Joe Don Baker
Acting
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.
Known for
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movieMud
2013
King
movieStrange Wilderness
2008
Bill Calhoun
movieThe Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Governor Jim Applewhite
movieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Commission
2003
Rep. Hale Boggs
movieJoe Dirt
2001
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
movieVegas, City of Dreams
2001
Dylan Garrett
moviePoodle Springs
1998
P.J. Parker
movieGeorge Wallace
1997
Big Jim Folsom
tvGeorge Wallace
1997
Big Jim Folsom
movieMars Attacks!
1996
Glenn Norris
movieThe Grass Harp
1996
Sheriff Junius Candle
movieThe Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Gerry Spence
tvThe Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Gerry Spence
movieFelony
1996
Donovan
movieGoldenEye
1995
Jack Wade
movieCongo
1995
R.B. Travis
moviePanther
1995
Brimmer
movieThe Underneath
1995
Clay Hinkle
movieRing of Steel
1994
Man in Black
movieReality Bites
1994
Tom Pierce
movieComplex of Fear
1993
Det. Frank Farrel
movieThe Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Olaf Andersen
movieCitizen Cohn
1992
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
movieCape Fear
1991
Claude Kersek
movieThe Children
1990
Cliffe Wheater
movieCriminal Law
1989
Detective Mesel
movieDefrosting the Fridge
1989
Hunter McCall
movieLeonard Part 6
1987
Snyderburn
movieThe Killing Time
1987
Carl Cunningham
movieThe Living Daylights
1987
Brad Whitaker
movieThe Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Sheriff Onstad
movieGetting Even
1986
King R. Kenderson
tvEdge of Darkness
1985
Darius Jedburgh
movieFletch
1985
Chief Jerry Karlin
tvScreen Two
1985
Hunter McCall
movieFinal Justice
1984
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
movieThe Natural
1984
The Whammer
movieJoysticks
1983
Joseph Rutter
movieWacko
1982
Dick Harbinger
tvPower
1980
Tommy Vanda
tvEischied
1979
Earl Eischied
movieTo Kill a Cop
1978
Chief Earl M. Eischied
tvTo Kill a Cop
1978
Chief Earl Eischied
movieThe Pack
1977
Jerry
movieSpeedtrap
1977
Pete Novick
movieThe Shadow of Chikara
1977
Wishbone Cutter
movieCheckered Flag or Crash
1977
Walkaway Madden
movieMitchell
1975
Mitchell
movieFramed
1975
Ron Lewis
movieGolden Needles
1974
Dan Mason
movieThe Outfit
1973
Jack Cody
tvDoc Elliot
1973
Aaron Hickey
movieWalking Tall
1973
Buford Pusser
movieThat Certain Summer
1972
Phil Bonner
movieJunior Bonner
1972
Curly Bonner
movieThe Valachi Papers
1972
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
movieMongo's Back in Town
1971
Mongo Nash
movieWild Rovers
1971
Paul Buckman
movieAdam at Six A.M.
1970
Harvey Gavin
tvThe Outsider
1968
Billy Joe Corey
tvMission: Impossible
1966
Frank Kearney
tvThe F.B.I.
1965
Alex Drake
tvHoney West
1965
Rocky Hansen
tvThe Big Valley
1965
Tom Lightfoot
tvBonanza
1959
Luke Harper
tvGunsmoke
1955
Woody Stoner / Tom Butler