Joe Don Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 12, 1936
- Died
- May 7, 2025
- Birthplace
- 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 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
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
Mars Attacks! 1996
as Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp 1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge 1996
as Gerry Spence
Felony 1996
as Donovan
GoldenEye 1995
as Jack Wade
Congo 1995
as R.B. Travis
Panther 1995
as Brimmer
The Underneath 1995
as Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel 1994
as Man in Black
Reality Bites 1994
as Tom Pierce
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
Leonard Part 6 1987
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time 1987
as Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights 1987
as Brad Whitaker
The Abduction of Kari Swenson 1987
as Sheriff Onstad
Getting Even 1986
as King R. Kenderson
Fletch 1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin
Final Justice 1984
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
The Natural 1984
as The Whammer
Joysticks 1983
as Joseph Rutter
Wacko 1982
as Dick Harbinger
To Kill a Cop 1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
The Pack 1977
as Jerry
Speedtrap 1977
as Pete Novick
The Shadow of Chikara 1977
as Wishbone Cutter
Checkered Flag or Crash 1977
as Walkaway Madden
Mitchell 1975
as Mitchell
Framed 1975
as Ron Lewis
Golden Needles 1974
as Dan Mason
The Outfit 1973
as Jack Cody
Charley Varrick 1973
as Molly
Walking Tall 1973
as Buford Pusser
That Certain Summer 1972
as Phil Bonner
Junior Bonner 1972
as Curly Bonner
The Valachi Papers 1972
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Mongo's Back in Town 1971
as Mongo Nash
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys 1971
as Danny
Wild Rovers 1971
as Paul Buckman
Adam at Six A.M. 1970
as Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven 1969
as Slater
Cool Hand Luke 1967
as Fixer
Credits from TMDB.