Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is 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.

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Known For

Bonanza

1959 • as Luke Harper

The F.B.I.

1965 • as Alex Drake

Ironside

1967

Mission: Impossible

1966

The High Chaparral

1967 • as Yuma

The Big Valley

1965 • as Tom Lightfoot

Filmography

2013

Mud

as King

Movie - Released: 4/26/2013

2008

Strange Wilderness

as Bill Calhoun

Movie - Released: 2/1/2008

2007

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Self

Movie - Released: 2/3/2007

2005

The Dukes of Hazzard

as Governor Jim Applewhite

Movie - Released: 8/5/2005

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 7/25/2004

2003

The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

Movie - Released: 11/7/2003

2002

Movie

Best Ever Bond

as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 11/22/2002

2001

Joe Dirt

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 4/10/2001

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Dylan Garrett

Movie - Released: 4/1/2001

2000

Inside The Living Daylights

as Self

Movie - Released: 10/17/2000

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

as Self

Movie - Released: 10/17/2000

1999

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

as Buck Duke

TV - Released: 2/21/1999

1998

Poodle Springs

as P.J. Parker

Movie - Released: 7/25/1998

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Jack Wade

Movie - Released: 12/11/1997

George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

Movie - Released: 8/24/1997

To Dance with Olivia

as Horace

Movie - Released: 3/9/1997

1996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

as Gerry Spence

Movie - Released: 5/19/1996

Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris

Movie - Released: 12/13/1996

1995

GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

Movie - Released: 11/16/1995

Congo

as R.B. Travis

Movie - Released: 6/9/1995

The Grass Harp

as Sheriff Junius Candle

Movie - Released: 9/10/1995

Panther

as Brimmer

Movie - Released: 5/3/1995

The Underneath

as Clay Hinkle

Movie - Released: 4/28/1995

1994

Reality Bites

as Tom Pierce

Movie - Released: 2/18/1994

Ring of Steel

as Man in Black

Movie - Released: 3/30/1994

Felony

as Donovan

Movie - Released: 10/19/1994

1993

Complex of Fear

as Det. Frank Farrel

Movie - Released: 1/12/1993

1992

The Distinguished Gentleman

as Olaf Andersen

Movie - Released: 12/4/1992

Citizen Cohn

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Movie - Released: 8/22/1992

1991

Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

Movie - Released: 11/13/1991

1990

The Children

as Cliffe Wheater

Movie - Released: 5/18/1990

1989

Criminal Law

as Detective Mesel

Movie - Released: 4/28/1989

Defrosting the Fridge

as Hunter McCall

Movie - Released: 3/26/1989

1987

The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

Movie - Released: 6/29/1987

Leonard Part 6

as Snyderburn

Movie - Released: 12/18/1987

The Killing Time

as Carl Cunningham

Movie - Released: 10/23/1987

Abduction

as Sheriff Onstad

Movie - Released: 3/8/1987

1986

Getting Even

as King R. Kenderson

Movie - Released: 2/21/1986

1985

Fletch

as Chief Jerry Karlin

Movie - Released: 5/31/1985

Edge of Darkness

as Darius Jedburgh

TV - Released: 11/4/1985

1984

The Natural

as The Whammer

Movie - Released: 5/11/1984

Final Justice

as Geronimo

Movie - Released: 10/28/1984

1983

Joysticks

as Joseph Rutter

Movie - Released: 3/4/1983

1982

Wacko

as Dick Harbinger

Movie - Released: 11/12/1982

1980

Power

as Tommy Vanda

Movie - Released: 1/14/1980

1979

Eischied

as Earl Eischied

TV - Released: 9/21/1979

1978

To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl M. Eischied

Movie - Released: 4/10/1978

To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl Eischied

TV - Released: 4/10/1978

1977

The Shadow of Chikara

as Wishbone Cutter

Movie - Released: 7/15/1977

Speedtrap

as Pete Novick

Movie - Released: 9/1/1977

The Pack

as Jerry

Movie - Released: 11/20/1977

Checkered Flag or Crash

as Walkaway Madden

Movie - Released: 5/21/1977

1975

Mitchell

as Mitchell

Movie - Released: 9/10/1975

Framed

as Ron Lewis

Movie - Released: 8/1/1975

1974

Golden Needles

as Dan Mason

Movie - Released: 7/17/1974

1973

Walking Tall

as Buford Pusser

Movie - Released: 2/22/1973

The Outfit

as Cody

Movie - Released: 10/19/1973

Charley Varrick

as Molly

Movie - Released: 9/19/1973

Doc Elliot

as Aaron Hickey

TV - Released: 10/10/1973

1972

Junior Bonner

as Curly Bonner

Movie - Released: 8/2/1972

That Certain Summer

as Phil Bonner

Movie - Released: 11/1/1972

The Valachi Papers

as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 1/6/1972

1971

Wild Rovers

as Paul Buckman

Movie - Released: 6/23/1971

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

as Danny

Movie - Released: 12/10/1971

Mongo's Back in Town

as Mongo Nash

Movie - Released: 12/10/1971

1970

Adam at Six A.M.

as Harvey Gavin

Movie - Released: 9/22/1970

1969

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Slater

Movie - Released: 7/14/1969

1968

The Mod Squad

TV - Released: 9/24/1968

Lancer

TV - Released: 9/24/1968

The Outsider

as Billy Joe Corey

TV - Released: 9/18/1968

1967

Cool Hand Luke

as Fixer

Movie - Released: 11/1/1967

Ironside

TV - Released: 3/28/1967

The High Chaparral

as Yuma

TV - Released: 9/10/1967

Judd for the Defense

TV - Released: 9/8/1967

1966

Mission: Impossible

TV - Released: 9/17/1966

Felony Squad

TV - Released: 9/12/1966

1965

The F.B.I.

as Alex Drake

TV - Released: 9/19/1965

The Big Valley

as Tom Lightfoot

TV - Released: 9/15/1965

Honey West

as Rocky Hansen

TV - Released: 9/17/1965

1959

Bonanza

as Luke Harper

TV - Released: 9/12/1959

1955

Gunsmoke

as Woody Stoner

TV - Released: 9/10/1955

Gunsmoke

as Tom Butler

TV - Released: 9/10/1955