
Joe Don Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 12, 1936
- Died
- May 7, 2025 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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.
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Filmography

Mud
Movie · as King

Strange Wilderness
Movie · as Bill Calhoun

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie · as Self

The Dukes of Hazzard
Movie · as Governor Jim Applewhite

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Commission
Movie · as Rep. Hale Boggs

Joe Dirt
Movie · as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Vegas, City of Dreams
Movie · as Dylan Garrett

Inside The Living Daylights
Movie · as Self

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Movie · as Self

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
TV · as Buck Duke · 4 eps

Poodle Springs
Movie · as P.J. Parker

Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie · as Wade

George Wallace
Movie · as Big Jim Folsom

To Dance with Olivia
Movie · as Horace

George Wallace
TV · as Big Jim Folsom · 2 eps

The Grass Harp
Movie · as Sheriff Junius Candle

Felony
Movie · as Donovan

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Movie · as Gerry Spence

Mars Attacks!
Movie · as Glenn Norris

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
TV · as Gerry Spence · 2 eps

GoldenEye
Movie · as Jack Wade

Congo
Movie · as R.B. Travis

Panther
Movie · as Brimmer

The Underneath
Movie · as Clay Hinkle

Reality Bites
Movie · as Tom Pierce

Ring of Steel
Movie · as Man in Black

Complex of Fear
Movie · as Det. Frank Farrel

The Distinguished Gentleman
Movie · as Olaf Andersen

Citizen Cohn
Movie · as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Cape Fear
Movie · as Claude Kersek

The Children
Movie · as Cliffe Wheater

Criminal Law
Movie · as Detective Mesel

Defrosting the Fridge
Movie · as Hunter McCall

The Living Daylights
Movie · as Brad Whitaker

Leonard Part 6
Movie · as Snyderburn

The Killing Time
Movie · as Carl Cunningham

The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Movie · as Sheriff Onstad

Getting Even
Movie · as King R. Kenderson

Fletch
Movie · as Chief Jerry Karlin

Screen Two
TV · as Hunter McCall · 1 ep

Edge of Darkness
TV · as Darius Jedburgh · 6 eps

The Natural
Movie · as The Whammer

Final Justice
Movie · as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

Joysticks
Movie · as Joseph Rutter

Wacko
Movie · as Dick Harbinger

Power
TV · as Tommy Vanda · 2 eps

Eischied
TV · as Earl Eischied · 13 eps

To Kill a Cop
Movie · as Chief Earl M. Eischied

To Kill a Cop
TV · as Chief Earl Eischied · 2 eps

The Shadow of Chikara
Movie · as Wishbone Cutter

Speedtrap
Movie · as Pete Novick

The Pack
Movie · as Jerry

Checkered Flag or Crash
Movie · as Walkaway Madden

Mitchell
Movie · as Mitchell

Framed
Movie · as Ron Lewis

Golden Needles
Movie · as Dan Mason

Walking Tall
Movie · as Buford Pusser

The Outfit
Movie · as Jack Cody

Charley Varrick
Movie · as Molly

Doc Elliot
TV · as Aaron Hickey · 1 ep

Junior Bonner
Movie · as Curly Bonner

That Certain Summer
Movie · as Phil Bonner

The Valachi Papers
Movie · as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Leonard Collier Cord · 1 ep

Wild Rovers
Movie · as Paul Buckman

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Movie · as Danny

Mongo's Back in Town
Movie · as Mongo Nash

Adam at Six A.M.
Movie · as Harvey Gavin

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Movie · as Slater

The Mod Squad
TV · as Willie Turner · 1 ep

The Outsider
TV · as Billy Joe Corey · 1 ep

Lancer
TV · as Day Pardee, Santee, Clovis Horner · 1 ep

Cool Hand Luke
Movie · as Fixer

Ironside
TV · as Eric Blair · 1 ep

The High Chaparral
TV · as Yuma · 1 ep

Judd, for the Defense
TV · as Merl Varney · 1 ep

Felony Squad
TV · as Shep Taubs · 1 ep

Mission: Impossible
TV · as Frank Kearney · 1 ep

The F.B.I.
TV · as Alex Drake · 1 ep

The Big Valley
TV · as Tom Lightfoot · 1 ep

Honey West
TV · as Rocky Hansen · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Luke Harper · 1 ep

Gunsmoke
TV · as Woody Stoner, Tom Butler · 1 ep


