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