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Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Total Box Office:
 $135.3M
Highest Rated:
100% Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Lowest Rated:
0% Strange Wilderness (2008)
Birthday:
Feb 22
Birthplace:
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Bio:
Veteran character actor Joe Don Baker has been playing rugged good ol' boys since his uncredited role in Cool Hand Luke in 1967. Born in Texas, his Southern drawl and ample proportions made him suitable to play countless numbers of simple-minded sheriffs, cops, and detectives in everything from…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

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MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
98% Mud
  • King
$21.6M 2013
0% Strange Wilderness
  • Bill Calhoun
$6.5M 2008
The Pack
  • Jerry
-- 2007
13% The Dukes of Hazzard
  • Governor Jim Applewhite
$80.2M 2005
Vegas: City of Dreams
  • Dylan Gerrett
-- 2001
11% Joe Dirt
  • Actor
$27.0M 2001
Poodle Springs
  • P. J. Parker
-- 1998
57% Tomorrow Never Dies
  • Wade
-- 1997
Siege at Ruby Ridge
  • Actor
-- 1996
51% Mars Attacks!
  • Glenn Norris
-- 1996
73% Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
  • Actor
-- 1996
59% Outbreak
  • Actor
-- 1995
50% The Grass Harp
  • Sheriff
-- 1995
21% Congo
  • R.B. Travis
-- 1995
82% GoldenEye
  • Jack Wade
-- 1995
Felony
  • Actor
-- 1995
57% The Underneath
  • Clay Hinkle
-- 1995
27% Panther
  • Brimmer
-- 1995
Ring of Steel
  • Actor
-- 1994
67% Reality Bites
  • Tom Pierce
-- 1994
Complex of Fear
  • Det. Frank Farrel
-- 1993
Citizen Cohn
  • Senator Joseph McCarthy
-- 1992
13% The Distinguished Gentleman
  • Olaf Anderson
-- 1992
76% Cape Fear
  • Claude Kersek
-- 1991
Children, The
  • Cliffe Wheater
-- 1991
33% Criminal Law
  • Detective Mesel
-- 1989
The Killing Time
  • Sheriff Carl Cunningham
-- 1987
Leonard Part 6
  • Snyderburn
-- 1987
75% The Living Daylights
  • Brad Whitaker
-- 1987
Abduction
  • Sheriff Onstad
-- 1987
9% Leonard Pt. 6
  • Actor
-- 1987
Getting Even (Hostage: Dallas)
  • King Kenderson
-- 1986
75% Fletch
  • Chief Karlin
-- 1985
82% The Natural
  • The Whammer
-- 1984
Final Justice
  • Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
-- 1984
Power
  • Actor
-- 1984
Joysticks (Video Madness)
  • Mr. Ruttler
-- 1983
Wacko (Crazy Doctor in Love)
  • Dick Harbinger
-- 1981
Checkered Flag or Crash
  • Actor
-- 1978
Speed Trap
  • Actor
-- 1978
Speedtrap
  • Pete Novick
-- 1978
The Pack
  • Actor
-- 1977
Curse of Demon Mountain
  • Wishbone Cutter
-- 1977
Mitchell
  • Mitchell
-- 1975
Framed
  • Ron Lewis
-- 1975
Golden Needles
  • Dan
-- 1974
86% Charley Varrick
  • Molly
-- 1973
75% Walking Tall
  • Buford Pusser
-- 1973
The Outfit
  • Cody
-- 1973
88% Junior Bonner
  • Curly Bonner
-- 1972
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
  • Danny
-- 1972
Wild Rovers
  • Paul Buckman
-- 1971
Adam at Six A.M.
  • Harvey Gavin
-- 1970
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
  • Slater
-- 1969
100% Cool Hand Luke
  • Fixer
-- 1967

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    1. Fixer: [just after Luke ate fifty eggs] No man can eat fifty eggs.
    From Cool Hand Luke. Submitted by Dermit Z (9 months ago)

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