Joe Don Baker
Known for acting · Born 12 February 1936 · Died 7 May 2025 · aged 89 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
84 credits
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.
Known for
The Living Daylights
1987
GoldenEye
1995
Cape Fear
1991
Charley Varrick
1973
Congo
1995
Fletch
1985
Walking Tall
1973
The Outfit
1973
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Joysticks
1983
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Mud
2013
Acting (84)
2013MudKingFilm
2008Strange WildernessBill CalhounFilm
2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasSelfFilm
2005The Dukes of HazzardGovernor Jim ApplewhiteFilm
2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeSelf (archive footage)Film
2003The CommissionRep. Hale BoggsFilm
2001Joe DirtDon, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)Film
2001Vegas, City of DreamsDylan GarrettFilm
2000Inside 'The Living Daylights'SelfFilm
2000Inside The Living DaylightsSelfFilm
1999Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeBuck Duke · 4 episodesSeries
1998Poodle SpringsP.J. ParkerFilm
1997Tomorrow Never DiesWadeFilm
1997George WallaceBig Jim FolsomFilm
1997George WallaceBig Jim Folsom · 2 episodesSeries
1997To Dance with OliviaHoraceFilm
1996Mars Attacks!Glenn NorrisFilm
1996The Grass HarpSheriff Junius CandleFilm
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeGerry SpenceFilm
1996FelonyDonovanFilm
1996The Siege at Ruby RidgeGerry Spence · 2 episodesSeries
1995GoldenEyeJack WadeFilm
1995CongoR.B. TravisFilm
1995The UnderneathClay HinkleFilm
1995PantherBrimmerFilm
1994Reality BitesTom PierceFilm
1994Ring of SteelMan in BlackFilm
1993Complex of FearDet. Frank FarrelFilm
1992The Distinguished GentlemanOlaf AndersenFilm
1992Citizen CohnSen. Joseph McCarthyFilm
1991Cape FearClaude KersekFilm
1990The ChildrenCliffe WheaterFilm
1989Criminal LawDetective MeselFilm
1989Defrosting the FridgeHunter McCallFilm
1987The Living DaylightsBrad WhitakerFilm
1987Leonard Part 6SnyderburnFilm
1987The Killing TimeCarl CunninghamFilm
1987The Abduction of Kari SwensonSheriff OnstadFilm
1986Getting EvenKing R. KendersonFilm
1985FletchChief Jerry KarlinFilm
1985Edge of DarknessDarius Jedburgh · 6 episodesSeries
1985Screen TwoHunter McCallSeries
1984The NaturalThe WhammerFilm
1984Final JusticeDeputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo IIIFilm
1983JoysticksJoseph RutterFilm
1982WackoDick HarbingerFilm
1980PowerTommy Vanda · 2 episodesSeries
1979EischiedEarl Eischied · 13 episodesSeries
1978To Kill a CopChief Earl Eischied · 2 episodesSeries
1978To Kill a CopChief Earl M. EischiedFilm
1977The PackJerryFilm
1977The Shadow of ChikaraWishbone CutterFilm
1977Checkered Flag or CrashWalkaway MaddenFilm
1977SpeedtrapPete NovickFilm
1975MitchellMitchellFilm
1975FramedRon LewisFilm
1974Golden NeedlesDan MasonFilm
1973Charley VarrickMollyFilm
1973Walking TallBuford PusserFilm
1973The OutfitJack CodyFilm
1973Doc ElliotAaron HickeySeries
1972The Valachi PapersIrish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)Film
1972Junior BonnerCurly BonnerFilm
1972The Streets of San FranciscoLeonard Collier CordSeries
1972That Certain SummerPhil BonnerFilm
1971Wild RoversPaul BuckmanFilm
1971Welcome Home, Soldier BoysDannyFilm
1971Mongo's Back in TownMongo NashFilm
1970Adam at Six A.M.Harvey GavinFilm
1969Guns of the Magnificent SevenSlaterFilm
1968The Mod SquadWillie TurnerSeries
1968LancerDay Pardee, Santee, Clovis HornerSeries
1968The OutsiderBilly Joe CoreySeries
1967Cool Hand LukeFixerFilm
1967IronsideEric BlairSeries
1967The High ChaparralYumaSeries
1967Judd, for the DefenseMerl VarneySeries
1966Mission: ImpossibleFrank KearneySeries
1966Felony SquadShep TaubsSeries
1965The Big ValleyTom LightfootSeries
1965The F.B.I.Alex DrakeSeries
1965Honey WestRocky HansenSeries
1959BonanzaLuke HarperSeries
1955GunsmokeWoody Stoner, Tom ButlerSeries