Joe Don Baker

AKA: جو دان بیکر, Джо Дон Бейкер
1.8521

1936-02-12

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.

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Fixer

1967-11-01 7.743

Cool Hand Luke

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 yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Self

2007-02-03 0

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich her ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Claude Kersek

1991-11-13 7.3

Cape Fear

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 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Brad Whitaker

1987-06-29 6.539

The Living Daylights

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 KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Thriller

Jack Wade

1995-11-16 6.899

GoldenEye

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one shor ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Wade

1997-12-11 6.374

Tomorrow Never Dies

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 mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

P.J. Parker

1998-07-25 5.375

Poodle Springs

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Crime, Mystery

R.B. Travis

1995-06-09 5.58

Congo

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 berserk. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Olaf Andersen

1992-12-04 6.033

The Distinguished Gentleman

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 to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, whe ...
Genre :Comedy

Tom Pierce

1994-02-18 6.559

Reality Bites

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 they struggle to map out survival guides for the ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Curly Bonner

1972-07-21 6.094

Junior Bonner

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 memories are shattered when he finds his family torn ap ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Governor Jim Applewhite

2005-08-05 5.6

The Dukes of Hazzard

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 being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commission ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Action

The Whammer

1984-05-11 6.9

The Natural

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 league. ...
Genre :Drama

Snyderburn

1987-12-18 2.736

Leonard Part 6

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 daughter, who changes her career more often than her ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Carl Cunningham

1987-10-23 4.882

The Killing Time

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 arrives in town to start his new 'job'. What he doesn' ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Mystery, Romance

Buford Pusser

1973-02-22 6.6

Walking Tall

Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Mitchell

1975-09-10 3.2

Mitchell

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 superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Chief Jerry Karlin

1985-05-31 6.733

Fletch

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 businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Slater

1969-07-14 5.284

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

When Quintero, a Mexican revolutionary leader, is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Diaz, it's up to his subordinate, Max, to bust him out. With $600 in hand, he crosses the border into A ...
Genre :Western

Jack Cody

1973-10-19 6.8

The Outfit

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 unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair o ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Joseph Rutter

1983-03-04 4.526

Joysticks

A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children. ...
Genre :Comedy

Molly

1973-09-19 7.343

Charley Varrick

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 amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action

Bill Calhoun

2008-02-01 4.888

Strange Wilderness

With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Detective Mesel

1989-04-28 5.556

Criminal Law

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 on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The ver ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Paul Buckman

1971-06-23 6.191

Wild Rovers

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 old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and am ...
Genre :Action, Western

Big Jim Folsom

1997-08-24 6.8

George Wallace

George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Wi ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Ron Lewis

1975-08-01 6.6

Framed

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 bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's dete ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Wishbone Cutter

1977-07-15 4.4

The Shadow of Chikara

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders. ...
Genre :Horror, Western

Sheriff Junius Candle

1996-10-11 5.8

The Grass Harp

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 the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin move ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

Man in Black

1994-03-30 4.769

Ring of Steel

A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He so ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

1992-08-22 6.022

Citizen Cohn

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. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, History

Pete Novick

1977-09-01 5.5

Speedtrap

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 about having an outsider come and show up his men, ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Dick Harbinger

1982-11-12 5

Wacko

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Hal ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Jerry

1977-11-20 6.8

The Pack

The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers. ...
Genre :Horror, Adventure, Thriller

King R. Kenderson

1986-02-21 2.429

Getting Even

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 about it and sets out to steal it. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Harvey Gavin

1970-09-22 4.458

Adam at Six A.M.

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 funeral, then decides to spend the summer there a ...
Genre :Drama

King

2013-04-26 7.063

Mud

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 and their armed posse. ...
Genre :Drama

Danny

1971-12-10 3

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

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

Phil Bonner

1972-11-01 6.531

That Certain Summer

The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Walkaway Madden

1977-05-21 4

Checkered Flag or Crash

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 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright in ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy

Dan Mason

1974-07-17 4.7

Golden Needles

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 plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is t ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Mongo Nash

1971-12-10 4.8

Mongo's Back in Town

Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster. ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama, TV Movie

Donovan

1994-10-19 4.188

Felony

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 cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters an ...
Genre :Thriller, Action

Hunter McCall

1989-03-26 1

Defrosting the Fridge

The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sheriff Onstad

1987-03-08 5.5

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

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 in Montana. ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie, Drama

Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

2001-04-10 5.615

Joe Dirt

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 belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blast ...
Genre :Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama

Det. Frank Farrel

1993-01-12 6.4

Complex of Fear

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 midst. A police manhunt ensues. One officer, who ac ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie, Mystery, Crime

Brimmer

1995-05-03 6.2

Panther

In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Gerry Spence

1996-05-19 5.1

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

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 siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Horace

1997-03-09 0

To Dance with Olivia

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 shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in c ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Tommy Vanda

1980-01-14 2

Power

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 leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Clay Hinkle

1995-04-28 5.663

The Underneath

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Glenn Norris

1996-12-13 6.416

Mars Attacks!

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, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale recei ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Cliffe Wheater

1990-05-18 3.8

The Children

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 relationship. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2000-10-17 8

Inside The Living Daylights

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

Dylan Garrett

2001-04-01 2

Vegas, City of Dreams

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 own investigation, which leads them to Byron Lord a ...
Genre :Drama

Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

1972-01-06 6.5

The Valachi Papers

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 attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2000-10-17 6.2

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

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

Rep. Hale Boggs

2003-11-07 1

The Commission

Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. ...
Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

2004-07-25 7.8

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 whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever. ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Chief Earl M. Eischied

1978-04-10 0

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 to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action, TV Movie

Geronimo

1984-10-28 2.5

Final Justice

Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Alex Drake

1965-09-19 5.391

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1968-09-24 6.2

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy L ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Woody Stoner

1955-09-10 6.6

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

1966-09-17 7.563

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible M ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1967-03-28 6.8

Ironside

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1966-09-12 6.4

Felony Squad

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Yuma

1967-09-10 6.604

The High Chaparral

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in associati ...
Genre :Western, Drama

1968-09-24 4.7

Lancer

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arran ...
Genre :Western

Tom Lightfoot

1965-09-15 6.145

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century Califor ...
Genre :Western, Drama

1967-09-08 7.5

Judd for the Defense

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S. ...
Genre :Drama

Darius Jedburgh

1985-11-04 8.1

Edge of Darkness

Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Rocky Hansen

1965-09-17 7

Honey West

After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Earl Eischied

1979-09-21 6

Eischied

Eischied is an American crime drama broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1979 to January 20, 1980. It was based on the starring character from the 1978 miniseries To Kill a Cop, which was based on the ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Chief Earl Eischied

1978-04-10 0

To Kill a Cop

Police drama concerning a maverick chief of detectives dealing with two cop killings and a spate of bank robberies. He's also fighting a back stabbing police commissioner and a revolutionary leader pl ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Tom Butler

1955-09-10 6.6

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

Buck Duke

1999-02-21 2

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

On her deathbed, Doris Duke, the world's wealthiest woman, recalls her lavish, tumultuous years as a young socialite. ...
Genre :Drama

Luke Harper

1959-09-12 7.504

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Billy Joe Corey

1968-09-18 5.2

The Outsider

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The seri ...
Genre :Drama

Aaron Hickey

1973-10-10 0

Doc Elliot

Doc Elliot is an American medical drama that aired from March 5, 1973 until May 1, 1974. ...
Genre :Drama

Big Jim Folsom

1997-08-24 0

George Wallace

The miniseries follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful governor in Alabama's history. It depict ...
Genre :Drama