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