Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born: 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Died: 2025-05-07
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.
🎬 Movies (20)
Mud
2013
King
Strange Wilderness
2008
Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003
Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
Self
Poodle Springs
1998
P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Wade
George Wallace
1997
Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997
Horace
Mars Attacks!
1996
Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
1996
Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Gerry Spence
Felony
1996
Donovan
GoldenEye
1995
Jack Wade
Congo
1995
R.B. Travis
📺 TV Shows (20)
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
Buck Duke
George Wallace
1997
Big Jim Folsom
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Gerry Spence
Edge of Darkness
1985
Darius Jedburgh
Screen Two
1985
Hunter McCall
Power
1980
Tommy Vanda
Eischied
1979
Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978
Chief Earl Eischied
Doc Elliot
1973
Aaron Hickey
The Mod Squad
1968
Lancer
1968
The Outsider
1968
Billy Joe Corey
The High Chaparral
1967
Yuma
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
Frank Kearney
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
Alex Drake
Honey West
1965
Rocky Hansen
The Big Valley
1965
Tom Lightfoot