Joe Don Baker
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 12, 1936, Groesbeck, Texas, USA
- Died
- May 7, 2025
- Movies
- 61
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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 |
| 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 | Wade |
| 1997 | George Wallace | Big Jim Folsom |
| 1997 | To Dance with Olivia | Horace |
| 1996 | Mars Attacks! | Glenn Norris |
| 1996 | The Grass Harp | Sheriff Junius Candle |
| 1996 | The Siege at Ruby Ridge | Gerry Spence |
| 1996 | Felony | Donovan |
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Jack Wade |
| 1995 | Congo | R.B. Travis |
| 1995 | Panther | Brimmer |
| 1995 | The Underneath | Clay Hinkle |
| 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 | The Abduction of Kari Swenson | Sheriff Onstad |
| 1986 | Getting Even | King R. Kenderson |
| 1985 | Fletch | Chief Jerry Karlin |
| 1984 | Final Justice | Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III |
| 1984 | The Natural | The Whammer |
| 1983 | Joysticks | Joseph Rutter |
| 1982 | Wacko | Dick Harbinger |
| 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 | Jack 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 | Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Danny |
| 1971 | Mongo's Back in Town | Mongo Nash |
| 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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