Joe Don Baker
Acting • Born 1936-02-12 – Died 2025-05-07
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.
Filmography
82 credits
Cool Hand Luke
Movie • 1967
Fixer
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie • 2007
Self
Cape Fear
Movie • 1991
Claude Kersek
The Living Daylights
Movie • 1987
Brad Whitaker
GoldenEye
Movie • 1995
Jack Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie • 1997
Wade
Poodle Springs
Movie • 1998
P.J. Parker
Congo
Movie • 1995
R.B. Travis
The Distinguished Gentleman
Movie • 1992
Olaf Andersen
Reality Bites
Movie • 1994
Tom Pierce
Junior Bonner
Movie • 1972
Curly Bonner
The Dukes of Hazzard
Movie • 2005
Governor Jim Applewhite
The Natural
Movie • 1984
The Whammer
Leonard Part 6
Movie • 1987
Snyderburn
The Killing Time
Movie • 1987
Carl Cunningham
Walking Tall
Movie • 1973
Buford Pusser
Mitchell
Movie • 1975
Mitchell
Fletch
Movie • 1985
Chief Jerry Karlin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1969
Slater
The Outfit
Movie • 1973
Jack Cody
Joysticks
Movie • 1983
Joseph Rutter
Charley Varrick
Movie • 1973
Molly
Strange Wilderness
Movie • 2008
Bill Calhoun
Criminal Law
Movie • 1989
Detective Mesel
Wild Rovers
Movie • 1971
Paul Buckman
George Wallace
Movie • 1997
Big Jim Folsom
Framed
Movie • 1975
Ron Lewis
The Shadow of Chikara
Movie • 1977
Wishbone Cutter
The Grass Harp
Movie • 1996
Sheriff Junius Candle
Ring of Steel
Movie • 1994
Man in Black
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Speedtrap
Movie • 1977
Pete Novick
Wacko
Movie • 1982
Dick Harbinger
The Pack
Movie • 1977
Jerry
Getting Even
Movie • 1986
King R. Kenderson
Adam at Six A.M.
Movie • 1970
Harvey Gavin
Mud
Movie • 2013
King
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Movie • 1971
Danny
That Certain Summer
Movie • 1972
Phil Bonner
Checkered Flag or Crash
Movie • 1977
Walkaway Madden
Golden Needles
Movie • 1974
Dan Mason
Mongo's Back in Town
Movie • 1971
Mongo Nash
Felony
Movie • 1994
Donovan
Defrosting the Fridge
Movie • 1989
Hunter McCall
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Movie • 1987
Sheriff Onstad
Joe Dirt
Movie • 2001
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Complex of Fear
Movie • 1993
Det. Frank Farrel
Panther
Movie • 1995
Brimmer
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Movie • 1996
Gerry Spence
To Dance with Olivia
Movie • 1997
Horace
The Underneath
Movie • 1995
Clay Hinkle
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
Glenn Norris
The Children
Movie • 1990
Cliffe Wheater
Inside The Living Daylights
Movie • 2000
Self
Vegas, City of Dreams
Movie • 2001
Dylan Garrett
The Valachi Papers
Movie • 1972
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Movie • 2000
Self
The Commission
Movie • 2003
Rep. Hale Boggs
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
To Kill a Cop
Movie • 1978
Chief Earl M. Eischied
Final Justice
Movie • 1984
Geronimo
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Alex Drake
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Woody Stoner
Ironside
TV • 1967
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Yuma
Lancer
TV • 1968
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Tom Lightfoot
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Edge of Darkness
TV • 1985
Darius Jedburgh
Honey West
TV • 1965
Rocky Hansen
Eischied
TV • 1979
Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
TV • 1978
Chief Earl Eischied
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Tom Butler
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
TV • 1999
Buck Duke
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Luke Harper
The Outsider
TV • 1968
Billy Joe Corey
Doc Elliot
TV • 1973
Aaron Hickey
George Wallace
TV • 1997
Big Jim Folsom
Power
TV • 1980
Tommy Vanda
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Frank Kearney