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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

Mud

2013
as King

Strange Wilderness

2008
as Bill Calhoun

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001
as Dylan Garrett

Joe Dirt

2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

2000
as Joe Don Baker

Poodle Springs

1998
as P.J. Parker

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997
as Jack Wade

George Wallace

1997
as Big Jim Folsom

To Dance with Olivia

1997
as Horace Henley

Mars Attacks!

1996
as Richie's Dad

Congo

1995
as R.B. Travis

GoldenEye

1995
as Jack Wade

The Grass Harp

1995
as Sheriff Junius Candle

The Underneath

1995
as Clay Hinkle

Panther

1995
as Brimmer

Ring of Steel

1994
as Man in black

Reality Bites

1994
as Tom Pierce

Felony

1994
as Donovan

Complex of Fear

1993
as Det. Frank Farrel

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992
as Olaf Andersen

Citizen Cohn

1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Cape Fear

1991
as Claude Kersek

The Children

1990
as Cliffe Wheater

Criminal Law

1988
as Det. Mesel

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

1987
as Sheriff Onstad

The Killing Time

1987
as Carl Cunningham

The Living Daylights

1987
as Brad Whitaker

Leonard Part 6

1987
as Nick Snyderburn

Getting Even

1986
as King R. Kenderson

Final Justice

1985
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

Fletch

1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin

Edge of Darkness

1985
as Darius Jedburgh

The Natural

1984
as The Whammer

Joysticks

1983
as Joseph Rutter

Wacko

1982
as Dick Harbinger

Eischied

1979
as Chief Earl Eischied

The Pack

1977
as Jerry

Speedtrap

1977
as Pete Novick

Checkered Flag or Crash

1977
as Walkaway Madden

The Shadow of Chikara

1977
as Wishbone Cutter

Mitchell

1975
as Mitchell

Framed

1975
as Ron Lewis

Golden Needles

1974
as Dan Mason

Walking Tall

1973
as Buford Pusser

Charley Varrick

1973
as Molly

The Outfit

1973
as Cody

Junior Bonner

1972
as Curly Bonner

That Certain Summer

1972
as Phil Bonner

Mongo's Back in Town

1971
as Mongo Nash

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

1971
as Danny

Wild Rovers

1971
as Paul Buckman

Adam at Six A.M.

1970
as Harvey Gavin

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969
as Slater

Cool Hand Luke

1967
as Fixer

Guest Star

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