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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-02-12 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Joe Don Baker

Biography:

Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is 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.

Known For

Acting

2013

Mud as King

2008

Strange Wilderness as Bill Calhoun

2007

2005

The Dukes of Hazzard as Governor Jim Applewhite

2004

2003

The Commission as Rep. Hale Boggs

2002

Best Ever Bond as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

Joe Dirt as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams as Dylan Garrett

2000

1999

1998

Poodle Springs as P.J. Parker

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies as Jack Wade
George Wallace as Big Jim Folsom

1996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Gerry Spence
Mars Attacks! as Glenn Norris

1995

GoldenEye as Jack Wade
Congo as R.B. Travis
The Grass Harp as Sheriff Junius Candle
Panther as Brimmer
The Underneath as Clay Hinkle

1994

Reality Bites as Tom Pierce
Ring of Steel as Man in Black
Felony as Donovan

1993

Complex of Fear as Det. Frank Farrel

1992

Citizen Cohn as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

1991

Cape Fear as Claude Kersek

1990

The Children as Cliffe Wheater

1989

Criminal Law as Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge as Hunter McCall

1987

The Living Daylights as Brad Whitaker
Leonard Part 6 as Snyderburn
The Killing Time as Carl Cunningham
Abduction as Sheriff Onstad

1986

Getting Even as King R. Kenderson

1985

Fletch as Chief Jerry Karlin
Edge of Darkness as Darius Jedburgh

1984

The Natural as The Whammer
Final Justice as Geronimo

1983

Joysticks as Joseph Rutter

1982

Wacko as Dick Harbinger

1980

Power as Tommy Vanda

1979

Eischied as Earl Eischied

1978

To Kill a Cop as Chief Earl M. Eischied
To Kill a Cop as Chief Earl Eischied

1977

The Shadow of Chikara as Wishbone Cutter
Speedtrap as Pete Novick
The Pack as Jerry
Checkered Flag or Crash as Walkaway Madden

1975

Mitchell as Mitchell
Framed as Ron Lewis

1974

Golden Needles as Dan Mason

1973

Walking Tall as Buford Pusser
The Outfit as Cody
Doc Elliot as Aaron Hickey

1972

Junior Bonner as Curly Bonner
That Certain Summer as Phil Bonner
The Valachi Papers as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

1971

Wild Rovers as Paul Buckman
Mongo's Back in Town as Mongo Nash

1970

Adam at Six A.M. as Harvey Gavin

1969

1968

The Outsider as Billy Joe Corey

1967

1966

1965

The F.B.I. as Alex Drake
The Big Valley as Tom Lightfoot
Honey West as Rocky Hansen

1959

Bonanza as Luke Harper

1955

Gunsmoke as Woody Stoner
Gunsmoke as Tom Butler