Joe Don Baker
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.6616 |
| Birthday | 1936-02-12 |
| Place of Birth | Groesbeck, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | جو دان بیکر, Джо Дон Бейкер, |
1967
Cool Hand Luke
7.733/1662
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...
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Cool Hand Luke
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
0/0
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
1991
Cape Fear
7.26/3986
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...
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Cape Fear
1995
GoldenEye
6.904/4446
When a powerful secret defense system is stolen, James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using it.
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GoldenEye
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
6.383/3525
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...
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Tomorrow Never Dies
1987
The Living Daylights
6.547/2080
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...
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The Living Daylights
1998
Poodle Springs
5.5/25
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
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Poodle Springs
1995
Congo
5.615/1010
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 ber...
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Congo
1992
The Distinguished Gentleman
6.007/336
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected...
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The Distinguished Gentleman
1994
Reality Bites
6.54/809
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...
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Reality Bites
1972
Junior Bonner
6.1/119
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...
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Junior Bonner
2005
The Dukes of Hazzard
5.616/1343
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...
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The Dukes of Hazzard
1984
The Natural
6.926/690
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...
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The Natural
1987
Leonard Part 6
2.856/73
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter,...
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Leonard Part 6
1987
The Killing Time
5.027/37
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...
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The Killing Time
1973
Walking Tall
6.6/148
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Walking Tall
1975
Mitchell
3.255/47
A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his...
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Mitchell
1985
Fletch
6.751/792
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...
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Fletch
1969
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
5.364/121
When Mexican revolutionary leader Quintero is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Diaz, it's up to his subordinate, Max, to bust him out. W...
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1973
The Outfit
6.752/101
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...
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The Outfit
1973
Charley Varrick
7.368/295
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...
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Charley Varrick
1983
Joysticks
4.444/81
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
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Joysticks
2008
Strange Wilderness
4.863/256
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
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Strange Wilderness
1989
Criminal Law
5.613/137
Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man...
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Criminal Law
1971
Wild Rovers
6.144/52
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...
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Wild Rovers
1997
George Wallace
6.8/16
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer...
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George Wallace
1975
Framed
6.6/18
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...
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Framed
1977
The Shadow of Chikara
4.618/17
Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.
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The Shadow of Chikara
1996
The Grass Harp
5.9/34
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...
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The Grass Harp
1994
Ring of Steel
4.9/17
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger save...
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Ring of Steel
1992
Citizen Cohn
6.315/27
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...
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Citizen Cohn
1977
Speedtrap
6.333/3
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...
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Speedtrap
1982
Wacko
5.088/34
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou...
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Wacko
1977
The Pack
6.783/30
The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.
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The Pack
1986
Getting Even
3.375/8
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...
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Getting Even
1970
Adam at Six A.M.
4.885/13
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...
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Adam at Six A.M.
2013
Mud
7.06/3123
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...
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Mud
1971
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
5.2/5
Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.
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Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1972
That Certain Summer
6.559/17
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit...
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That Certain Summer
1977
Checkered Flag or Crash
4.6/7
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000...
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Checkered Flag or Crash
1974
Golden Needles
5.3/13
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...
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Golden Needles
1971
Mongo's Back in Town
6.1/5
Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
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Mongo's Back in Town
1996
Felony
4.833/9
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...
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Felony
1989
Defrosting the Fridge
3/3
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be thei...
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Defrosting the Fridge
1987
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
6/3
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...
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The Abduction of Kari Swenson
2001
Joe Dirt
5.649/832
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...
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Joe Dirt
1993
Complex of Fear
6.833/6
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...
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Complex of Fear
1995
Panther
6.298/47
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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Panther
1996
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
5.385/13
A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day sieg...
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The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1997
To Dance with Olivia
8/2
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...
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To Dance with Olivia
1995
The Underneath
5.679/92
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...
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The Underneath
1996
Mars Attacks!
6.431/6003
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...
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Mars Attacks!
2000
Inside The Living Daylights
8/1
The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for a new generation.
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Inside The Living Daylights
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
3.4/5
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...
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Vegas, City of Dreams
1972
The Valachi Papers
6.521/118
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...
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The Valachi Papers
2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
6.667/6
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"
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Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2003
The Commission
4.5/2
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination o...
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The Commission
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
8/9
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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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
1978
To Kill a Cop
0/0
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...
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To Kill a Cop
1984
Final Justice
2.688/40
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geroni...
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Final Justice
1990
The Children
4.9/4
After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose Sella...
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