |
| Framed | Ron Lewis | 1975-08-01 | Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind … |
| The Shadow of Chikara | Wishbone Cutter | 1977-01-01 | Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure…. |
| Speedtrap | Pete Novick | 1978-02-17 | After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve the case. While the chief of police isn’t thrilled … |
| Wacko | Dick Harbinger | 1982-11-12 | Thirteen years after the “Lawnmower Killer” killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou… |
| The Pack | Jerry | 1977-11-20 | The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs — the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers…. |
| Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Danny | 1972-01-01 | Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing…. |
| Checkered Flag or Crash | Walkaway Madden | 1977-01-01 | Hard-charging race car driver “Walkaway” Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the… |
| Golden Needles | Dan Mason | 1974-07-17 | An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his pla… |
| The Abduction of Kari Swenson | 1987-01-01 | Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two “Mountain Men” while jogging in the foothills of the Rockies… | |
| Power | Tommy Vanda | 1980-01-14 | Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade… |
| Vegas, City of Dreams | Dylan Garrett | 2001-04-01 | When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as suicide. However, her three sisters begin their o… |
| To Kill a Cop | Chief Earl M. Eischied | 1978-04-10 | Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are o… |
| Defrosting the Fridge | Hunter McCall | 1989-03-26 | An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team…. |
| Fletch | Chief Jerry Karlin | 1985-05-31 | When investigative reporter Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he’s approached by wealthy bu… |
| Charley Varrick | Molly | 1973-09-19 | Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large … |
| Citizen Cohn | Sen. Joseph McCarthy | 1992-08-22 | As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves… |
| Complex of Fear | Det. Frank Farrel | 1993-01-12 | Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their m… |
| To Dance with Olivia | Horace Henley | 1997-03-09 | A lawyer trying to cope with his son’s accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgu… |
| Leonard Part 6 | Snyderburn | 1987-12-18 | After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da… |
| The Outfit | Cody | 1973-10-01 | A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother’s death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsucc… |
| Getting Even | King R. Kenderson | 1986-02-21 | A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out … |
| Adam at Six A.M. | Harvey Gavin | 1970-09-22 | A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative’s death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the… |
| That Certain Summer | Phil Bonner | 1972-11-01 | The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit … |
| The Living Daylights | Brad Whitaker | 1987-06-29 | After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the… |
| The Distinguished Gentleman | Olaf Andersen | 1992-12-04 | A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his vers… |
| George Wallace | Big Jim Folsom | 1997-08-24 | George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer… |
| GoldenEye | Jack Wade | 1995-11-16 | When a powerful Russian satellite weapon is hijacked by a mysterious crime syndicate, it’s up to James Bond, with the help of programmer Natalya Simon… |
| Cape Fear | Claude Kersek | 1991-11-13 | Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14… |
| Junior Bonner | Curly Bonner | 1972-08-02 | With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memor… |
| The Killing Time | Carl Cunningham | 1987-10-23 | After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California town, he assumes the deputy’s identity and arri… |
| The Underneath | Clay Hinkle | 1995-04-28 | Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas to his mother who’s starting a new life, to his brother whose driven by old jealousies, and to Rachelâ… |
| The Children | Cliffe Wheater | 1990-05-18 | Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relati… |
| The Commission | Rep. Hale Boggs | 2003-11-07 | Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination o… |
| Criminal Law | Det. Carl Mesel | 1988-01-01 | A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previousl… |
| Wild Rovers | Paul Buckman | 1971-06-23 | Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman’s R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he’s too ol… |
| Mongo’s Back in Town | Mongo Nash | 1971-12-10 | Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster…. |
| Felony | Donovan | 1994-10-19 | A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the camera… |
| Congo | R.B. Travis | 1995-06-09 | Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers… |
| Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Slater | 1969-07-14 | In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Mich… |
| Poodle Springs | P.J. Parker | 1998-07-25 | Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme…. |
| Ring of Steel | Man in black | 1994-03-30 | A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger save… |
| Reality Bites | Tom Pierce | 1994-02-18 | A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As… |
| The Natural | The Whammer (“Il Martello”) | 1984-05-11 | An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea… |
| The Grass Harp | Sheriff Junius Candle | 1995-09-10 | Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in … |
| Mud | King | 2013-04-26 | Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape…. |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | Jack Wade | 1997-12-11 | A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world’s superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas… |
| Strange Wilderness | Bill Calhoun | 2008-02-01 | With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot…. |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Governor Jim Applewhite | 2005-08-05 | Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from bein… |
| Inside ‘The Living Daylights’ | Self | 2000-10-17 | A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film “The Living Daylights”… |
| Cool Hand Luke | Fixer | 1967-06-22 | When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the… |
| Joe Dirt | Don, Brandy’s Dad | 2001-04-10 | Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligere… |
| The Valachi Papers | Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited) | 1972-01-06 | When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful at… |
| Mars Attacks! | Glenn Norris | 1996-12-12 | A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world’s major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim… |
| Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 | An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western… |
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