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.
2013MudMovieas King2008Strange WildernessMovieas Bill Calhoun
2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasMovieas Self2005The Dukes of HazzardMovieas Governor Jim Applewhite
2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeMovieas Self (archive footage)
2003The CommissionMovieas Rep. Hale Boggs2001Joe DirtMovieas Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001Vegas, City of DreamsMovieas Dylan Garrett
2000Inside 'The Living Daylights'Movieas Self
2000Inside The Living DaylightsMovieas Self
1999Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeTV showas Buck Duke · 4 episodes
1998Poodle SpringsMovieas P.J. Parker1997Tomorrow Never DiesMovieas Wade
1997George WallaceMovieas Big Jim Folsom
1997George WallaceTV showas Big Jim Folsom · 2 episodes
1997To Dance with OliviaMovieas Horace1996Mars Attacks!Movieas Glenn Norris
1996The Grass HarpMovieas Sheriff Junius Candle
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeMovieas Gerry Spence
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeTV showas Gerry Spence · 2 episodes
1996FelonyMovieas Donovan1995GoldenEyeMovieas Jack Wade1995CongoMovieas R.B. Travis
1995PantherMovieas Brimmer
1995The UnderneathMovieas Clay Hinkle
1994Ring of SteelMovieas Man in Black1994Reality BitesMovieas Tom Pierce
1993Complex of FearMovieas Det. Frank Farrel1992The Distinguished GentlemanMovieas Olaf Andersen
1992Citizen CohnMovieas Sen. Joseph McCarthy1991Cape FearMovieas Claude Kersek
1990The ChildrenMovieas Cliffe Wheater1989Criminal LawMovieas Detective Mesel
1989Defrosting the FridgeMovieas Hunter McCall
1987Leonard Part 6Movieas Snyderburn
1987The Killing TimeMovieas Carl Cunningham1987The Living DaylightsMovieas Brad Whitaker
1987The Abduction of Kari SwensonMovieas Sheriff Onstad
1986Getting EvenMovieas King R. Kenderson
1985Edge of DarknessTV showas Darius Jedburgh · 6 episodes1985FletchMovieas Chief Jerry Karlin
1985Screen TwoTV showas Hunter McCall · 1 episodes
1984Final JusticeMovieas Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III1984The NaturalMovieas The Whammer
1983JoysticksMovieas Joseph Rutter
1982WackoMovieas Dick Harbinger
1980PowerTV showas Tommy Vanda · 2 episodes
1979EischiedTV showas Earl Eischied · 13 episodes
1978To Kill a CopTV showas Chief Earl Eischied · 2 episodes
1978To Kill a CopMovieas Chief Earl M. Eischied
1977The PackMovieas Jerry
1977SpeedtrapMovieas Pete Novick
1977The Shadow of ChikaraMovieas Wishbone Cutter
1977Checkered Flag or CrashMovieas Walkaway Madden
1975MitchellMovieas Mitchell
1975FramedMovieas Ron Lewis
1974Golden NeedlesMovieas Dan Mason
1973The OutfitMovieas Jack Cody
1973Doc ElliotTV showas Aaron Hickey · 1 episodes1973Charley VarrickMovieas Molly1973Walking TallMovieas Buford Pusser
1972That Certain SummerMovieas Phil Bonner
1972The Streets of San FranciscoTV showas Leonard Collier Cord · 1 episodes
1972Junior BonnerMovieas Curly Bonner
1972The Valachi PapersMovieas Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1971Welcome Home, Soldier BoysMovieas Danny
1971Mongo's Back in TownMovieas Mongo Nash
1971Wild RoversMovieas Paul Buckman
1970Adam at Six A.M.Movieas Harvey Gavin
1969Guns of the Magnificent SevenMovieas Slater
1968The Mod SquadTV showas Willie Turner · 1 episodes
1968LancerTV showas Day Pardee · as Santee · as Clovis Horner · 1 episodes
1968The OutsiderTV showas Billy Joe Corey · 1 episodes1967Cool Hand LukeMovieas Fixer
1967The High ChaparralTV showas Yuma · 1 episodes
1967Judd, for the DefenseTV showas Merl Varney · 1 episodes
1967IronsideTV showas Eric Blair · 1 episodes1966Mission: ImpossibleTV showas Frank Kearney · 1 episodes
1966Felony SquadTV showas Shep Taubs · 1 episodes
1965The F.B.I.TV showas Alex Drake · 1 episodes
1965Honey WestTV showas Rocky Hansen · 1 episodes
1965The Big ValleyTV showas Tom Lightfoot · 1 episodes1959BonanzaTV showas Luke Harper · 1 episodes
1955GunsmokeTV showas Woody Stoner · as Tom Butler · 1 episodes