Joe Don Baker

Actor

Born: February 12, 1936
Died: May 7, 2025 (age 89)
From: Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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.

Filmography (61)

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
Panther (1995)
Brimmer
The Underneath (1995)
Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel (1994)
Man in Black
Reality Bites (1994)
Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear (1993)
Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn (1992)
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear (1991)
Claude Kersek
The Children (1990)
Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law (1989)
Detective Mesel