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Joe Don Baker1936 - 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.

Credits

Mud

2013

Drama

as King

7.1(2,871)

2.6

Strange Wilderness

2008

Adventure • Comedy

as Bill Calhoun

4.9(229)

1.2

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

0(0)

0.4

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005

Action • Adventure • Comedy

as Governor Jim Applewhite

5.6(1,204)

2.5

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

7.3(6)

0.5

The Commission

2003

Drama

as Rep. Hale Boggs

0(0)

0.3

Best Ever Bond

2002

Action • Documentary

as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

5(4)

0.9

Joe Dirt

2001

Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Mystery • Romance

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

5.6(744)

2.7

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001

Drama

as Dylan Garrett

2.3(3)

0.2

Inside The Living Daylights

2000

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.4

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

2000

Documentary

as Self

6.2(5)

0.1

Poodle Springs

1998

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

as P.J. Parker

5.5(20)

0.5

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997

Action • Adventure • Thriller

as Wade

6.4(3,174)

4.7

George Wallace

1997

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Big Jim Folsom

6.7(15)

0.5

To Dance with Olivia

1997

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Horace

0(1)

0.4

Mars Attacks!

1996

Comedy • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as Glenn Norris

6.4(5,562)

4.3

The Grass Harp

1996

Comedy • Drama • Family

as Sheriff Junius Candle

5.9(31)

0.7

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

1996

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Gerry Spence

5.1(10)

0.3

GoldenEye

1995

Action • Adventure • Thriller

as Jack Wade

6.9(4,004)

5.6

Congo

1995

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

as R.B. Travis

5.6(907)

2.8

Panther

1995

Drama • History

as Brimmer

6.3(39)

1.2

The Underneath

1995

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Clay Hinkle

5.6(80)

0.8

Felony

1994

Action • Thriller

as Donovan

5.2(6)

0.5

Ring of Steel

1994

Action • Drama

as Man in Black

5.5(10)

0.4

Reality Bites

1994

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Tom Pierce

6.6(747)

1.8

Complex of Fear

1993

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie • Thriller

as Det. Frank Farrel

6.4(5)

0.3

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992

Comedy

as Olaf Andersen

6.1(310)

0.8

Citizen Cohn

1992

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

6.3(21)

0.6

Cape Fear

1991

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Claude Kersek

7.3(3,527)

4.6

The Children

1990

Drama

as Cliffe Wheater

5.2(2)

0.3

Criminal Law

1989

Drama • Romance • Thriller

as Detective Mesel

5.6(112)

0.8

Defrosting the Fridge

1989

Drama • TV Movie

as Hunter McCall

1(1)

0.2

Leonard Part 6

1987

Action • Comedy • Science Fiction

as Snyderburn

2.8(67)

0.8

The Killing Time

1987

Action • Mystery • Romance • Thriller

as Carl Cunningham

4.7(29)

0.5

The Living Daylights

1987

Action • Adventure • Thriller

as Brad Whitaker

6.5(1,834)

4.3

Abduction

1987

TV Movie • Thriller

as Sheriff Onstad

5.5(2)

0.4

Getting Even

1986

Action • Adventure

as King R. Kenderson

2.5(6)

0.6

Fletch

1985

Comedy • Crime • Mystery

as Chief Jerry Karlin

6.7(692)

1.6

Final Justice

1984

Action • Crime • Drama

as Geronimo

2.5(36)

0.4

The Natural

1984

Drama

as The Whammer

6.9(603)

2.3

Joysticks

1983

Comedy

as Joseph Rutter

4.7(66)

Wacko

1982

Comedy • Horror

as Dick Harbinger

5.2(28)

0.8

Power

1980

Drama • TV Movie

as Tommy Vanda

2(1)

0.4

To Kill a Cop

1978

Action • Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Chief Earl M. Eischied

0(0)

0.4

The Pack

1977

Adventure • Horror • Thriller

as Jerry

6.9(26)

0.3

Speedtrap

1977

Action • Crime • Drama

as Pete Novick

5.5(2)

0.5

The Shadow of Chikara

1977

Horror • Western

as Wishbone Cutter

4.7(16)

Checkered Flag or Crash

1977

Action • Adventure • Comedy

as Walkaway Madden

2.8(4)

0.2

Mitchell

1975

Action • Crime • Drama

as Mitchell

3.3(42)

0.9

Framed

1975

Action • Crime • Thriller

as Ron Lewis

6.6(16)

0.8

Golden Needles

1974

Action

as Dan Mason

4.3(9)

0.5

The Outfit

1973

Crime • Drama

as Cody

6.8(78)

0.7

Charley Varrick

1973

Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Molly

7.4(255)

1.3

Walking Tall

1973

Action • Crime • Drama

as Buford Pusser

6.6(132)

4.1

That Certain Summer

1972

Drama • TV Movie

as Phil Bonner

6.9(14)

0.2

Junior Bonner

1972

Drama • Western

as Curly Bonner

6.1(107)

0.5

The Valachi Papers

1972

Crime • Drama

as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

6.5(105)

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

1971

Drama

as Danny

3.5(2)

0.1

Mongo's Back in Town

1971

Action • Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Mongo Nash

4.8(3)

0.2

Wild Rovers

1971

Action • Western

as Paul Buckman

6.3(45)

0.6

Adam at Six A.M.

1970

Drama

as Harvey Gavin

4.7(11)

0.3

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969

Western

as Slater

5.3(101)

1.1

Cool Hand Luke

1967

Crime • Drama

as Fixer

7.7(1,472)

2.1