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Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

ActingBorn February 12, 1936Died May 7, 2025 (age 89)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.

Filmography

2013
Mud

as King

Movie
2008
Strange Wilderness

as Bill Calhoun

Movie
2005
The Dukes of Hazzard

as Governor Jim Applewhite

Movie
2003
The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

Movie
2001
Joe Dirt

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Movie
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams

as Dylan Garrett

Movie
1998
Poodle Springs

as P.J. Parker

Movie
1997Movie
1997
George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

Movie
1997
George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

TV
1997Movie
1996
Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris

Movie
1996
The Grass Harp

as Sheriff Junius Candle

Movie
1996Movie
1996TV
1996
Felony

as Donovan

Movie
1995
GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

Movie
1995
Congo

as R.B. Travis

Movie
1995
Panther

as Brimmer

Movie
1995
The Underneath

as Clay Hinkle

Movie
1994
Ring of Steel

as Man in Black

Movie
1994
Reality Bites

as Tom Pierce

Movie
1993
Complex of Fear

as Det. Frank Farrel

Movie
1992Movie
1992
Citizen Cohn

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Movie
1991
Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

Movie
1990
The Children

as Cliffe Wheater

Movie
1989
Criminal Law

as Detective Mesel

Movie
1989
Defrosting the Fridge

as Hunter McCall

Movie
1987
Leonard Part 6

as Snyderburn

Movie
1987
The Killing Time

as Carl Cunningham

Movie
1987
The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

Movie
1987Movie
1986
Getting Even

as King R. Kenderson

Movie
1985
Edge of Darkness

as Darius Jedburgh

TV
1985
Fletch

as Chief Jerry Karlin

Movie
1985
Screen Two

as Hunter McCall

TV
1984
Final Justice

as Geronimo

Movie
1984
The Natural

as The Whammer

Movie
1983
Joysticks

as Joseph Rutter

Movie
1982
Wacko

as Dick Harbinger

Movie
1980
Power

as Tommy Vanda

TV
1979
Eischied

as Earl Eischied

TV
1978
To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl M. Eischied

Movie
1978
To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl Eischied

TV
1977
The Pack

as Jerry

Movie
1977
Speedtrap

as Pete Novick

Movie
1977
The Shadow of Chikara

as Wishbone Cutter

Movie
1977
Checkered Flag or Crash

as Walkaway Madden

Movie
1975
Mitchell

as Mitchell

Movie
1975
Framed

as Ron Lewis

Movie
1974
Golden Needles

as Dan Mason

Movie
1973
The Outfit

as Jack Cody

Movie
1973
Doc Elliot

as Aaron Hickey

TV
1973Movie
1973
Walking Tall

as Buford Pusser

Movie
1972
That Certain Summer

as Phil Bonner

Movie
1972
Junior Bonner

as Curly Bonner

Movie
1972
The Valachi Papers

as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Movie
1971Movie
1971
Wild Rovers

as Paul Buckman

Movie
1970
Adam at Six A.M.

as Harvey Gavin

Movie
1968TV
1968
The Outsider

as Billy Joe Corey

TV
1967Movie
1967TV
1967TV
1966
Mission: Impossible

as Frank Kearney

TV
1965
The F.B.I.

as Alex Drake

TV
1965
Honey West

as Rocky Hansen

TV
1965
The Big Valley

as Tom Lightfoot

TV
1959
Bonanza

as Luke Harper

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Woody Stoner

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Tom Butler

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayFebruary 12, 1936
Day of DeathMay 7, 2025
Place of BirthGroesbeck, Texas, USA
Popularity1.0