Joe Don Baker
Acting
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.
Known For · 40 titles
Bonanza
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
Screen Two
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
The High Chaparral
The Big Valley
Honey West
The Mod Squad
Felony Squad
Lancer
Cape Fear
Judd, for the Defense
GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Outsider
Mars Attacks!
The Living Daylights
Cool Hand Luke
The Dukes of Hazzard
Mud
Congo
Edge of Darkness
Joe Dirt
Doc Elliot
Reality Bites
The Natural
The Distinguished Gentleman
Eischied
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Walking Tall
Fletch
Charley Varrick
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Strange Wilderness
Power
Panther
The Valachi Papers
George Wallace