• Name: Joe Don Baker
  • Date of Birth: February 22, 1936
  • Place of Birth: Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Mini-bio: Joe Don Baker 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 i...( read more)n 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.




Although lampooned on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series: Mitchell and Final Justice, Baker has quality performances in a career spanning four decades.

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.

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.
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Replace this image with an actor photoJoe Don Baker mini-bio: Joe Don Baker 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.

Although lampooned on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series: Mitchell and Final Justice, Baker has quality performances in a career spanning four decades. 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. 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.

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