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Joe Don Baker

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: Acting

Born: Groesbeck, Texas, USA, 1936-02-12

Died: 2025-05-07

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Cool Hand Luke	Fixer	77
2	1969	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Slater	53
3	1970	Adam at Six A.M.	Harvey Gavin	47
4	1971	Wild Rovers	Paul Buckman	63
5	1971	Welcome Home, Soldier Boys	Danny	35
6	1971	Mongo's Back in Town	Mongo Nash	48
7	1972	The Valachi Papers	Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)	65
8	1972	Junior Bonner	Curly Bonner	61
9	1972	That Certain Summer	Phil Bonner	69
10	1973	Walking Tall	Buford Pusser	66
11	1973	Charley Varrick	Molly	74
12	1973	The Outfit	Cody	68
13	1974	Golden Needles	Dan Mason	43
14	1975	Framed	Ron Lewis	66
15	1975	Mitchell	Mitchell	32
16	1977	Checkered Flag or Crash	Walkaway Madden	28
17	1977	The Shadow of Chikara	Wishbone Cutter	47
18	1977	Speedtrap	Pete Novick	55
19	1977	The Pack	Jerry	69
20	1978	To Kill a Cop	Chief Earl M. Eischied	0
21	1980	Power	Tommy Vanda	20
22	1982	Wacko	Dick Harbinger	51
23	1983	Joysticks	Joseph Rutter	47
24	1984	The Natural	The Whammer	69
25	1984	Final Justice	Geronimo	25
26	1985	Fletch	Chief Jerry Karlin	67
27	1986	Getting Even	King R. Kenderson	25
28	1987	Abduction	Sheriff Onstad	55
29	1987	The Living Daylights	Brad Whitaker	65
30	1987	The Killing Time	Carl Cunningham	48
31	1987	Leonard Part 6	Snyderburn	28
32	1989	Defrosting the Fridge	Hunter McCall	10
33	1989	Criminal Law	Detective Mesel	56
34	1990	The Children	Cliffe Wheater	38
35	1991	Cape Fear	Claude Kersek	73
36	1992	Citizen Cohn	Sen. Joseph McCarthy	63
37	1992	The Distinguished Gentleman	Olaf Andersen	61
38	1993	Complex of Fear	Det. Frank Farrel	64
39	1994	Reality Bites	Tom Pierce	66
40	1994	Ring of Steel	Man in Black	51
41	1994	Felony	Donovan	46
42	1995	The Underneath	Clay Hinkle	56
43	1995	Panther	Brimmer	62
44	1995	Congo	R.B. Travis	56
45	1995	GoldenEye	Jack Wade	69
46	1996	The Siege at Ruby Ridge	Gerry Spence	51
47	1996	The Grass Harp	Sheriff Junius Candle	58
48	1996	Mars Attacks!	Glenn Norris	64
49	1997	To Dance with Olivia	Horace	0
50	1997	George Wallace	Big Jim Folsom	68
51	1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	Wade	64
52	1998	Poodle Springs	P.J. Parker	55
53	2000	Inside The Living Daylights	Self	80
54	2000	Inside 'The Living Daylights'	Self	62
55	2001	Vegas, City of Dreams	Dylan Garrett	20
56	2001	Joe Dirt	Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)	56
57	2002	Best Ever Bond	Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
58	2003	The Commission	Rep. Hale Boggs	10
59	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74
60	2005	The Dukes of Hazzard	Governor Jim Applewhite	56
61	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
62	2008	Strange Wilderness	Bill Calhoun	49
63	2013	Mud	King	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Gunsmoke	Woody Stoner	66
2	1955	Gunsmoke	Tom Butler	66
3	1959	Bonanza	Luke Harper	75
4	1965	The Big Valley	Tom Lightfoot	61
5	1965	Honey West	Rocky Hansen	70
6	1965	The F.B.I.	Alex Drake	55
7	1966	Felony Squad		64
8	1966	Mission: Impossible		76
9	1967	Ironside		68
10	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
11	1967	The High Chaparral	Yuma	65
12	1968	The Outsider	Billy Joe Corey	52
13	1968	The Mod Squad		63
14	1968	Lancer		47
15	1973	Doc Elliot	Aaron Hickey	0
16	1978	To Kill a Cop	Chief Earl Eischied	0
17	1979	Eischied	Earl Eischied	60
18	1985	Edge of Darkness	Darius Jedburgh	80
19	1999	Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke	Buck Duke	20