Joe Don Baker
Acting
🎂 1936-02-12
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.
Cast credits(82)
Luke Harper
1959
1967
1966
Tom Lightfoot
1965
Alex Drake
1965
Woody Stoner
1955
Tom Butler
1955
Yuma
1967
1966
Jack Wade
1995
1968
Wade
1997
Glenn Norris
1996
1967
Rocky Hansen
1965
Brad Whitaker
1987
1968
Claude Kersek
1991
Billy Joe Corey
1968
Governor Jim Applewhite
2005
R.B. Travis
1995
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1972
Fixer
1967
Buford Pusser
1973
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
King
2013
Tom Pierce
1994
Bill Calhoun
2008
Slater
1969
Olaf Andersen
1992
Chief Jerry Karlin
1985
Gerry Spence
1996
The Whammer
1984
Sheriff Junius Candle
1996
Self
2000
Darius Jedburgh
1985
Snyderburn
1987
Molly
1973
Mitchell
1975
Paul Buckman
1971
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1992
Big Jim Folsom
1997
Brimmer
1995
Chief Earl M. Eischied
1978
Joseph Rutter
1983
Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Harvey Gavin
1970
Buck Duke
1999
Clay Hinkle
1995
Detective Mesel
1989
Self
2000
Wishbone Cutter
1977
Rep. Hale Boggs
2003
Tommy Vanda
1980
Aaron Hickey
1973
Earl Eischied
1979
Cody
1973
P.J. Parker
1998
Sheriff Onstad
1987
Curly Bonner
1972
Dick Harbinger
1982
Hunter McCall
1989
Ron Lewis
1975
Self (archive footage)
2004
Man in Black
1994
Danny
1971
Dylan Garrett
2001
Horace
1997
Det. Frank Farrel
1993
Cliffe Wheater
1990
King R. Kenderson
1986
Carl Cunningham
1987
Chief Earl Eischied
1978
Mongo Nash
1971
Dan Mason
1974
Self
2007
Donovan
1994
Jerry
1977
Walkaway Madden
1977
Geronimo
1984
Phil Bonner
1972
Pete Novick
1977