Barbara Tasker

Acting

Barbara Tasker

Barbara Tasker is an American actress primarily active in film and television projects spanning from the mid-1976 to the late-1999s, with several notable roles set in the American South.

Acting credits

Hard Target poster
6.5

When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.

Hard Target

1993

Crazy in Alabama poster
6.0

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.

Crazy in Alabama

1999

Rag and Bone poster
4.0

The life of a priest seconded to a New Orleans police department begins to fall apart when he is wrongly implicated in the shooting of a suspect. However, it comes to light that the precinct is haunted by the spirit of a deceased policeman, who helps the beleaguered cleric to solve the case and clear his name.

Rag and Bone

1998

J.D.'s Revenge poster
5.9

After notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is murdered in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who had him killed.

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou poster
9.0

Gerald McRaney stars as Jake Lassiter, a colorful ex-football player turned top defense attorney who is hired to defend Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon charged with malpractice in the mysterious death of a wealthy patient, Phillip Corrigan.

Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou

1995

Cane River poster
6.5

A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area.

Cane River

1982