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Tall, broad shouldered character actor with Texan drawl first appeared in support in several Western vehicles both on TV and the cinema in the mid 1960s. Got himself noticed playing Steve McQueen's younger brother in Junior Bonner (1972), and then scored the lead role of Buford Pusser (!) in the unexpected hit Walking Tall (1973), an allegedly true tale about a Southern sheriff confronting corruption & gangsters with a large wooden club and a mean attitude. Followed it up by playing a sadistic hit man called Molly, in Don Siegel's bank heist drama Charley Varrick (1973). Joe Don Baker's next few films were rather forgettable until he landed the role of police detective Earl Eischied in To Kill a Cop (1978)....which led him into reprising the same character in the short lived TV series Eischied (1979). Since then he has proved he is also quite adept at taking on comedy roles, as well as picking up plenty of work playing lawmen, military men, politicians etc. Keep your eye open for him as a nosy police chief in Fletch (1985), a meglomanical general in The Living Daylights (1987), as a redneck father in Mars Attacks! (1996), and as intelligence operative Jack Wade in the 007 films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and GoldenEye (1995).- Actress
Alberta Gary was born on 23 May 1912 in Groesbeck, Texas, USA. She was an actress. She died on 13 June 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Garland Roark was born July 26, 1904 in Groesbeck, Texas the son of James H. and Mona Lee Roark. He married Leola Elisabeth Burke on September 14, 1939. He died February 9, 1985 in Nacogdoches, Texas. He was celebrated as a writer of seafaring adventures and, under the pseudonym George Garland, wrote a variety of western novels as well. Roark held advertising positions with various stores in Texas from 1924 until 1946, when he quit to write full time. The decision proved fortuitous; throughout the 1950s and 1960s Roark maintained a solid reputation for pulp-style adventure stories.
His first novel, Wake of the Red Witch, set the tone for his subsequent work. Set in the South Seas, the story encompassed sunken treasure and the unbridled greed of the men searching for it - and willing to kill if necessary. Critics of this book, and others, were less than enthusiastic about the story lines and the men and women who populated them. But Hollywood saw the potential. The success of Wake of the Red Witch played into the post-War desire for escapist entertainment, and Republic Studios optioned the rights in 1946. Director Edward Ludwig hired screenwriters Harry Brown and Kenneth Garnet to adapt the novel and it was filmed in 1948 starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young and Luthr Adler. Produced on a budget of $1.2 million, it was the most expensive Republic Picture produced that year.
Only two of Mr. Roark's novels have ever been adapted - Fair Wind to Java was produced by Republic in 1953 and starred Fred MacMurray. - Julie Lynn Adams was born on 10 September 1987 in Groesbeck, Texas, USA.