Cast & creator
Joe Don Baker
Best known for Bonanza, Ironside, Mission: Impossible
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.
Also known as: جو دان بیکر, Джо Дон Бейкер
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film credits
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television credits
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1955–2013 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (87)
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Bonanza
Luke Harper
1959
Ironside
Eric Blair
1967
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney
1966
Screen Two
Hunter McCall
1985
The F.B.I.
Alex Drake
1965
The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot
1965
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner
1955Gunsmoke
Tom Butler
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
Leonard Collier Cord
1972
The High Chaparral
Yuma
1967
Judd, for the Defense
Merl Varney
1967
The Mod Squad
Willie Turner
1968
Felony Squad
Shep Taubs
1966
Lancer
Day Pardee
1968Lancer
Santee
1968Lancer
Clovis Horner
1968
Honey West
Rocky Hansen
1965
The Living Daylights
Brad Whitaker
1987
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
1996
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
1997
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
1995
The Outsider
Billy Joe Corey
1968
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
1991
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
2005
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
1967
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh
1985
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
1994
The Natural
The Whammer
1984
Congo
R.B. Travis
1995
Mud
King
2013
Doc Elliot
Aaron Hickey
1973
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Buck Duke
1999
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
1996
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl Eischied
1978
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
1997
Eischied
Earl Eischied
1979
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Slater
1969
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
1985
Power
Tommy Vanda
1980
Walking Tall
Buford Pusser
1973
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
1992
Strange Wilderness
Bill Calhoun
2008
The Outfit
Jack Cody
1973
The Underneath
Clay Hinkle
1995
Criminal Law
Detective Mesel
1989
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
Charley Varrick
Molly
1973
The Valachi Papers
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1972
Panther
Brimmer
1995
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
1996
Poodle Springs
P.J. Parker
1998
Joysticks
Joseph Rutter
1983
The Grass Harp
Sheriff Junius Candle
1996
Junior Bonner
Curly Bonner
1972
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
2004
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl M. Eischied
1978
Checkered Flag or Crash
Walkaway Madden
1977
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Sheriff Onstad
1987
Wild Rovers
Paul Buckman
1971
Getting Even
King R. Kenderson
1986
Citizen Cohn
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1992
The Pack
Jerry
1977
Speedtrap
Pete Novick
1977
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
1997
To Dance with Olivia
Horace
1997
Leonard Part 6
Snyderburn
1987
Inside The Living Daylights
Self
2000
The Killing Time
Carl Cunningham
1987
Golden Needles
Dan Mason
1974
Adam at Six A.M.
Harvey Gavin
1970
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dylan Garrett
2001
Wacko
Dick Harbinger
1982
The Shadow of Chikara
Wishbone Cutter
1977
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Self
2000
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Danny
1971
Mongo's Back in Town
Mongo Nash
1971
That Certain Summer
Phil Bonner
1972
Framed
Ron Lewis
1975
Complex of Fear
Det. Frank Farrel
1993
Ring of Steel
Man in Black
1994
Mitchell
Mitchell
1975
Final Justice
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
1984
Felony
Donovan
1996
The Commission
Rep. Hale Boggs
2003
The Children
Cliffe Wheater
1990
Defrosting the Fridge
Hunter McCall
1989