Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Birthday: 1936-02-12

Place of Birth: Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Biography: Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 - May 7, 2025) was 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.

Movies

Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra...

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Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

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The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigne...

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GoldenEye
GoldenEye

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former all...

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Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against eac...

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Poodle Springs
Poodle Springs

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme....

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Congo
Congo

Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa, wher...

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The Distinguished Gentleman
The Distinguished Gentleman

A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just ...

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Reality Bites
Reality Bites

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about li...

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Junior Bonner
Junior Bonner

With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck...

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The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard

Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running U...

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The Natural
The Natural

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take ...

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Leonard Part 6
Leonard Part 6

After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurate...

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The Killing Time
The Killing Time

After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small Californ...

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Walking Tall
Walking Tall

Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles wit...

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Mitchell
Mitchell

A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an an...

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Fletch
Fletch

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug tra...

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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Guns of the Magnificent Seven

When Quintero, a Mexican revolutionary leader, is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Dia...

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The Outfit
The Outfit

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time cr...

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Joysticks
Joysticks

A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental h...

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Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amoun...

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Strange Wilderness
Strange Wilderness

With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search...

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Criminal Law
Criminal Law

Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile m...

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Wild Rovers
Wild Rovers

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods ...

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George Wallace
George Wallace

George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor...

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Framed
Framed

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system le...

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The Shadow of Chikara
The Shadow of Chikara

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a nativ...

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The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi...

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Ring of Steel
Ring of Steel

A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the f...

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Citizen Cohn
Citizen Cohn

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...

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Speedtrap
Speedtrap

After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve t...

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Wacko
Wacko

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and o...

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The Pack
The Pack

The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remna...

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Getting Even
Getting Even

A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be...

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Adam at Six A.M.
Adam at Six A.M.

A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's d...

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Mud
Mud

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reuni...

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Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing....

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That Certain Summer
That Certain Summer

The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor...

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Checkered Flag or Crash
Checkered Flag or Crash

Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from c...

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Golden Needles
Golden Needles

An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points i...

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Mongo's Back in Town
Mongo's Back in Town

Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster....

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Felony
Felony

A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of ...

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Defrosting the Fridge
Defrosting the Fridge

The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and p...

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Abduction
Abduction

Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain ...

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Joe Dirt
Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that h...

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Complex of Fear
Complex of Fear

Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally r...

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Panther
Panther

In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as ...

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The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The Siege at Ruby Ridge

A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of ...

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To Dance with Olivia
To Dance with Olivia

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged wi...

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Power
Power

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a...

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The Underneath
The Underneath

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and...

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Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if...

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The Children
The Children

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe ...

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Inside The Living Daylights
Inside The Living Daylights

The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for...

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Vegas, City of Dreams
Vegas, City of Dreams

When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as...

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The Valachi Papers
The Valachi Papers

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p...

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Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Inside 'The Living Daylights'

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"...

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The Commission
The Commission

Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren ...

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...

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To Kill a Cop
To Kill a Cop

Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying...

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Final Justice
Final Justice

Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rura...

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