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