Joe Don Baker
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Acting Credits
Biography
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
Filmography
Mud
2013
as King
Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
as Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
as Buck Duke
Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade
Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis
Panther
1995
as Brimmer
The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle
Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce
Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black
Felony
1994
as Donovan
Complex of Fear
1993
as Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
1991
as Claude Kersek
The Children
1990
as Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
1989
as Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Hunter McCall
The Living Daylights
1987
as Brad Whitaker
Leonard Part 6
1987
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time
1987
as Carl Cunningham
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
as Sheriff Onstad
Getting Even
1986
as King R. Kenderson
Fletch
1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin
Edge of Darkness
1985
as Darius Jedburgh
The Natural
1984
as The Whammer
Final Justice
1984
as Geronimo
Joysticks
1983
as Joseph Rutter
Wacko
1982
as Dick Harbinger
Power
1980
as Tommy Vanda
Eischied
1979
as Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl Eischied
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
as Wishbone Cutter
Speedtrap
1977
as Pete Novick
The Pack
1977
as Jerry
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
as Walkaway Madden
Mitchell
1975
as Mitchell
Framed
1975
as Ron Lewis
Golden Needles
1974
as Dan Mason
Walking Tall
1973
as Buford Pusser
The Outfit
1973
as Jack Cody
Charley Varrick
1973
as Molly
Doc Elliot
1973
as Aaron Hickey
Junior Bonner
1972
as Curly Bonner
That Certain Summer
1972
as Phil Bonner
The Valachi Papers
1972
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Wild Rovers
1971
as Paul Buckman
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
as Danny
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Mongo Nash
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
as Slater
The Mod Squad
1968
Lancer
1968
The Outsider
1968
as Billy Joe Corey
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Fixer
Ironside
1967
The High Chaparral
1967
as Yuma
Judd for the Defense
1967
Felony Squad
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Frank Kearney
The F.B.I.
1965
as Alex Drake
The Big Valley
1965
as Tom Lightfoot
Honey West
1965
as Rocky Hansen
Bonanza
1959
as Luke Harper
Gunsmoke
1955
as Woody Stoner
Gunsmoke
1955
as Tom Butler