Joe Don Baker
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Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 - May 7, 2025) was an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, James Bond villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, and CIA agent Jack Wade in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
Known for
Credits
Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Glenn Norris
Cape Fear (1991)
as Claude Kersek
GoldenEye (1995)
as Jack Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
as Wade
Mud (2013)
as King
The Living Daylights (1987)
as Brad Whitaker
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
as Fixer
The Natural (1984)
as The Whammer
Joe Dirt (2001)
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo (1995)
as R.B. Travis
Reality Bites (1994)
as Tom Pierce
Walking Tall (1973)
as Buford Pusser
Fletch (1985)
as Chief Jerry Karlin
Criminal Law (1989)
as Detective Mesel
The Pack (1977)
as Jerry
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
as Olaf Andersen
Charley Varrick (1973)
as Molly
Strange Wilderness (2008)
as Bill Calhoun
Wild Rovers (1971)
as Paul Buckman
The Outfit (1973)
as Jack Cody
Panther (1995)
as Brimmer
The Grass Harp (1996)
as Sheriff Junius Candle
Joysticks (1983)
as Joseph Rutter
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
as Slater
George Wallace (1997)
as Big Jim Folsom
The Children (1990)
as Cliffe Wheater
The Valachi Papers (1972)
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Poodle Springs (1998)
as P.J. Parker
The Underneath (1995)
as Clay Hinkle
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
as Snyderburn
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
as Self
Junior Bonner (1972)
as Curly Bonner
Citizen Cohn (1992)
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Final Justice (1984)
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
Wacko (1982)
as Dick Harbinger
Felony (1996)
as Donovan
Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
as Harvey Gavin
To Kill a Cop (1978)
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
Speedtrap (1977)
as Pete Novick
Getting Even (1986)
as King R. Kenderson
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
as Gerry Spence
Ring of Steel (1994)
as Man in Black
Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
as Walkaway Madden
Golden Needles (1974)
as Dan Mason
The Killing Time (1987)
as Carl Cunningham
That Certain Summer (1972)
as Phil Bonner
Complex of Fear (1993)
as Det. Frank Farrel
Mitchell (1975)
as Mitchell
Framed (1975)
as Ron Lewis
The Abduction of Kari Swenson (1987)
as Sheriff Onstad
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
as Mongo Nash
Vegas, City of Dreams (2001)
as Dylan Garrett
The Commission (2003)
as Rep. Hale Boggs
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971)
as Danny
Inside The Living Daylights (2000)
as Self
To Dance with Olivia (1997)
as Horace
The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
as Wishbone Cutter
Defrosting the Fridge (1989)
as Hunter McCall
Inside 'The Living Daylights' (2000)
as Self