Movies starring Joe Don Baker

Biography: 
Tall, broad shouldered character actor with Texan drawl first appeared in support in several Western vehicles both on TV and the cinema in the mid 1960s. Got himself noticed playing Steve McQueen's younger brother in "The Junior Bonner (1972)", and then scored the lead role of Buford Pusser (!) in the unexpected hit "Walking Tall (1973)", an allegedly true tale about a Southern sheriff confronting ...  show all 

Cape Fear (1991)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Nick Nolte | Jessica Lange | Juliette Lewis | Joe Don Baker | Robert Mitchum | Gregory Peck | Martin Balsam | Illeana Douglas | Fred Dalton Thompson | Zully Montero | Craig Henne | Forest Burton | Edgar Allan Poe IV | Rod Ball
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Jonathan Pryce | Michelle Yeoh | Teri Hatcher | Ricky Acker | Götz Otto | Joe Don Baker | Vincent Schiavelli | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Colin Salmon | Geoffrey Palmer | Julian Fellowes | Terence Rigby
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.

Reality Bites (1994)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Winona Ryder | Ethan Hawke | Janeane Garofalo | Steve Zahn | Ben Stiller | Swoosie Kurtz | Harry O'Reilly | Susan Norfleet | Joe Don Baker | Renée Zellweger | James Rothenberg | John Mahoney | Eric Morgan Stuart | Barry Del Sherman | Chelsea Lagos
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In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of posteducation life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an AIDS test, while Sammy has problems grappling with his sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what she values–the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical musings of Troy.

007 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Jonathan Pryce | Michelle Yeoh | Teri Hatcher | Ricky Acker | Götz Otto | Joe Don Baker | Vincent Schiavelli | Judi Dench | Desmond Llewelyn | Samantha Bond | Colin Salmon | Geoffrey Palmer | Julian Fellowes | Terence Rigby
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.

The Living Daylights (1987)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Timothy Dalton | Maryam d'Abo | Jeroen Krabbé | Joe Don Baker | John Rhys-Davies | Art Malik | Andreas Wisniewski | Thomas Wheatley | Desmond Llewelyn | Robert Brown | Geoffrey Keen | Walter Gotell | Caroline Bliss | John Terry | Virginia Hey
Directors: John Glen
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After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov (’Jeroen Krabbe’(qv)) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara (’Maryam d’Abo’(qv)), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.