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