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  • Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series
  • Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series review by from Brighton, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars One of the best drama series from the BBC 31 August 2005
    ... beautiful Joanne Whalley into the limelight), and joined by the ever watchable Joe Don Baker. I hadn't watched this since it first aired in the eighties and I was please...   Read customer review
  • Junior Bonner
  • Junior Bonner review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Bonner Boys bump Broncos and Bulls 19 January 2009
    ...Elvira (Ida Lupino) lives in town in modest comfort, whilst his brother Curley (Joe Don Baker) and his family are doing well selling mobile homes. The film shows how the ...   Read customer review
  • Fletch
  • Fletch review by BigMeUp from
    Rated - 3.0 stars Silly - but in a nice, inoffensive way 30 May 2011
    ...e same percussionist and keyboard player??) but it was nice to see the likes of Joe Don Baker again. And Geena Davies - how lovely to see her with a normal-looking jawline -...   Read customer review

Joe Don Baker - filmography


  • The Grass Harp (1998)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Sissy Spacek,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Charles Matthau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Edward Furlong stars in this adaptation of a Truman Capote novella. Following the death of his mother, Collin Fenwick (Furlong) goes to live with his two maiden aunts. He prefers the sweet-natured Dolly (Piper Laurie) to the self-centred Vera (Sissy Spacek), and sides with the former when she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 154 members
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  • Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When Martians arrive on planet Earth, American President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is persuaded to extend the hand of friendship. One of the President's advisers, Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan), has been studying the aliens, and is keen to make peaceful contact. However, the Martians gleefully ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 805 members
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  • Mars Attacks! on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 12,961 members
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  • Congo on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Laura Linney,  Ernie Hudson
    Director: Frank Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Amy the gorilla is being returned to the jungle after being part of a university experiment. Following her home is a group including a professor, an electronics expert, a guide and an explorer, amongst others. They are following her because they know that the animal will lead them to the lost city ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,395 members
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  • GoldenEye - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Sean Bean,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The effortlessly suave and sophisticated Pierce Brosnan makes his acclaimed debut as Agent 007 in this rip-roaring espionage thriller featuring the most eye-popping opening sequence yet. When an MI6 agent (Sean Bean) turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 18 members
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  • GoldenEye on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Sean Bean,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26,709 members
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  • Panther (1995)
    Starring: Ralph Ahn,  Joe Don Baker,  Angela Bassett
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 14 members
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  • Ring Of Steel on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Robert Chapin,  Joe Don Baker,  Darlene Vogel
    Director: David Frost
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After killing a man in a fencing competition, Alex Freyer finds that he is being watched by a mysterious man who runs an underground sword-fighting competition for the benefit of big-betting hoods. The fights go to the death, so there are no stakes higher than at this club.
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 39 members
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  • The Underneath on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Elisabeth,  Elisabeth Shue
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Soderbergh directs this thriller starring Peter Gallagher as Michael Chambers, a charming drifter who returns home after leaving years earlier under a cloud of gambling debts and indiscretions. Following his homecoming, he becomes embroiled in a desperate and very dangerous deal in an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 109 members
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  • Complex Of Fear on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Chelsea Field,  Hart Bochner
    Director: Brian Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Police officer Ray Dolan and his wife Michelle are residents in a luxury apartment block in the close-knit Wood Side community. They lead an ordinary married life, and are happy to live among such good neighbours. But everything changes when a rapist starts striking in the area and Ray is assigned ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 54 members
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  • Reality Bites on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Winona Ryder,  Joe Don Baker,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This film was one of the more mainstream offerings in the array of films that emphasized the overly hyped Generation X phenomenon, a list that ranges from Slacker to Singles and includes a host of other films. Winona Ryder stars as Lelaina, a recent college graduate. Out on her own and independent ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,710 members
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  • The Distinguished Gentleman on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Victoria Rowell,  Joe Don Baker,  Lane Smith
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy stars as small-time con man Thomas Jefferson, who decides that politics is where the big money is. Running for senator in place of a recently-deceased candidate with the same name, Jefferson heads for Washington with a few of his con-artist pals as staff, and soon stirs up Congress ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 746 members
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  • Cape Fear on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Illeana Dou,  Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 18,475 members
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  • Cape Fear - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of the classic 1961 thriller. Tattooed psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has spent his 14-year prison term fermenting his bitterness towards attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), whom he blames for his incarceration. Upon his release Cady sets out to destroy the already ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 249 members
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  • The Living Daylights - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Timothy Dalton,  Maryam d'Abo,  Jeroen Krabbe
    Director: John Glen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Timothy Dalton plays James Bond for the first time, leaving behind the high camp of the Roger Moore years for a relatively straight reading of the famous secret agent. The action this time sees Bond running around various exotic spots (Gibraltar, Afghanistan) in pursuit of a couple of seedy dealers ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 2 members
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  • The Living Daylights on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Timothy Dalton,  Maryam d'Abo,  Jeroen Krabbe
    Director: John Glen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Timothy Dalton plays James Bond for the first time, leaving behind the high camp of the Roger Moore years for a relatively straight reading of the famous secret agent. The action this time sees Bond running around various exotic spots (Gibraltar, Afghanistan) in pursuit of a couple of seedy dealers ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12,582 members
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  • Fletch on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Richard Libertini,  Chevy Chase
    Director: Michael Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Fletch (Chevy Chase), a newspaper reporter with a talent for disguise, is working undercover to catch some drug traffickers when he meets wealthy businessman Stanwyk (Tim Matheson). Claiming to be suffering from terminal cancer, Stanwyk asks Fletch to engineer a break-in to his mansion and bump him ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,216 members
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  • Final Justice on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Rossano Brazzi
    Director: Greydon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Violent cop movie in which the sheriff of a small Texan town locks horns with two Italian mobsters. When his deputy and a co-worker are murdered by two Italian brothers, local sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) sets out on their trail, leading him to Malta. After returning to the ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 44 members
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  • Wacko on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Jeff Altman,  Stella Stevens
    Director: Greydon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective Dick Harbinger (Jon Don Baker) has one hell of a criminal in his sights, the pumpkin headed Lawnmower Killer, in this comedy spoof of various late 70s movies. As Dick attempts to track down the killer he is eventually lead back to the High School Pumpkin Prom where the murderer first ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 150 members
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  • Walking Tall (1973)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Elizabeth Hartman,  Gene Evans
    Director: Phil Karlson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 32 members
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  • Charley Varrick on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Benson Fong,  Norman Fell,  Joe Don Baker
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 894 members
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  • The Outfit (1973)
    Starring: Robert Duvall,  Joe Don Baker,  Karen Black
    Director: John Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death in this drama based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake. Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) 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. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 8 members
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  • Junior Bonner on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Barbara Leigh,  Joe Don Baker,  Ida Lupino
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to come ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 399 members
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Joe Don Baker facts

5 most recent films

Strange Wilderness - 2.5 stars
The Grass Harp - 2.5 stars
Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Mars Attacks! - 3.0 stars
Congo - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Cape Fear - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cape Fear - 3.5 stars
Charley Varrick - 3.5 stars
GoldenEye - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Final Justice - 1.5 stars
Ring Of Steel - 2.0 stars
Citizen Cohn - 2.0 stars
Walking Tall - 3.0 stars
The Outfit - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Pierce Brosnan - 5 times - show films
Desmond Llewelyn - 4 times - show films
Annette Bening - 3 times - show films
Lukas Haas - 3 times - show films
Glenn Close - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Martin Campbell - 7 times - show films
John Glen - 4 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 4 times - show films
Phil Karlson - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films