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