Joe Don Baker
Acting
February 12, 1936
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.
Movies
GoldenEye
1995
Joe Dirt
2001
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
The Valachi Papers
1972
The Living Daylights
1987
Mars Attacks!
1996
Mud
2013
Cape Fear
1991
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
The Killing Time
1987
Strange Wilderness
2008
Fletch
1985
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
Congo
1995
The Natural
1984
Cool Hand Luke
1967
The Outfit
1973
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Felony
1994
Walking Tall
1973
TV Shows
Bonanza
1959
Mission: Impossible
1966
Ironside
1967
The Big Valley
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
The High Chaparral
1967
The F.B.I.
1965
Lancer
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Honey West
1965
The Outsider
1968
Judd for the Defense
1967
Edge of Darkness
1985
Eischied
1979
Doc Elliot
1973
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
George Wallace
1997
To Kill a Cop
1978