Joe Don Baker
Actor
Born February 12, 1936 in 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.
Filmography
Mud
King
Strange Wilderness
Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
The Commission
Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Buck Duke
Poodle Springs
P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
Horace
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
Felony
Donovan
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
Congo
R.B. Travis
Panther
Brimmer
The Underneath
Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel
Man in Black
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear
Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
The Children
Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
Hunter McCall
Leonard Part 6
Snyderburn
The Killing Time
Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
Brad Whitaker
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Sheriff Onstad
Getting Even
King R. Kenderson
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
Screen Two
Hunter McCall
Final Justice
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
The Natural
The Whammer
Joysticks
Joseph Rutter
Wacko
Dick Harbinger
Power
Tommy Vanda
Eischied
Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl M. Eischied
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl Eischied
The Pack
Jerry
Speedtrap
Pete Novick
The Shadow of Chikara
Wishbone Cutter
Checkered Flag or Crash
Walkaway Madden
Mitchell
Mitchell
Framed
Ron Lewis
Golden Needles
Dan Mason
The Outfit
Jack Cody
Doc Elliot
Aaron Hickey
Charley Varrick
Molly
Walking Tall
Buford Pusser
That Certain Summer
Phil Bonner
Junior Bonner
Curly Bonner
The Valachi Papers
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Danny
Mongo's Back in Town
Mongo Nash
Wild Rovers
Paul Buckman
Adam at Six A.M.
Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Slater
The Mod Squad
Lancer
The Outsider
Billy Joe Corey
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
The High Chaparral
Yuma
Judd, for the Defense
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney
Felony Squad
The F.B.I.
Alex Drake
Honey West
Rocky Hansen
The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot
Bonanza
Luke Harper
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner