Basic Information About Joe Don Baker
| Category | Celebrities › Actors |
|---|---|
| Professions | Actor |
| Net worth | $3,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1936-02-12 (88 years old) |
| Place of birth | Groesbeck |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | 25 December - Maria Dolores Rivero-Torres ( 1969 - ?) (divorced) |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.89 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Joe Don Baker win?
 Oscar |
 Golden Globe |
 Golder Raspberry |
 BAFTA |
 Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Joe Don Baker awards
| Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Altman Award - | Winner | Mud | 2014 |
Joe Don Baker roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Cool Hand Luke | Fixer (uncredited) |
| Mars Attacks! | Richie's Dad |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | Wade |
| Congo | R.B. Travis |
| Cape Fear | Claude Kersek |
| Joe Dirt | Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited) |
| Mud | King |
| GoldenEye | Jack Wade |
| The Natural | The Whammer |
| Reality Bites | Tom Pierce |
| The Living Daylights | Brad Whitaker |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Governor Jim Applewhite |
| Fletch | Chief Karlin |
| Strange Wilderness | Bill Calhoun |
| Walking Tall | Buford Pusser |
| Mission: Impossible | Frank Kearney 1 episode, 1971 |
| In the Heat of the Night | Acting Chief Tom Dugan / ... 4 episodes, 1989 |
| The High Chaparral | Yuma 1 episode, 1971 |
| The Mod Squad | Willie Turner 1 episode, 1969 |
| Honey West | Rocky Hansen 1 episode, 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Alex Drake 1 episode, 1970 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Leonard Collier Cord 1 episode, 1973 |
| Screen Two | Hunter McCall 1 episode, 1989 |
Joe Don Baker's Movie/Shows Salary
| Movie / Series | Salary |
|---|---|
| Wacko (1982) | $150,000 |
Joe Don Baker's Quotes
- [on working with Sam Peckinpah in Junior Bonner (1972)] I didn't care for Peckinpah at all. He was one of those little guys who tries to bully big guys and he almost got his ass whipped for trying to do it to me. Every time I was going to throttle Peckinpah, Steve McQueen would come over and calm me down like a brother would.
Interesting Facts about Joe Don Baker
- While Carroll O'Connor was recovering from bypass surgery, Baker appeared in O'Connor's place on In the Heat of the Night (1988) as Tom Dugan.
- Graduated from North Texas State (now known as the University of North Texas).
- Is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
- Studied at the Actors Studio in New York City following a stint in the army.
- Along with Charles Gray, who played both Dikko Henderson in You Only Live Twice (1967) and 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld' in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Baker is one of only two actors to play both a major Bond nemesis, Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987), and a significant Bond ally, Jack Wade in GoldenEye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
- Said in an interview that if he ever met the writers of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (1988) he would "kick [their] asses" for their grilling of Mitchell (1975). This did not stop them from sending up another one of Baker's films, Final Justice (1985), in which they ridicule him even more. Baker later said the threat was a joke.
- He appeared in three films with Pierce Brosnan in as many years: GoldenEye (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
- Is an admirer of actors Robert Mitchum and Spencer Tracy.
- The January 28, 1976, issue of Variety, in the Film Production section, lists the movie "Fifty-Two Pickup" which began filming Dec. 21, 1975 in Israel, director Menahem Golan, starring Joe Don Baker, Trish Van Devere, Bruce Davison, and John Marley through Golan-Globus Productions. Golan-Globus delayed it until 1986 with a different cast and crew.
