Joe Don Baker

Cast Member

Born: 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.

Joe Don Baker

Biography

Filmography

Bonanza

Ironside

Mission: Impossible

The F.B.I.

Screen Two

The Big Valley

Gunsmoke

The High Chaparral

Cape Fear

The Mod Squad

Felony Squad

Judd, for the Defense

Lancer

GoldenEye

Honey West

The Outsider

Tomorrow Never Dies

Mars Attacks!

The Living Daylights

Cool Hand Luke

Mud

The Dukes of Hazzard

Congo

Joe Dirt

Doc Elliot

Eischied

Edge of Darkness

Reality Bites

The Natural

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Fletch

Walking Tall

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

George Wallace

To Kill a Cop

Charley Varrick

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Panther

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Strange Wilderness

The Grass Harp

Criminal Law

Joysticks

Citizen Cohn

The Underneath

George Wallace

The Valachi Papers

Junior Bonner

The Outfit

Wild Rovers

The Killing Time

Final Justice

Wacko

Leonard Part 6

Power

Poodle Springs

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

Ring of Steel

The Pack

Golden Needles

To Kill a Cop

Mitchell

Framed

Felony

Complex of Fear

Adam at Six A.M.

Getting Even

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

The Children

The Shadow of Chikara

The Commission

Speedtrap

Checkered Flag or Crash

That Certain Summer

Vegas, City of Dreams