Joe Don Baker. Damn.
THR. He was in a lot of good stuff: “Charley Varrick”, “Golden Needles”, “The F.B.I.”, “Lancer”…
He was also in a lot of crap: “Leonard Part 6”, “Final Justice”, and, of course…
Joan O’Brien, actress. Other credits include “Bus Stop” (the series), “Rawhide”, “The Alamo” (the good one, with John Wayne), and “Perry Mason”.
Eischied was also a really good gritty cop drama.
Those ModCinema people have a DVD of “Eischied” available. I’m thinking about it…
I saw that Joe Don Baker had passed, and I immediately thought of the many things that I saw him in. While he usually played the same character type, he was always believable.
I have no idea what he was like away from the set, but he seemed to be the kind of person that you would enjoy spending time with, if only for his stories, which must have been entertaining, and probably more than a little blue.
RIP to one more memory of my youth.