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
Ironside
Eric Blair
Bonanza
Luke Harper
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney
Screen Two
Hunter McCall
The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner
Gunsmoke
Tom Butler
The High Chaparral
Yuma
The F.B.I.
Alex Drake
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
Felony Squad
Shep Taubs
The Streets of San Francisco
Leonard Collier Cord
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
The Living Daylights
Brad Whitaker
Lancer
Day Pardee
Lancer
Santee
Lancer
Clovis Horner
The Mod Squad
Willie Turner
Honey West
Rocky Hansen
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
Judd, for the Defense
Merl Varney
The Natural
The Whammer
Joysticks
Joseph Rutter
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo
R.B. Travis
Mud
King
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
The Outsider
Billy Joe Corey
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh
The Outfit
Jack Cody
Panther
Brimmer
Criminal Law
Detective Mesel
Walking Tall
Buford Pusser
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Slater