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Acting

Joe Don Baker

Career: Active from 1969 to 2003, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 33
top three billing

Average score: 54/100

Highest rated: The Outfit
78/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 59 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joe Don Baker Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Uncanny
1.7, average 2.5
Absurdist Humor
1.2, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Gritty Realism 3
Melancholic Tone 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Character Study 3
70s Crime Thriller 2
70s Crime Drama 2
Police Procedural 2
Law Enforcement 2
80s Nostalgia 2
Fast-Paced 2
Nostalgic 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

80

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 80

Mud

80

as King

2000s

5 titles · average score 34

Strange Wilderness

26

as Bill Calhoun

The Dukes of Hazzard

37

as Governor Jim Applewhite

The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

Joe Dirt

37

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Dylan Garrett

1990s

22 titles · average score 57

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

60

TV show · as Buck Duke

Tomorrow Never Dies

58

as Wade

George Wallace

69

TV show · as Big Jim Folsom

George Wallace

68

as Big Jim Folsom

The Grass Harp

61

as Sheriff Junius Candle

Panther

47

as Brimmer

GoldenEye

73

as Jack Wade

Congo

36

as R.B. Travis

Complex of Fear

46

as Det. Frank Farrel

Citizen Cohn

65

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

The Distinguished Gentleman

43

as Olaf Andersen

Cape Fear

74

as Claude Kersek

1980s

15 titles · average score 49

Criminal Law

38

as Detective Mesel

The Living Daylights

66

as Brad Whitaker

Leonard Part 6

15

as Snyderburn

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

59

as Sheriff Onstad

The Killing Time

45

as Carl Cunningham

Getting Even

50

as King R. Kenderson

Edge of Darkness

54

TV show · as Darius Jedburgh

Fletch

72

as Chief Jerry Karlin

Final Justice

21

as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

Joysticks

39

as Joseph Rutter

Wacko

45

as Dick Harbinger

Power

TV show · as Tommy Vanda

1970s

22 titles · average score 58

Eischied

TV show · as Earl Eischied

To Kill a Cop

TV show · as Chief Earl Eischied

The Pack

56

as Jerry

Checkered Flag or Crash

46

as Walkaway Madden

The Shadow of Chikara

37

as Wishbone Cutter

Mitchell

30

as Mitchell

Framed

65

as Ron Lewis

Charley Varrick

70

as Molly

Walking Tall

64

as Buford Pusser

The Outfit

78

as Jack Cody

That Certain Summer

71

as Phil Bonner

Adam at Six A.M.

48

as Harvey Gavin

1960s

13 titles · average score 66

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

52

as Slater

The Mod Squad

43

TV show · as Willie Turner

Lancer

63

TV show · as Day Pardee / Santee

Ironside

45

TV show · as Eric Blair

The High Chaparral

71

TV show · as Yuma

Cool Hand Luke

89

as Fixer

Judd, for the Defense

76

TV show · as Merl Varney

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Frank Kearney

Felony Squad

69

TV show · as Shep Taubs

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Tom Lightfoot

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Alex Drake

Honey West

73

TV show · as Rocky Hansen

1950s

2 titles · average score 74

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Luke Harper

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Woody Stoner / Tom Butler