Joe Don Baker
Born February 12, 1936 (Age: 90)
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Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
Mud
2013
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as King
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Age: 77
Strange Wilderness
2008
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as Bill Calhoun
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Age: 71
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
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as Self
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Age: 70
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
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as Governor Jim Applewhite
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Age: 69
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 68
Joe Dirt
2001
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as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
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Age: 65
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 64
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
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as Self
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Age: 64
Poodle Springs
1998
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as P.J. Parker
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Age: 62
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
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as Wade
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Age: 61
George Wallace
1997
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as Big Jim Folsom
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Age: 61
To Dance with Olivia
1997
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as Horace
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Age: 61
Mars Attacks!
1996
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as Glenn Norris
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Age: 60
The Grass Harp
1996
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as Sheriff Junius Candle
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Age: 60
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
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as Gerry Spence
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Age: 60
GoldenEye
1995
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as Jack Wade
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Age: 59
Congo
1995
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as R.B. Travis
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Age: 59
Panther
1995
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as Brimmer
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Age: 59
Reality Bites
1994
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as Tom Pierce
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Age: 58
Complex of Fear
1993
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as Det. Frank Farrel
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Age: 56
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
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as Olaf Andersen
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Age: 56
Citizen Cohn
1992
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as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
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Age: 56
Cape Fear
1991
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as Claude Kersek
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Age: 55
The Children
1990
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as Cliffe Wheater
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Age: 54
Criminal Law
1989
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as Detective Mesel
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Age: 53
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
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as Hunter McCall
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Age: 53
Leonard Part 6
1987
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as Snyderburn
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Age: 51
The Killing Time
1987
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as Carl Cunningham
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Age: 51
The Living Daylights
1987
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as Brad Whitaker
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Age: 51
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
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as Sheriff Onstad
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Age: 51
Fletch
1985
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as Chief Jerry Karlin
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Age: 49
The Natural
1984
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as The Whammer
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Age: 48
Joysticks
1983
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as Joseph Rutter
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Age: 47
To Kill a Cop
1978
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as Chief Earl M. Eischied
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Age: 42
Golden Needles
1974
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as Dan Mason
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Age: 38
The Outfit
1973
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as Jack Cody
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Age: 37
Charley Varrick
1973
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as Molly
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Age: 37
Walking Tall
1973
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as Buford Pusser
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Age: 37
That Certain Summer
1972
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as Phil Bonner
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Age: 36
The Valachi Papers
1972
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as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
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Age: 35
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
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as Slater
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Age: 33