Joe Don Baker
- Acting
- February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
- May 7, 2025
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
Filmography
- 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
- 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
- Cape Fear · Claude Kersek
- The Children · Cliffe Wheater
- Criminal Law · Detective Mesel
- Defrosting the Fridge · Hunter McCall
- Leonard Part 6 · Snyderburn
- The Killing Time · Carl Cunningham
- The Living Daylights · Brad Whitaker
- The Abduction of Kari Swenson · Sheriff Onstad
- Getting Even · King R. Kenderson
- Edge of Darkness · Darius Jedburgh
- Fletch · Chief Jerry Karlin
- Screen Two · Hunter McCall
- Final Justice · Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
- The Natural · The Whammer
- Joysticks · Joseph Rutter
- Wacko · Dick Harbinger
- Power · Tommy Vanda
- Eischied · Earl Eischied
- To Kill a Cop · Chief Earl M. Eischied
- To Kill a Cop · Chief Earl Eischied
- The Pack · Jerry
- Speedtrap · Pete Novick
- The Shadow of Chikara · Wishbone Cutter
- Checkered Flag or Crash · Walkaway Madden
- Mitchell · Mitchell
- Framed · Ron Lewis
- Golden Needles · Dan Mason
- The Outfit · Jack Cody
- Doc Elliot · Aaron Hickey
- Charley Varrick · Molly
- Walking Tall · Buford Pusser
- That Certain Summer · Phil Bonner
- The Streets of San Francisco · Leonard Collier Cord
- Junior Bonner · Curly Bonner
- The Valachi Papers · Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
- Welcome Home, Soldier Boys · Danny
- Mongo's Back in Town · Mongo Nash
- Wild Rovers · Paul Buckman
- Adam at Six A.M. · Harvey Gavin
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven · Slater
- The Mod Squad · Willie Turner
- Lancer · Day Pardee, Santee
- The Outsider · Billy Joe Corey
- Cool Hand Luke · Fixer
- The High Chaparral · Yuma
- Judd, for the Defense · Merl Varney
- Ironside · Eric Blair
- Mission: Impossible · Frank Kearney
- Felony Squad · Shep Taubs
- The F.B.I. · Alex Drake