Joe Don Baker

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Joe Don Baker

Acting February 12, 1936

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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 Bufo…

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Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks!

6.4 1996 Movie
GoldenEye

GoldenEye

6.9 1995 Movie
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

7.3 1991 Movie
Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies

6.4 1997 Movie
Mud

Mud

7.1 2013 Movie
The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights

6.6 1987 Movie
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

7.7 1967 Movie
The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

5.6 2005 Movie
Bonanza

Bonanza

7.5 1959 TV Show
Congo

Congo

5.6 1995 Movie
Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt

5.7 2001 Movie
Reality Bites

Reality Bites

6.5 1994 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2013
    Mud

    Movie King

  2. 2008
    Strange Wilderness

    Movie Bill Calhoun

  3. 2007
    The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

    Movie Self

  4. 2005
    The Dukes of Hazzard

    Movie Governor Jim Applewhite

  5. 2004
    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  6. 2003
    The Commission

    Movie Rep. Hale Boggs

  7. 2001
    Joe Dirt

    Movie Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

  8. 2001
    Vegas, City of Dreams

    Movie Dylan Garrett

  9. 2000
    Inside 'The Living Daylights'

    Movie Self

  10. 2000
    Inside The Living Daylights

    Movie Self

  11. 1999
    Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

    TV show Buck Duke

  12. 1998
    Poodle Springs

    Movie P.J. Parker

  13. 1997
    Tomorrow Never Dies

    Movie Wade

  14. 1997
    George Wallace

    Movie Big Jim Folsom

  15. 1997
    George Wallace

    TV show Big Jim Folsom

  16. 1997
    To Dance with Olivia

    Movie Horace

More credits
  1. 1996
    Mars Attacks!

    Movie Glenn Norris

  2. 1996
    The Grass Harp

    Movie Sheriff Junius Candle

  3. 1996
    The Siege at Ruby Ridge

    TV show Gerry Spence

  4. 1996
    The Siege at Ruby Ridge

    Movie Gerry Spence

  5. 1996
    Felony

    Movie Donovan

  6. 1995
    GoldenEye

    Movie Jack Wade

  7. 1995
    Congo

    Movie R.B. Travis

  8. 1995
    Panther

    Movie Brimmer

  9. 1995
    The Underneath

    Movie Clay Hinkle

  10. 1994
    Ring of Steel

    Movie Man in Black

  11. 1994
    Reality Bites

    Movie Tom Pierce

  12. 1993
    Complex of Fear

    Movie Det. Frank Farrel

  13. 1992
    The Distinguished Gentleman

    Movie Olaf Andersen

  14. 1992
    Citizen Cohn

    Movie Sen. Joseph McCarthy

  15. 1991
    Cape Fear

    Movie Claude Kersek

  16. 1990
    The Children

    Movie Cliffe Wheater

  17. 1989
    Criminal Law

    Movie Detective Mesel

  18. 1989
    Defrosting the Fridge

    Movie Hunter McCall

  19. 1987
    Leonard Part 6

    Movie Snyderburn

  20. 1987
    The Killing Time

    Movie Carl Cunningham

  21. 1987
    The Living Daylights

    Movie Brad Whitaker

  22. 1987
    The Abduction of Kari Swenson

    Movie Sheriff Onstad

  23. 1986
    Getting Even

    Movie King R. Kenderson

  24. 1985
    Edge of Darkness

    TV show Darius Jedburgh