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