Joe Don Baker
Acting
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.
Born: February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Filmography (61)
Mud
2013
Actor: King
Strange Wilderness
2008
Actor: Bill Calhoun
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Actor: Governor Jim Apple…
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Actor: Self (archive foot…
Joe Dirt
2001
Actor: Don, Brandy's Dad …
Poodle Springs
1998
Actor: P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Actor: Wade
George Wallace
1997
Actor: Big Jim Folsom
Mars Attacks!
1996
Actor: Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
1996
Actor: Sheriff Junius Can…
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Actor: Gerry Spence
GoldenEye
1995
Actor: Jack Wade
Congo
1995
Actor: R.B. Travis
Panther
1995
Actor: Brimmer
The Underneath
1995
Actor: Clay Hinkle
Felony
1994
Actor: Donovan
Ring of Steel
1994
Actor: Man in Black
Reality Bites
1994
Actor: Tom Pierce
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Actor: Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
1992
Actor: Sen. Joseph McCart…
Cape Fear
1991
Actor: Claude Kersek
Criminal Law
1989
Actor: Detective Mesel
Leonard Part 6
1987
Actor: Snyderburn
The Killing Time
1987
Actor: Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
1987
Actor: Brad Whitaker
Getting Even
1986
Actor: King R. Kenderson
TV
Edge of Darkness
1985
Actor: Darius Jedburgh
Fletch
1985
Actor: Chief Jerry Karlin
Final Justice
1984
Actor: Geronimo
The Natural
1984
Actor: The Whammer
Joysticks
1983
Actor: Joseph Rutter
Wacko
1982
Actor: Dick Harbinger
The Pack
1977
Actor: Jerry
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
Actor: Wishbone Cutter
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
Actor: Walkaway Madden
Mitchell
1975
Actor: Mitchell
Framed
1975
Actor: Ron Lewis
Golden Needles
1974
Actor: Dan Mason
The Outfit
1973
Actor: Jack Cody
Charley Varrick
1973
Actor: Molly
Walking Tall
1973
Actor: Buford Pusser
That Certain Summer
1972
Actor: Phil Bonner
Junior Bonner
1972
Actor: Curly Bonner
The Valachi Papers
1972
Actor: Irish member of Va…
Wild Rovers
1971
Actor: Paul Buckman
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Actor: Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
Actor: Slater
TV
The Mod Squad
1968
Actor
TV
Lancer
1968
Actor
TV
The Outsider
1968
Actor: Billy Joe Corey
Cool Hand Luke
1967
Actor: Fixer
TV
The High Chaparral
1967
Actor: Yuma
TV
Judd for the Defense
1967
Actor
TV
Ironside
1967
Actor
TV
Mission: Impossible
1966
Actor: Frank Kearney
TV
Felony Squad
1966
Actor
TV
The F.B.I.
1965
Actor: Alex Drake
TV
Honey West
1965
Actor: Rocky Hansen
TV
The Big Valley
1965
Actor: Tom Lightfoot
TV
Bonanza
1959
Actor: Luke Harper
TV
Gunsmoke
1955
Actor: Woody StonerActor: Tom Butler