# Joe Don Baker
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joe don baker (born February 12, 1936) 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).
== Life and career ==
Baker was born in Groesbeck, Texas, the son of Edna (née McDonald) and Doyle Charles Baker.
JFD702: The Lost World, The Outfit, Train to Busan
Junk Food Dinner returns with three films that span an entire century of cinema!
Up first, director Harry O. Hoyt and stop-motion special effects master Willis O'Brien bring to life the fantastic world of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World in 1925, the first full-length motion picture…
283 - Congo
In honor of the late, great Tim Curry, Your Stupid Minds covers 1995's Congo, also starring Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, and Joe Don Baker.
Charlie Travis (Bruce Campbell) discovers some magic diamonds in Zaire that they can use for satellite space lasers, but he's attacked by what may…
Episode 244 - Congo
Revisiting Congo 1995 to see if this creature feature still holds up or if it belongs lost in the jungle.We are kicking off our Cryptid Chronicles series by taking a look at Congo 1995. Joining Steven and Jason is Trevor Poelman from Belief It Or Not to break down the absurdity, the gorillas, and t…
The Incomparable Mothership 835: Team Whammer
The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as American mythology, filtered through the mind of Barry Levinson. Barbara Hershey shocks a…
835: Team Whammer
The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as American mythology, filtered through the mind of Barry Levinson. Barbara Hershey shocks a…
The Living Daylights (1987) | Timothy Dalton's Gritty James Bond Debut | VHSSB
Chris takes the controls this week with The Living Daylights, the 1987 James Bond adventure that introduced Timothy Dalton as 007 following Roger Moore’s retirement from the role. Directed by Bond veteran John Glen and produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the film had an estimated …
A Pack Of Rabid Dogs Wants To Eat Joe Don Baker | The Halloween Spooktacular
31 days of Halloween season, 31 horror movies and 31 horror movie reviews. This Halloween season we are looking at the black sheep of scary cinema, the Animal attack genre! From The birds to Whalefall, We take you on a terrifying journey through the decades and give you some of the spookiest, scari…
A Joe Don Baker Halloween Double Feature
Welcome to a world of thrills and chills as we continue to eulogize recently deceased new Hollywood figures with the most terrifying dead celebrity of them all: Joe Don Baker! We discuss two horror-adjacent projects he took on in 1977. The Shadow of Chikara and The Pack! One’s a civil war era treas…
“Walking Tall” and the Disturbing Story of Buford Pusser
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In this episode, we talk about the 1973 film Walking Tall. The movie revolves around Buford Pusser. Pusser comes back to his home town to learn it’s been taken over by criminals.
We recently lost Joe Don Baker. Baker plays Buford and it’s based on a true story. Allegedly, the movie…
141: Last of the Independents
Movie Meltdown - Episode 141 Join us this week as we bring you our geek activities and this week's Sofa Theater feature: Charley Varrick. An interesting and under-seen movie directed by Don Siegel that features... a bank robbery, Joe Don Baker, an airplane vs. car chase scene, Joe Don Baker, explos…
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