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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.

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Filmography

Adam at Six A.M.

1970
as Harvey Gavin

Cape Fear

1991
as Claude Kersek

Charley Varrick

1973
as Molly

Checkered Flag or Crash

1977
as Walkaway Madden

Citizen Cohn

1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Complex of Fear

1993
as Det. Frank Farrel

Congo

1995
as R.B. Travis

Cool Hand Luke

1967
as Fixer

Criminal Law

1988
as Det. Mesel

Edge of Darkness

1985
as Darius Jedburgh

Eischied

1979
as Chief Earl Eischied

Felony

1994
as Donovan

Final Justice

1985
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

Fletch

1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin

Framed

1975
as Ron Lewis

George Wallace

1997
as Big Jim Folsom

Getting Even

1986
as King R. Kenderson

Golden Needles

1974
as Dan Mason

GoldenEye

1995
as Jack Wade

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969
as Slater

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

2000
as Joe Don Baker

Joe Dirt

2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad

Joysticks

1983
as Joseph Rutter

Junior Bonner

1972
as Curly Bonner

Leonard Part 6

1987
as Nick Snyderburn

Mars Attacks!

1996
as Richie's Dad

Mitchell

1975
as Mitchell

Mongo's Back in Town

1971
as Mongo Nash

Mud

2013
as King

Panther

1995
as Brimmer

Poodle Springs

1998
as P.J. Parker

Reality Bites

1994
as Tom Pierce

Ring of Steel

1994
as Man in black

Speedtrap

1977
as Pete Novick

Strange Wilderness

2008
as Bill Calhoun

That Certain Summer

1972
as Phil Bonner

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

1987
as Sheriff Onstad

The Children

1990
as Cliffe Wheater

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992
as Olaf Andersen

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite

The Grass Harp

1995
as Sheriff Junius Candle

The Killing Time

1987
as Carl Cunningham

The Living Daylights

1987
as Brad Whitaker

The Natural

1984
as The Whammer

The Outfit

1973
as Cody

The Pack

1977
as Jerry

The Shadow of Chikara

1977
as Wishbone Cutter

The Underneath

1995
as Clay Hinkle

To Dance with Olivia

1997
as Horace Henley

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997
as Jack Wade

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001
as Dylan Garrett

Wacko

1982
as Dick Harbinger

Walking Tall

1973
as Buford Pusser

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

1971
as Danny

Wild Rovers

1971
as Paul Buckman

Guest Star

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