Joe Don Baker

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.

Filmography

• Ironside (1967)
• Bonanza (1959)
• Screen Two (1985)
• The Big Valley (1965)
• The F.B.I. (1965)
• Gunsmoke (1955)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
• Felony Squad (1966)
• Honey West (1965)
• GoldenEye (1995)
• Lancer (1968)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• The Mod Squad (1968)
• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Natural (1984)
• Congo (1995)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Mud (2013)
• Joe Dirt (2001)
• Reality Bites (1994)
• Joysticks (1983)
• Fletch (1985)
• The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
• The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
• Panther (1995)
• Criminal Law (1989)
• Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)