Joe Don Baker
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-02-12
Day of Death
2025-05-07 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Joe Don Baker
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.
Acting
(2013)
Mud
as King
(2008)
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
(2007)
(2005)
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
(2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2001)
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
(2001)
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
(2000)
(2000)
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
(1998)
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
(1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
(1997)
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
(1997)
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
(1996)
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
(1996)
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
(1996)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
(1995)
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
(1995)
Congo
as R.B. Travis
(1995)
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
(1995)
Panther
as Brimmer
(1994)
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
(1994)
Felony
as Donovan
(1994)
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
(1993)
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
(1992)
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
(1992)
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
(1991)
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
(1990)
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
(1989)
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
(1989)
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
(1987)
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
(1987)
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
(1987)
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
(1987)
Abduction
as Sheriff Onstad
(1986)
Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
(1985)
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
(1984)
The Natural
as The Whammer
(1984)
Final Justice
as Geronimo
(1983)
Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
(1982)
Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
(1980)
Power
as Tommy Vanda
(1978)
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
(1977)
The Pack
as Jerry
(1977)
The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter
(1977)
Speedtrap
as Pete Novick
(1977)
Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden
(1975)
Framed
as Ron Lewis
(1975)
Mitchell
as Mitchell
(1974)
Golden Needles
as Dan Mason
(1973)
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
(1973)
Charley Varrick
as Molly
(1973)
The Outfit
as Cody
(1972)
The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
(1972)
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
(1972)
That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner
(1971)
Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman
(1971)
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
as Danny
(1971)
Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash
(1970)
Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin
(1969)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater
(1967)
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer