1936Born, Groesbeck
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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.
Known for
Mars Attacks!Glenn Norris
GoldenEyeJack Wade
Cape FearClaude Kersek
Tomorrow Never DiesWade
MudKing2013MudKingMovie
2008Strange WildernessBill CalhounMovie
2005The Dukes of HazzardGovernor Jim ApplewhiteMovie
2003The CommissionRep. Hale BoggsMovie
2001Joe DirtDon, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)Movie
2001Vegas, City of DreamsDylan GarrettMovie
1999Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeBuck Duke · 4 episodesShow
1998Poodle SpringsP.J. ParkerMovie
1997Tomorrow Never DiesWadeMovie
1997George WallaceBig Jim FolsomMovie
1997George WallaceBig Jim Folsom · 2 episodesShow
1997To Dance with OliviaHoraceMovie
1996Mars Attacks!Glenn NorrisMovie
1996The Grass HarpSheriff Junius CandleMovie
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeGerry SpenceMovie
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeGerry Spence · 2 episodesShow
1996FelonyDonovanMovie
1995GoldenEyeJack WadeMovie
1995CongoR.B. TravisMovie
1995PantherBrimmerMovie
1995The UnderneathClay HinkleMovie
1994Ring of SteelMan in BlackMovie
1994Reality BitesTom PierceMovie
1993Complex of FearDet. Frank FarrelMovie
1992The Distinguished GentlemanOlaf AndersenMovie
1992Citizen CohnSen. Joseph McCarthyMovie
1991Cape FearClaude KersekMovie
1990The ChildrenCliffe WheaterMovie
1989Criminal LawDetective MeselMovie
1989Defrosting the FridgeHunter McCallMovie
1987Leonard Part 6SnyderburnMovie
1987The Killing TimeCarl CunninghamMovie
1987The Living DaylightsBrad WhitakerMovie
1987The Abduction of Kari SwensonSheriff OnstadMovie
1986Getting EvenKing R. KendersonMovie
1985Edge of DarknessDarius Jedburgh · 6 episodesShow
1985FletchChief Jerry KarlinMovie
1985Screen TwoHunter McCall · 1 episodeShow
1984Final JusticeDeputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo IIIMovie
1984The NaturalThe WhammerMovie
1983JoysticksJoseph RutterMovie
1982WackoDick HarbingerMovie
1980PowerTommy Vanda · 2 episodesShow
1979EischiedEarl Eischied · 13 episodesShow
1978To Kill a CopChief Earl M. EischiedMovie
1978To Kill a CopChief Earl Eischied · 2 episodesShow
1977The PackJerryMovie
1977SpeedtrapPete NovickMovie
1977The Shadow of ChikaraWishbone CutterMovie
1977Checkered Flag or CrashWalkaway MaddenMovie
1975MitchellMitchellMovie
1975FramedRon LewisMovie
1974Golden NeedlesDan MasonMovie
1973The OutfitJack CodyMovie
1973Doc ElliotAaron Hickey · 1 episodeShow
1973Charley VarrickMollyMovie
1973Walking TallBuford PusserMovie
1972That Certain SummerPhil BonnerMovie
1972The Streets of San FranciscoLeonard Collier Cord · 1 episodeShow
1972Junior BonnerCurly BonnerMovie
1972The Valachi PapersIrish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)Movie
1971Welcome Home, Soldier BoysDannyMovie
1971Mongo's Back in TownMongo NashMovie
1971Wild RoversPaul BuckmanMovie
1970Adam at Six A.M.Harvey GavinMovie
1969Guns of the Magnificent SevenSlaterMovie
1968The Mod SquadWillie Turner · 1 episodeShow
1968LancerDay Pardee, Santee, Clovis Horner · 1 episodeShow
1968The OutsiderBilly Joe Corey · 1 episodeShow
1967Cool Hand LukeFixerMovie
1967Judd, for the DefenseMerl Varney · 1 episodeShow
1967IronsideEric Blair · 1 episodeShow
1966Mission: ImpossibleFrank Kearney · 1 episodeShow
1966Felony SquadShep Taubs · 1 episodeShow
1965The F.B.I.Alex Drake · 1 episodeShow
1965Honey WestRocky Hansen · 1 episodeShow
1965The Big ValleyTom Lightfoot · 1 episodeShow
1959BonanzaLuke Harper · 1 episodeShow
1955GunsmokeWoody Stoner, Tom Butler · 1 episodeShow
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