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