Joe Don Baker
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.
Acting
Movie
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
1996
Movie
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
1995
Movie
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
1991
Movie
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
1997
Movie
Mud
as King
2013
Movie
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
1987
Movie
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer
1967
Movie
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
2005
Movie
Congo
as R.B. Travis
1995
Movie
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
Movie
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
1994
Movie
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
1985
Movie
The Natural
as The Whammer
1984
TV
Bonanza
as Luke Harper
1959
Movie
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
1992
TV
Mission: Impossible
as Frank Kearney
1966
Movie
Charley Varrick
as Molly
1973
Movie
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
2008
Movie
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
1973
Movie
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
1989
Movie
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater
1969
Movie
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
1972
Movie
The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1972
TV
Gunsmoke
as Woody Stoner
1955