Acting
Joe Don Baker
Acting · Born 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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.
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FilmMud
2013 · King
FilmStrange Wilderness
2008 · Bill Calhoun
FilmThe Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Governor Jim Applewhite
FilmSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
FilmThe Commission
2003 · Rep. Hale Boggs
FilmJoe Dirt
2001 · Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
FilmVegas, City of Dreams
2001 · Dylan Garrett
FilmInside The Living Daylights
2000 · Self
FilmInside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · Buck Duke
FilmPoodle Springs
1998 · P.J. Parker
FilmTomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Wade
FilmGeorge Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
FilmTo Dance with Olivia
1997 · Horace
FilmMars Attacks!
1996 · Glenn Norris
FilmThe Grass Harp
1996 · Sheriff Junius Candle
FilmThe Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
FilmFelony
1996 · Donovan
FilmGoldenEye
1995 · Jack Wade
FilmCongo
1995 · R.B. Travis
FilmPanther
1995 · Brimmer
FilmThe Underneath
1995 · Clay Hinkle
FilmRing of Steel
1994 · Man in Black
FilmReality Bites
1994 · Tom Pierce
FilmComplex of Fear
1993 · Det. Frank Farrel
FilmThe Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Olaf Andersen
FilmCitizen Cohn
1992 · Sen. Joseph McCarthy
FilmCape Fear
1991 · Claude Kersek
FilmThe Children
1990 · Cliffe Wheater
FilmCriminal Law
1989 · Detective Mesel
FilmDefrosting the Fridge
1989 · Hunter McCall
FilmLeonard Part 6
1987 · Snyderburn
FilmThe Killing Time
1987 · Carl Cunningham
FilmThe Living Daylights
1987 · Brad Whitaker
FilmThe Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · Sheriff Onstad
FilmGetting Even
1986 · King R. Kenderson
Edge of Darkness
1985 · Darius Jedburgh
FilmFletch
1985 · Chief Jerry Karlin
Screen Two
1985 · Hunter McCall
FilmFinal Justice
1984 · Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
FilmThe Natural
1984 · The Whammer
FilmJoysticks
1983 · Joseph Rutter
FilmWacko
1982 · Dick Harbinger
Power
1980 · Tommy Vanda
Eischied
1979 · Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978 · Chief Earl Eischied
FilmThe Pack
1977 · Jerry
FilmSpeedtrap
1977 · Pete Novick
FilmThe Shadow of Chikara
1977 · Wishbone Cutter
FilmCheckered Flag or Crash
1977 · Walkaway Madden
FilmMitchell
1975 · Mitchell
FilmFramed
1975 · Ron Lewis
FilmGolden Needles
1974 · Dan Mason
FilmThe Outfit
1973 · Jack Cody
Doc Elliot
1973 · Aaron Hickey
FilmCharley Varrick
1973 · Molly
FilmWalking Tall
1973 · Buford Pusser
FilmThat Certain Summer
1972 · Phil Bonner
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Leonard Collier Cord
FilmJunior Bonner
1972 · Curly Bonner
FilmThe Valachi Papers
1972 · Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
FilmWelcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971 · Danny
FilmMongo's Back in Town
1971 · Mongo Nash
FilmWild Rovers
1971 · Paul Buckman
FilmAdam at Six A.M.
1970 · Harvey Gavin
FilmGuns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Slater
The Mod Squad
1968 · Willie Turner
Lancer
1968 · Day Pardee
The Outsider
1968 · Billy Joe Corey
FilmCool Hand Luke
1967 · Fixer
The High Chaparral
1967 · Yuma
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Merl Varney
Ironside
1967 · Eric Blair
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Frank Kearney
Felony Squad
1966 · Shep Taubs
The F.B.I.
1965 · Alex Drake
Honey West
1965 · Rocky Hansen
The Big Valley
1965 · Tom Lightfoot
Bonanza
1959 · Luke Harper
Gunsmoke
1955 · Woody Stoner