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| Birth Name(s) : Joe Don Baker |
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Perhaps it is his work in director Don Siegel's ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "Madigan", "Dirty Harry") 1973 minor-masterpiece "Charley Varrick", that remains Baker's most critical success. Baker was praised for his courageous and offbeat portrait of the sadistic hitman Molly. The film starred Walter Matthau as the eponymous Charley Varrick, and won a British Academy Award.
Although lampooned on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series: Mitchell and Final Justice, Baker has performances in a career spanning four decades. For his ground-breaking work in "Final Justice", Joe Don Baker has garnered national attention in Malta, and is now considered a minor hero amongst the populace. His aggressive interrogation methods are extensively studied and adopted by Maltese law enforcement personnel, to great effect.
In 1980 Baker became the first actor to receive $1,000,000 to star in a television series--the short lived police drama Eischeid where he played Chief Earl Eischeid. In 1985 he portrayed the corrupt key villain Chief Jerry Karlin in the Chevy Chase hit Fletch.
In the UK, Baker is probably best known as CIA agent Darius Jedburgh from the drama serial Edge of Darkness.
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.
Also, strangely enough Baker was said to have actually tried out for the role of James Bond once for Live and Let Die, but decided to work on other roles. |
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