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Joe Don Baker
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.
24
Films
6.4
Avg Score
Filmography (24)
Mud
74
as King
Strange Wilderness
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as Bill Calhoun
The Dukes of Hazzard
52
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Joe Dirt
60
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Poodle Springs
60
as P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
65
as Wade
Mars Attacks!
64
as Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
72
as Jack Wade
Congo
53
as R.B. Travis
Panther
64
as Brimmer
Reality Bites
66
as Tom Pierce
The Distinguished Gentleman
59
as Olaf Andersen
Cape Fear
73
as Claude Kersek
The Living Daylights
67
as Brad Whitaker
Leonard Part 6
22
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time
53
as Carl Cunningham
Fletch
69
as Chief Jerry Karlin
The Natural
74
as The Whammer
Walking Tall
69
as Buford Pusser
Charley Varrick
75
as Molly
The Outfit
70
as Jack Cody
The Valachi Papers
64
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Adam at Six A.M.
56
as Harvey Gavin
Cool Hand Luke
80
as Fixer