MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality American
Birth February 12, 1936 (Groesbeck, Texas, United States)
BIOGRAPHY
With an imposing and virile physique, Joe Don Baker appeared mainly on television in the 1960s, in western series like The Great Valley , Bonanza and Gunsmoke . The actor nevertheless made a few appearances on the big screen in The Colts of the Seven Mercenaries (1969), Two Men in the West (1971) and especially The Last Brawler by Sam Peckinpah , in which he played Steve McQueen ‘s little brother .
It was in 1973 that things accelerated, with the public success of Savage Justice (1973), where he played the main role of a sheriff who restores order using a club in his hand. He then played a sadistic hitman in Kill Charley Varrick! by Don Siegel , opposite Robert Duvall in the crime thriller Failure to Organize and leads the adventure film “Golden Needles”.
If his following films are less memorable, Joe Don Baker obtains the main role of the detective series “Eischied” at the end of the 1980s. During this decade, we can see him as a baseball player alongside Robert Redford in The Best , as a corrupt police chief in Fletch or as an arms dealer in James Bond Killing is Not Playing with Timothy Dalton . In 1990, Joe Don Baker obtained a memorable role in Martin Scorsese ‘s
violent Nerves , that of an ex-police officer with brutal methods converted into a private detective. Hired by Nick Nolte ‘s character , he is killed by a terrifying Robert De Niro as a criminal seeking by all means to take revenge on the lawyer who ensured that he served a long prison sentence. In 1995 and 1997, he played another character in two James Bond films ( GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies ), CIA agent Jack Wade. Much less present on screens from the end of the 1990s, we can still see him as a governor in the comedy Sheriff, Scare Me (2005) or even as the menacing head of a mafia family in Mud (2013). ) directed by Jeff Nichols and worn by the very fashionable Matthew McConaughey .
