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Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American film actor perhaps best known for his role as sheriff "Buford Pusser" in the American film classic Walking Tall. Baker got his start in acting as an uncredited character in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, but his real beginnings came when he scored the role of Steve McQueen's younger brother in the film Junior Bonner. He later starred as the main character in the 1973 film Walking Tall, a film that was remade in 2004 starring The Rock. Baker was offered a cameo in the remake and declined the offer. Before you can upload images you will need to register an account Only use this if you hold the copyright on the image. ...
February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Groesbeck is a city located in Limestone County, Texas. ...
February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A young Buford Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 - August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (in West Tennessee) from 1964 to 1970. ...
Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. ...
Lauren steiger, born in 1992 at Royal Womens hospital started acting and modelling at the age of 2 and is now currently 15 working in Milan on the catwalks. ...
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. ...
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated American movie actor, nicknamed The King of Cool.[1] He was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to a popular anti-hero persona. ...
Junior Bonner is a male melodrama and contemporary western movie, focusing on the relationships between two brothers and their father. ...
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Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. ...
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Although lampooned on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series: Mitchell and Final Justice, Baker has performances in a career spanning four decades. Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ...
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Final Justice was a 1984 film starring Joe Don Baker (most famous from his role in Walking Tall) and directed by B-movie veteran Greydon Clark. ...
Baker appeared on television in 1980 in the short lived police drama series Eischeid where he played Chief Earl Eischeid. In 1985 he portrayed the corrupt key villain Chief Jerry Karlin in the Chevy Chase hit Fletch. Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ...
Fletch is the nickname of the main character, Irwin Maurice Fletcher, in a series of Mystery/Comedy novels written by Gregory Mcdonald. ...
While actor Carroll O'Connor was undergoing heart bypass surgery, Baker took his place on the television series In the Heat of the Night. Baker appeared as Captain Tom Duggan, a retired police captain who filled in while O'Connor's character was away at a police convention. John Carroll OConnor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor, most famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1979) and Archie Bunkers Place (1979-1983). ...
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern U.S. African-American police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in the...
James Bond series In 1987, Baker got the role of the villain Brad Whitaker in the Bond film The Living Daylights, starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond. In 1995 and 1997 Baker returned to the series, this time playing a different character, the slovenly and dim-witted CIA agent Jack Wade, in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan as Bond. He is one of nine actors to have played two separate roles in the official James Bond cinema series, preceded by Charles Gray, Marc Lawrence, Walter Gotell, Jeremy Bulloch, Maud Adams, Burt Kwouk, Anthony Dawson, Tsai Chin and Robert Brown(though Brown is disputed, as his M and Admiral Hargreaves were never officially declared two separate people.) // May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers. ...
Brad Whitaker is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. ...
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Timothy Peter Dalton (born March 21, 1946[1]) is a Welsh born English actor of stage and screen, best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989) and in his roles in Shakespearean related films and plays. ...
The year 1995 in film involved some significant events. ...
The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ...
Jack Wade is a fictional character in Pierce Brosnans first two James Bond films. ...
GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film. ...
Tomorrow Never Dies is the 18th film in the James Bond series and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as MI6 agent James Bond. ...
Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE [1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. ...
Charles Gray (August 29, 1928 - March 7, 2000) was an English actor, born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Hampshire, (now Bournemouth, Dorset) Charles Gray as Ernst Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever Donald Gray attended Bournemouth School along side Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, during...
Marc Lawrence (February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. ...
Walter Gotell (March 15, 1924 - May 5, 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Bond films. ...
Bulloch as Boba Fett (right) in The Empire Strikes Back. ...
Maud Adams (born in Luleå, Sweden February 12, 1945, as Maud Solveig Christina Wikström), is an actress and supermodel, most known for her roles in two James Bond movies. ...
Burt Kwouk (Chinese: éƒå¼¼; pinyin: GuÅ Bì) (born July 18, 1930), is an actor who was born in Manchester, England because my mother happened to be there but was raised in Shanghai between the ages of ten months and seventeen years. ...
Anthony Dawson (October 18, 1916 – January 8, 1992), born in Edinburgh, was a Scottish-born actor. ...
Tsai Chin as Ling in You Only Live Twice in 1967. ...
Robert Brown as M in Licence to Kill Robert Brown (July 23, 1921 - November 11, 2003) was a British actor best known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond movies, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981. ...
The character of Wade is similar to that of CIA agent Darius Jedburgh, played by Baker in the critically acclaimed 1985 BBC Television serial Edge of Darkness. He was nominated for "Best Actor" by the British Academy Television Awards. This serial was directed by Martin Campbell, who also cast Baker as Wade in GoldenEye. Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ...
Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ...
The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards, are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. ...
Martin Campbell (born October 24, 1940, Hastings) is a New Zealand film and television director. ...
GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film. ...
Also, strangely enough Baker was said to have actually tried out for the role of James Bond once for Live and Let Die, but decided to work on other roles.
Other notable films Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) is the second sequel to the seminal western The Magnificent Seven ( itself based on Kurosawas Seven Samurai). ...
Movie poster for Charlie Varrick Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson and Joe Don Baker. ...
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The Outfit is a squad-based action game built for Microsofts Xbox 360, set within war ravaged Europe during World War II. The game combines squad-based combat and easy to use strategic gameplay elements with cinematic interludes. ...
This article is about the 1975 film. ...
// January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ...
Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ...
The term framing can have several possible meanings: framing (telecommunication), where it relates to synchronization framing (economics), where it relates to rational choice theory framing (World Wide Web), where it relates to the use of multiple panes within a web page framing (communication theory) and sociology, where it relates to...
// January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ...
The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. ...
// Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. ...
Fletch is a 1985 comedy film about a wisecracking investigative newspaper reporter, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase, at the height of his popularity), who writes under the name of Jane Doe. ...
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Cape Fear is a 1991 film which is a remake of a 1962 film of the same name. ...
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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) is a comedy starring Eddie Murphy. ...
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Reality Bites is a 1994 film written by Helen Childress and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Stiller. ...
// November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ...
The year 1995 in film involved some significant events. ...
Michael Crichton, pronounced [1], (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, and television producer. ...
GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film. ...
Panther is a 1995 film dramatizing the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. ...
Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
Underneath is a 1995 film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Peter Gallagher, based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy. ...
Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
Mars Attacks! is a comedy and science fiction film by Tim Burton based on the popular card series Mars Attacks. ...
The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. ...
Joe Dirt is a 2001 comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan and Kid Rock. ...
For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
The Commission may refer to: The Commission, the governing body of the Mafia in the United States. ...
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ...
The Dukes of Hazzard is a film based on the American television series, The Dukes of Hazzard. ...
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