
Joe Don Baker
Known for Acting · 83 credits
- Born
- 1936-02-12
- Died
- 2025-05-07
- Place of birth
- Groesbeck, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- جو دان بیکر · Джо Дон Бейкер
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
TV Shows (22)

Bonanza
1959
as Luke Harper

Ironside
1967

Mission: Impossible
1966
as Frank Kearney

Screen Two
1985
as Hunter McCall

The F.B.I.
1965
as Alex Drake

The Big Valley
1965
as Tom Lightfoot

Gunsmoke
1955
as Woody Stoner / Tom Butler

The High Chaparral
1967
as Yuma

Felony Squad
1966

Honey West
1965
as Rocky Hansen

The Mod Squad
1968

Lancer
1968

Judd, for the Defense
1967

The Outsider
1968
as Billy Joe Corey

Edge of Darkness
1985
as Darius Jedburgh

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
as Buck Duke

Eischied
1979
as Earl Eischied

Doc Elliot
1973
as Aaron Hickey

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence

George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom

Power
1980
as Tommy Vanda

To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl Eischied
Movies (61)

Cape Fear
1991
as Claude Kersek

Mars Attacks!
1996
as Glenn Norris

GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade

The Living Daylights
1987
as Brad Whitaker

Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Fixer

Mud
2013
as King

Joe Dirt
2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite

The Natural
1984
as The Whammer

Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis

Panther
1995
as Brimmer

Walking Tall
1973
as Buford Pusser

Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
as Slater

Charley Varrick
1973
as Molly

Fletch
1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence

The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Olaf Andersen

Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker

The Valachi Papers
1972
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun

The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
as Sheriff Onstad

Speedtrap
1977
as Pete Novick

George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom

Criminal Law
1989
as Detective Mesel

To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace

The Outfit
1973
as Jack Cody

The Pack
1977
as Jerry

The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle

Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Harvey Gavin

Citizen Cohn
1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Wacko
1982
as Dick Harbinger

Joysticks
1983
as Joseph Rutter

Junior Bonner
1972
as Curly Bonner

The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle

Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
as Walkaway Madden

Leonard Part 6
1987
as Snyderburn

The Killing Time
1987
as Carl Cunningham

Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett

Golden Needles
1974
as Dan Mason

Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Mongo Nash

The Shadow of Chikara
1977
as Wishbone Cutter

Felony
1996
as Donovan

That Certain Summer
1972
as Phil Bonner

The Children
1990
as Cliffe Wheater

Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black

Getting Even
1986
as King R. Kenderson

Mitchell
1975
as Mitchell

Framed
1975
as Ron Lewis

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)

The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs

Complex of Fear
1993
as Det. Frank Farrel

To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied

Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self

Wild Rovers
1971
as Paul Buckman

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self

Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Hunter McCall

Final Justice
1984
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
as Danny

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
as Self
About Joe Don Baker
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. With 83 credits spanning from 1955 to 2013, Joe Don Baker has appeared in 61 films and 22 TV shows.
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Most Popular Joe Don Baker Movies
- Cape Fear (1991) — as Claude Kersek
- Mars Attacks! (1996) — as Glenn Norris
- GoldenEye (1995) — as Jack Wade
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) — as Wade
- The Living Daylights (1987) — as Brad Whitaker
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