Joe Don Baker 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).
Joe Don Baker
Active - 1967 - 2013 |
Genres - Drama, Action-Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Comedy
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Subgenres - Neo-Noir, Spy Film, Western Film, LGBT-Related Film, Parody Film
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Neo-Noir, Spy Film, Western Film, LGBT-Related Film, Parody Film, Biographical Film, Coming-Of-Age Fiction, Heist Film, Spy, Action Comedy Film, Action Thriller, African- Biographical Dramas, Baseball, Chase, Comedy Drama, Comedy Horror, Courtroom, Detective Film, Female Buddy Film, Gangster Film, Martial Arts Film, Monster Film, Political Satire, Prison Film, Psychological Horror Film, Psychological Thriller Film, Romantic Comedy, Spaghetti Western, Vigilante Film