Feb 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 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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| Movie | 1967 | Cool Hand Luke | Fixer | |
| Movie | 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | |
| Movie | 1991 | Cape Fear | Claude Kersek | |
| Movie | 1987 | The Living Daylights | Brad Whitaker | |
| Movie | 1995 | GoldenEye | Jack Wade | |
| Movie | 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | Wade | |
| Movie | 1998 | Poodle Springs | P.J. Parker | |
| Movie | 1995 | Congo | R.B. Travis | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Distinguished Gentleman | Olaf Andersen | |
| Movie | 1994 | Reality Bites | Tom Pierce | |
| Movie | 1972 | Junior Bonner | Curly Bonner | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Dukes of Hazzard | Governor Jim Applewhite | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Natural | The Whammer | |
| Movie | 1987 | Leonard Part 6 | Snyderburn | |
| Movie | 1987 | The Killing Time | Carl Cunningham | |
| Movie | 1973 | Walking Tall | Buford Pusser | |
| Movie | 1975 | Mitchell | Mitchell | |
| Movie | 1985 | Fletch | Chief Jerry Karlin | |
| Movie | 1969 | Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Slater | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Outfit | Cody | |
| Movie | 1983 | Joysticks | Joseph Rutter | |
| Movie | 1973 | Charley Varrick | Molly | |
| Movie | 2008 | Strange Wilderness | Bill Calhoun | |
| Movie | 1989 | Criminal Law | Detective Mesel | |
| Movie | 1971 | Wild Rovers | Paul Buckman | |
| Movie | 1997 | George Wallace | Big Jim Folsom | |
| Movie | 1975 | Framed | Ron Lewis | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Shadow of Chikara | Wishbone Cutter | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Grass Harp | Sheriff Junius Candle | |
| Movie | 1994 | Ring of Steel | Man in Black | |
| Movie | 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Sen. Joseph McCarthy | |
| Movie | 1977 | Speedtrap | Pete Novick | |
| Movie | 1982 | Wacko | Dick Harbinger | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Pack | Jerry | |
| Movie | 1986 | Getting Even | King R. Kenderson | |
| Movie | 1970 | Adam at Six A.M. | Harvey Gavin | |
| Movie | 2013 | Mud | King | |
| Movie | 1971 | Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Danny | |
| Movie | 1972 | That Certain Summer | Phil Bonner | |
| Movie | 1977 | Checkered Flag or Crash | Walkaway Madden | |
| Movie | 1974 | Golden Needles | Dan Mason | |
| Movie | 1971 | Mongo's Back in Town | Mongo Nash | |
| Movie | 1994 | Felony | Donovan | |
| Movie | 1989 | Defrosting the Fridge | Hunter McCall | |
| Movie | 1987 | Abduction | Sheriff Onstad | |
| Movie | 2001 | Joe Dirt | Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1993 | Complex of Fear | Det. Frank Farrel | |
| Movie | 1995 | Panther | Brimmer | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Siege at Ruby Ridge | Gerry Spence | |
| Movie | 1997 | To Dance with Olivia | Horace | |
| Movie | 2002 | Best Ever Bond | Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1980 | Power | Tommy Vanda | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Underneath | Clay Hinkle | |
| Movie | 1996 | Mars Attacks! | Glenn Norris | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Children | Cliffe Wheater | |
| Movie | 2000 | Inside The Living Daylights | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Vegas, City of Dreams | Dylan Garrett | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Valachi Papers | Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Inside 'The Living Daylights' | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Commission | Rep. Hale Boggs | |
| Movie | 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1978 | To Kill a Cop | Chief Earl M. Eischied | |
| Movie | 1984 | Final Justice | Geronimo | |
| TV Show | 1965 | The F.B.I. | Alex Drake | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Mod Squad | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Woody Stoner | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Mission: Impossible | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | Ironside | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1966 | Felony Squad | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | The High Chaparral | Yuma | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Lancer | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1965 | The Big Valley | Tom Lightfoot | 1 |
| TV Show | 1967 | Judd for the Defense | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1985 | Edge of Darkness | Darius Jedburgh | 6 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Honey West | Rocky Hansen | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Eischied | Earl Eischied | 13 |
| TV Show | 1978 | To Kill a Cop | Chief Earl Eischied | 2 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Tom Butler | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke | Buck Duke | 4 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Luke Harper | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Outsider | Billy Joe Corey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1973 | Doc Elliot | Aaron Hickey | 1 |
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