Actor
Joe Don Baker
Biography

Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is 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
2013 -- Mud | King
2008 -- Strange Wilderness | Bill Calhoun
2007 -- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self
2005 -- The Dukes of Hazzard | Governor Jim Applewhite
2004 -- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage)
2003 -- The Commission | Rep. Hale Boggs
2002 -- Best Ever Bond | Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001 -- Joe Dirt | Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001 -- Vegas, City of Dreams | Dylan Garrett
2000 -- Inside 'The Living Daylights' | Self
2000 -- Inside The Living Daylights | Self
1998 -- Poodle Springs | P.J. Parker
1997 -- Tomorrow Never Dies | Jack Wade
1997 -- George Wallace | Big Jim Folsom
1997 -- To Dance with Olivia | Horace
1996 -- Mars Attacks! | Glenn Norris
1996 -- The Siege at Ruby Ridge | Gerry Spence
1995 -- GoldenEye | Jack Wade
1995 -- The Grass Harp | Sheriff Junius Candle
1995 -- Congo | R.B. Travis
1995 -- Panther | Brimmer
1995 -- The Underneath | Clay Hinkle
1994 -- Felony | Donovan
1994 -- Ring of Steel | Man in Black
1994 -- Reality Bites | Tom Pierce
1993 -- Complex of Fear | Det. Frank Farrel
1992 -- The Distinguished Gentleman | Olaf Andersen
1992 -- Citizen Cohn | Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1991 -- Cape Fear | Claude Kersek
1990 -- The Children | Cliffe Wheater
1989 -- Criminal Law | Detective Mesel
1989 -- Defrosting the Fridge | Hunter McCall
1987 -- Leonard Part 6 | Snyderburn
1987 -- The Killing Time | Carl Cunningham
1987 -- The Living Daylights | Brad Whitaker
1987 -- Abduction | Sheriff Onstad
1986 -- Getting Even | King R. Kenderson
1985 -- Fletch | Chief Jerry Karlin
1984 -- Final Justice | Geronimo
1984 -- The Natural | The Whammer
1983 -- Joysticks | Joseph Rutter
1982 -- Wacko | Dick Harbinger
1980 -- Power | Tommy Vanda
1978 -- To Kill a Cop | Chief Earl M. Eischied
1977 -- The Pack | Jerry
1977 -- Speedtrap | Pete Novick
1977 -- The Shadow of Chikara | Wishbone Cutter
1977 -- Checkered Flag or Crash | Walkaway Madden
1975 -- Mitchell | Mitchell
1975 -- Framed | Ron Lewis
1974 -- Golden Needles | Dan Mason
1973 -- The Outfit | Cody
1973 -- Charley Varrick | Molly
1973 -- Walking Tall | Buford Pusser
1972 -- That Certain Summer | Phil Bonner
1972 -- Junior Bonner | Curly Bonner
1972 -- The Valachi Papers | Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1971 -- Mongo's Back in Town | Mongo Nash
1971 -- Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Danny
1971 -- Wild Rovers | Paul Buckman
1970 -- Adam at Six A.M. | Harvey Gavin
1969 -- Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Slater
1967 -- Cool Hand Luke | Fixer
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