8.0
8.0
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self
Joe Don Baker
Acting
Nationality:United States
Education:University of North Texas, Actors Studio
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Joe Don Baker (February 12, 1936 – May 7, 2025) was an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles in the Westerns Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973). Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Baker found success playing both leading and supporting roles, including a mafia hitman in Charley Varrick (1973), a brute force detective in Mitchell (1975), a legendary baseball player in The Natural (1984), a police chief in the Chevy Chase comedy Fletch (1985), and a morally dubious private investigator in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was in three James Bond films, as both a villain and an ally, portraying Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987) with Timothy Dalton, and CIA agent Jack Wade in GoldenEye (1995) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) with Pierce Brosnan. For his portrayal of offbeat CIA agent Darius Jedburgh in the BBC television serial Edge of Darkness (1985), he was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He was also nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Alabama governor Big Jim Folsom in the made-for-television film George Wallace (1997).
Filmography (57 movies)
7.7
7.7
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Fixer
7.3
7.3
Charley Varrick
1973
as Molly
7.2
7.2
Cape Fear
1991
as Claude Kersek
7.1
7.1
Mud
2013
as King
6.9
6.9
The Natural
1984
as The Whammer
6.9
6.9
GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade
6.8
6.8
The Pack
1977
as Jerry
6.8
6.8
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
6.8
6.8
The Outfit
1973
as Cody
6.7
6.7
Fletch
1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin
6.6
6.6
Walking Tall
1973
as Buford Pusser
6.6
6.6
Framed
1975
as Ron Lewis
6.6
6.6
Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce
6.5
6.5
The Living Daylights
1987
as Brad Whitaker
6.5
6.5
That Certain Summer
1972
as Phil Bonner
6.4
6.4
Complex of Fear
1993
as Det. Frank Farrel
6.4
6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade
6.2
6.2
Wild Rovers
1971
as Paul Buckman
6.2
6.2
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
as Self
6.2
6.2
Panther
1995
as Brimmer
6.1
6.1
Junior Bonner
1972
as Curly Bonner
6.0
6.0
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Olaf Andersen
6.0
6.0
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
5.8
5.8
The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
5.6
5.6
The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle
5.6
5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite
5.6
5.6
Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis
5.6
5.6
Criminal Law
1989
as Detective Mesel
5.5
5.5
Speedtrap
1977
as Pete Novick
5.5
5.5
Abduction
1987
as Sheriff Onstad
5.4
5.4
Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker
5.3
5.3
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
as Slater
5.1
5.1
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
5.0
5.0
Wacko
1982
as Dick Harbinger
4.9
4.9
The Killing Time
1987
as Carl Cunningham
4.9
4.9
Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun
4.8
4.8
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Mongo Nash
4.8
4.8
Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black
4.7
4.7
Golden Needles
1974
as Dan Mason
4.6
4.6
Joysticks
1983
as Joseph Rutter
4.5
4.5
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Harvey Gavin
4.4
4.4
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
as Wishbone Cutter
4.2
4.2
Felony
1994
as Donovan
4.0
4.0
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
as Walkaway Madden
3.8
3.8
The Children
1990
as Cliffe Wheater
3.2
3.2
Mitchell
1975
as Mitchell
3.0
3.0
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
as Danny
2.8
2.8
Leonard Part 6
1987
as Snyderburn
2.5
2.5
Final Justice
1984
as Geronimo
2.4
2.4
Getting Even
1986
as King R. Kenderson
2.0
2.0
Power
1980
as Tommy Vanda
2.0
2.0
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett
1.0
1.0
The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs
1.0
1.0
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Hunter McCall
To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
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