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Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker is 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.

English

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997
as Jack Wade

Cape Fear

1991
as Claude Kersek

Mars Attacks!

1996
as Richie's Dad

GoldenEye

1995
as Jack Wade

The Living Daylights

1987
as Brad Whitaker

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite

The Shadow of Chikara

1977
as Wishbone Cutter

Final Justice

1985
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

To Dance with Olivia

1997
as Horace Henley

Walking Tall

1973
as Buford Pusser

Ring of Steel

1994
as Man in black

The Killing Time

1987
as Carl Cunningham

Congo

1995
as R.B. Travis

Wacko

1982
as Dick Harbinger

The Children

1990
as Cliffe Wheater

That Certain Summer

1972
as Phil Bonner

Panther

1995
as Brimmer

Felony

1994
as Donovan

Leonard Part 6

1987
as Nick Snyderburn

The Pack

1977
as Jerry

Wild Rovers

1971
as Paul Buckman

Getting Even

1986
as King R. Kenderson

Adam at Six A.M.

1970
as Harvey Gavin

Citizen Cohn

1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Reality Bites

1994
as Tom Pierce

Edge of Darkness

1985
as Darius Jedburgh

The Natural

1984
as The Whammer

Mongo's Back in Town

1971
as Mongo Nash

The Underneath

1995
as Clay Hinkle

Strange Wilderness

2008
as Bill Calhoun

Framed

1975
as Ron Lewis

The Grass Harp

1995
as Sheriff Junius Candle

Golden Needles

1974
as Dan Mason

Mitchell

1975
as Mitchell

Joe Dirt

2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad

The Outfit

1973
as Cody

Eischied

1979
as Chief Earl Eischied

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001
as Dylan Garrett

Speedtrap

1977
as Pete Novick

Complex of Fear

1993
as Det. Frank Farrel

Cool Hand Luke

1967
as Fixer

Junior Bonner

1972
as Curly Bonner

Mud

2013
as King

Poodle Springs

1998
as P.J. Parker

Joysticks

1983
as Joseph Rutter

Criminal Law

1988
as Det. Mesel

George Wallace

1997
as Big Jim Folsom

Fletch

1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin

Checkered Flag or Crash

1977
as Walkaway Madden

Guest Star

Episode Mission: Impossible
The Miracle
1971
Episode Judd for the Defense
Shadow of a Killer
1967
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Final Justice
1999
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mitchell
1993
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Fifteen, Forever
1989
Episode Honey West
Rockabye the Hard Way
1965
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Ladybug, Ladybug
1989
Episode The Felony Squad
My Mommy Got Lost
1967
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Beyond Vengeance
1973
Episode Gunsmoke
Prime of Life
1966
Episode In the Heat of the Night
The Pig Woman of Sparta
1989
Episode Ironside
Camera... Action... Murder!
1972
Episode Gunsmoke
Reprisal
1969
Episode In the Heat of the Night
Missing
1989
Episode Gunsmoke
The Long Night
1969
Episode Switch
Blue Crusaders Reunion
1978
Episode Lancer
The High Riders
1968
Episode Lancer
Shadow of a Dead Man
1970
Episode Lancer
Cut the Wolf Loose
1969
Episode The Iron Horse
Cougar Man
1966