Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Acting • Born 1936-02-12 • Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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.

Filmography

Bonanza 7.5
Bonanza
1959 • Luke Harper
Ironside 6.9
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible 7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966 • Frank Kearney
The F.B.I. 5.6
The F.B.I.
1965 • Alex Drake
The Big Valley 6.2
The Big Valley
1965 • Tom Lightfoot
The High Chaparral 6.8
The High Chaparral
1967 • Yuma
Gunsmoke 6.7
Gunsmoke
1955 • Woody Stoner
Lancer 5.6
Lancer
1968
Judd, for the Defense 7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Mod Squad 6.0
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad 6.5
Felony Squad
1966
Honey West 7.2
Honey West
1965 • Rocky Hansen
GoldenEye 6.9
GoldenEye
1995 • Jack Wade
The Outsider 6.0
The Outsider
1968 • Billy Joe Corey
Mud 7.1
Mud
2013 • King
Cape Fear 7.3
Cape Fear
1991 • Claude Kersek
Mars Attacks! 6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996 • Glenn Norris
Tomorrow Never Dies 6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 • Wade
The Living Daylights 6.5
The Living Daylights
1987 • Brad Whitaker
Cool Hand Luke 7.7
Cool Hand Luke
1967 • Fixer
The Dukes of Hazzard 5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 • Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo 5.6
Congo
1995 • R.B. Travis
Eischied 7.0
Eischied
1979 • Earl Eischied
Edge of Darkness 8.1
Edge of Darkness
1985 • Darius Jedburgh
Joe Dirt 5.6
Joe Dirt
2001 • Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
The Natural 6.9
The Natural
1984 • The Whammer
Reality Bites 6.6
Reality Bites
1994 • Tom Pierce
Fletch 6.8
Fletch
1985 • Chief Jerry Karlin
Walking Tall 6.6
Walking Tall
1973 • Buford Pusser
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke 5.5
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 • Buck Duke
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