Joe Don Baker — Actor (23)
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The Killing Time (1987) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Killing Time
director: Rick King actor: Beau Bridges / Kiefer Sutherland …
other title: Tiempo para matar / Tiempo de matar …
After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California town, he assumes the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new 'job'. What he doesn't know is that the recently appointed sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her evil husband—and blame it on the new deputy.
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George Wallace (1997) [TV] IMDb TMDB
George Wallace
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Gary Sinise / Mare Winningham …
The miniseries follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful governor in Alabama's history. It depicts his symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. It details his stance on racial segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents, and also depicts Wallace's rise as a presidential hopeful. This eventually leads to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 presidential election.
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Felony (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Felony
director: David A. Prior actor: Jeffrey Combs / David Warner …
other title: Felony - Die CIA-Verschwörung / Felony – Die CIA-Verschwörung
A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters and gets killed for his efforts. Meanwhile the film commentator gets pursued by the cops, the gangsters, and some crooked FBI agents. All are after the film which he doesn't have.
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
director: Paul Wendkos actor: George Kennedy / James Whitmore …
other title: Le pistole dei magnifici sette / Syv mænd rider igen …
When Mexican revolutionary leader Quintero is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Diaz, it's up to his subordinate, Max, to bust him out. With $600 in hand, he crosses the border into America and hires Chris Adams, a mercenary of considerable skill, who uses the rest of the cash on more hired guns. After the team is rounded out by experts on close-combat fighting, explosives, and knife-throwing, they set off to free Quintero.
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Power (1980) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Power
director: Barry Shear / Virgil W. Vogel actor: Joe Don Baker / Karen Black …
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
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Ring of Steel (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ring of Steel
director: David Frost actor: Robert Chapin / Wil Darwin Adams …
other title: Foso de acero / Lame mortali
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
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Wild Rovers (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wild Rovers
director: Blake Edwards actor: William Holden / Ryan O'Neal …
other title: Uomini selvaggi / Missouri …
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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Criminal Law (1989) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Criminal Law
director: Martin Campbell actor: Gary Oldman / Kevin Bacon …
other title: Legge criminale / Der Frauenmörder …
Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The verdict sets Thiel free. Within 24 hours another grizzly and all-too-familiar murder has taken place with striking similarities to the first crime. Chase inexplicably agrees to act as his defense attorney; but this time it will be to gather evidence that will put away his client for good.
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Checkered Flag or Crash (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Checkered Flag or Crash
director: Alan Gibson actor: Joe Don Baker / Susan Sarandon …
other title: Percorso infernale / Crash …
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran wants the race completed by any means necessary.
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The Commission (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Commission
director: Mark Sobel actor: Martin Landau / Sam Waterston …
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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The Underneath (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Underneath
director: Steven Soderbergh actor: Peter Gallagher / Alison Elliott …
other title: Torbide ossessioni / Die Kehrseite der Medaille …
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.
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Adam at Six A.M. (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Adam at Six A.M.
director: Robert Scheerer actor: Michael Douglas / Lee Purcell …
other title: Adam a las 6 de la madrugada
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
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Framed (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Framed
director: Phil Karlson actor: Joe Don Baker / Conny Van Dyke …
other title: Senza capo d'accusa / Ein Mann nimmt Rache …
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.
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Golden Needles (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Golden Needles
director: Robert Clouse actor: Joe Don Baker / Elizabeth Ashley …
other title: I sette aghi d'oro / Das Geheimnis der 7 goldenen Nadeln …
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.
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The Outfit (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.