Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born February 12, 1936 · 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.
Films (61)
Mud
2013
Strange Wilderness
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
The Commission
2003
Joe Dirt
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
Poodle Springs
1998
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
George Wallace
1997
To Dance with Olivia
1997
Mars Attacks!
1996
The Grass Harp
1996
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
GoldenEye
1995
Congo
1995
Panther
1995
The Underneath
1995
Felony
1994
Ring of Steel
1994
Reality Bites
1994
Complex of Fear
1993
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Citizen Cohn
1992
Cape Fear
1991
The Children
1990
Criminal Law
1989
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
Leonard Part 6
1987
The Killing Time
1987
The Living Daylights
1987
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Getting Even
1986
Fletch
1985
Final Justice
1984
The Natural
1984
Joysticks
1983
Wacko
1982
To Kill a Cop
1978
The Pack
1977
Speedtrap
1977
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
Mitchell
1975
Framed
1975
Golden Needles
1974
The Outfit
1973
Charley Varrick
1973
Walking Tall
1973
That Certain Summer
1972
Junior Bonner
1972
The Valachi Papers
1972
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
Wild Rovers
1971
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
Cool Hand Luke
1967