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Joe Don Baker

1936–2025 · American actor

Joe Don Baker was an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles in the Westerns Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973).

Joe Don Baker, in order

  1. 1967 Cool Hand Luke: acted · directed by Stuart Rosenberg
  2. 1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven: acted · directed by Paul Wendkos
  3. 1970 Adam at Six A.M.: acted · directed by Robert Scheerer · audiences 38%
  4. 1971 Mongo's Back in Town (TV movie): acted · directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
  5. 1971 Welcome Home, Soldier Boys: acted · directed by Richard Compton
  6. 1971 Wild Rovers: acted · directed by Blake Edwards · critics 60%, audiences 46% · streaming on Tubi
  7. 1972 Junior Bonner: acted · directed by Sam Peckinpah · critics 91%, audiences 62%
  8. 1973 Charley Varrick: acted · directed by Don Siegel
  9. 1973 The Outfit: acted · directed by John Flynn
  10. 1973 Walking Tall: acted · directed by Phil Karlson · critics 77%, audiences 71% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  11. 1974 Golden Needles: acted · directed by Robert Clouse
  12. 1975 Framed: acted · directed by Phil Karlson · audiences 47%
  13. 1975 Mitchell: acted · directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
  14. 1977 Checkered Flag or Crash: acted · directed by Alan Gibson
  15. 1977 Speedtrap: acted · directed by Earl Bellamy · streaming on Tubi
  16. 1977 The Shadow of Chikara: acted · directed by Earl E. Smith
  17. 1979 Eischied (TV series): acted · directed by Gary Nelson
  18. 1982 Wacko: acted · directed by Greydon Clark
  19. 1984 Final Justice: acted · directed by Greydon Clark
  20. 1984 The Natural: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 82%, audiences 88%
  21. 1985 Edge of Darkness (TV series): acted · directed by Martin Campbell
  22. 1985 Fletch: acted · directed by Michael Ritchie · critics 81%, audiences 81% · streaming on Prime Video
  23. 1986 Getting Even: acted · directed by Dwight H. Little
  24. 1987 Leonard Part 6: acted · directed by Paul Weiland
  25. 1987 The Killing Time: acted · directed by Rick King
  26. 1987 The Living Daylights: acted · directed by John Glen
  27. 1988 Criminal Law: acted · directed by Martin Campbell · critics 30%, audiences 27% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  28. 1990 The Children: acted · directed by Tony Palmer
  29. 1991 Cape Fear: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 77%, audiences 77% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  30. 1992 The Distinguished Gentleman: acted · directed by Jonathan Lynn
  31. 1994 Reality Bites: acted · directed by Ben Stiller
  32. 1994 Ring of Steel: acted · directed by David Frost
  33. 1995 Congo: acted · directed by Frank Marshall · critics 25%, audiences 30% · streaming on Paramount+, Hoopla
  34. 1995 GoldenEye: acted · directed by Martin Campbell · critics 80%, audiences 83% · streaming on Prime Video, MGM+
  35. 1995 Panther: acted · directed by Mario Van Peebles · critics 30%, audiences 76%
  36. 1995 The Underneath: acted · directed by Steven Soderbergh · critics 63%, audiences 40%
  37. 1996 Mars Attacks!: acted · directed by Tim Burton · critics 57%, audiences 53% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Kanopy
  38. 1997 George Wallace (TV movie): acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · audiences 65%
  39. 1997 Tomorrow Never Dies: acted · directed by Roger Spottiswoode · critics 57%, audiences 53% · streaming on Prime Video
  40. 2001 Joe Dirt: acted · directed by Dennie Gordon
  41. 2001 Vegas, City of Dreams: acted · directed by Lorenzo Doumani
  42. 2005 The Dukes of Hazzard: acted · directed by Jay Chandrasekhar
  43. 2008 Strange Wilderness: acted · directed by Fred Wolf · critics 2%, audiences 35% · streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  44. 2012 Mud: acted · directed by Jeff Nichols · critics 97%, audiences 80% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome