Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born: 1936-02-12 in 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.
Known For
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
Mud
King
The Living Daylights
Brad Whitaker
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo
R.B. Travis
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
The Natural
The Whammer
Bonanza
Luke Harper
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney
Charley Varrick
Molly
Strange Wilderness
Bill Calhoun
Walking Tall
Buford Pusser
Criminal Law
Detective Mesel
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Slater
The Valachi Papers
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Junior Bonner
Curly Bonner
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner
Gunsmoke
Tom Butler
The Outfit
Jack Cody
The Streets of San Francisco
Leonard Collier Cord
The Underneath
Clay Hinkle
Joysticks
Joseph Rutter
Leonard Part 6
Snyderburn
Ironside
Eric Blair
The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh
Wild Rovers
Paul Buckman
Panther
Brimmer
Mitchell
Mitchell
Final Justice
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
The Killing Time
Carl Cunningham
Wacko
Dick Harbinger
The Grass Harp
Sheriff Junius Candle