Joe Don Baker
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.
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Also Known As
Movies (45)
Mud
as King
2013
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
2005
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
2003
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
2001
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self
2000
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
1998
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
1997
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
1997
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
1996
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
1996
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
1996
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
1995
Congo
as R.B. Travis
1995
Panther
as Brimmer
1995
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
1995
Felony
as Donovan
1994
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
1994
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
1994
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
1993
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
1992
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1992
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
1991
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
1990
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
1989
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
1989
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
1987
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
1987
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
1987
Abduction
as Sheriff Onstad
1987
Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
1986
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
1985
Final Justice
as Geronimo
1984
The Natural
as The Whammer
1984
Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
1983
Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
1982
Power
as Tommy Vanda
1980
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
1978
The Pack
as Jerry
1977
Speedtrap
as Pete Novick
1977
