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
The F.B.I.
1965
as Alex Drake
The Big Valley
1965
as Tom Lightfoot
Screen Two
1985
as Hunter McCall
The High Chaparral
1967
as Yuma
Gunsmoke
1955
as Woody Stoner / Tom Butler
Lancer
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Honey West
1965
as Rocky Hansen
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Outsider
1968
as Billy Joe Corey
Edge of Darkness
1985
as Darius Jedburgh
Doc Elliot
1973
as Aaron Hickey
Eischied
1979
as Earl Eischied
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
as Buck Duke
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl Eischied
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
Power
1980
as Tommy Vanda
Movies (61)
GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Glenn Norris
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Fixer
Mud
2013
as King
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade
The Living Daylights
1987
as Brad Whitaker
Cape Fear
1991
as Claude Kersek
Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Joe Dirt
2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce
The Natural
1984
as The Whammer
Fletch
1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin
Walking Tall
1973
as Buford Pusser
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
as Slater
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Olaf Andersen
Charley Varrick
1973
as Molly
The Outfit
1973
as Jack Cody
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun
Final Justice
1984
as Geronimo
The Valachi Papers
1972
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Panther
1995
as Brimmer
Framed
1975
as Ron Lewis
The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
Wacko
1982
as Dick Harbinger
Speedtrap
1977
as Pete Novick
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Criminal Law
1989
as Detective Mesel
Golden Needles
1974
as Dan Mason
The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle
Junior Bonner
1972
as Curly Bonner
Joysticks
1983
as Joseph Rutter
Felony
1996
as Donovan
Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
Mitchell
1975
as Mitchell
Complex of Fear
1993
as Det. Frank Farrel
The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs
The Killing Time
1987
as Carl Cunningham
Wild Rovers
1971
as Paul Buckman
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett
The Children
1990
as Cliffe Wheater
The Pack
1977
as Jerry
Leonard Part 6
1987
as Snyderburn
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Harvey Gavin
To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Mongo Nash
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
as Sheriff Onstad
Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
as Wishbone Cutter
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Hunter McCall
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
as Walkaway Madden
Getting Even
1986
as King R. Kenderson
That Certain Summer
1972
as Phil Bonner
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
- GoldenEye (1995) — as Jack Wade
- Mars Attacks! (1996) — as Glenn Norris
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) — as Fixer
- Mud (2013) — as King
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) — as Wade
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