Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA · Died 2025-05-07
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
Mud
King
Strange Wilderness
Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
The Commission
Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Buck Duke
Poodle Springs
P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
Horace
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
Felony
Donovan
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
Congo
R.B. Travis
Panther
Brimmer
The Underneath
Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel
Man in Black
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear
Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
Sen. Joseph McCarthy