Acting

Joe Don Baker

Born 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Died 2025-05-07

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