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Joe Don Baker

1936 - 2025

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Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 – May 7, 2025) was an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles in the Westerns Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973). Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Baker found success playing both leading and supporting roles, including a mafia hitman in Charley Varrick (1973), a brute force detective in Mitchell (1975), a legendary baseball player in The Natural (1984), a police chief in the Chevy Chase comedy Fletch (1985), and a morally dubious private investigator in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Don Baker is the 2,046th most popular actor (down from 2,011th in 2019), the 3,652nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,289th in 2019) and the 997th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Joe Don Baker ranks 2,046 out of 13,578. Before him are Bella Darvi, Aleksey Batalov, Carla Gravina, Amy Irving, Frank Wolff, and Kenneth Tsang. After him are Carl Switzer, Aamir Khan, Earl Cameron, Geraldine Farrar, Venantino Venantini, and James Tien.

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Among people born in 1936, Joe Don Baker ranks 197. Before him are Antonio María Rouco Varela, Charles Napier, Mala Sinha, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, and Ivan Dias. After him are Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Glenn Murcutt, José Policarpo, John P. Ryan, Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, and Paul Shenar. Among people deceased in 2025, Joe Don Baker ranks 120. Before him are José Carlos, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, John Sykes, Ferenc Mohácsi, Richard Armitage, and Ayla Erduran. After him are Mike Ratledge, Harris Yulin, Muhammad az-Zanati, Marcel Ophüls, Manga, and Clive Revill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 3,652 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738), Amy Irving (1953), Duke Kahanamoku (1890), Jimmie Angel (1899), Mangas Coloradas (1792), and Frank Wolff (1928). After him are Carl Switzer (1927), Priscilla Chan (1985), Gerry Mulligan (1927), Dean Rusk (1909), Katharine Graham (1917), and Archie Shepp (1937).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 997. Before him are Harold Perrineau (1963), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), Nichelle Nichols (1932), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), Amy Irving (1953), and Frank Wolff (1928). After him are Carl Switzer (1927), Geraldine Farrar (1882), Charlie Ruggles (1886), Mary-Louise Parker (1964), Harris Yulin (1937), and Lauren Graham (1967).

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