Joe Don Baker
Department: Acting
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
Cool Hand Luke
1967
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Cape Fear
1991
The Living Daylights
1987
GoldenEye
1995
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Poodle Springs
1998
Congo
1995
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Reality Bites
1994
Junior Bonner
1972
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
The Natural
1984
Leonard Part 6
1987
The Killing Time
1987
Walking Tall
1973
Mitchell
1975
Fletch
1985
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
The Outfit
1973
Joysticks
1983
Charley Varrick
1973
Strange Wilderness
2008
Criminal Law
1989
Wild Rovers
1971
George Wallace
1997
Framed
1975
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
The Grass Harp
1996
Ring of Steel
1994
Citizen Cohn
1992
Speedtrap
1977
Wacko
1982
The Pack
1977
Getting Even
1986
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Mud
2013
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
That Certain Summer
1972
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
Golden Needles
1974
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
Felony
1994
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Joe Dirt
2001
Complex of Fear
1993
Panther
1995
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
To Dance with Olivia
1997
The Underneath
1995
Mars Attacks!
1996
The Children
1990
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
The Valachi Papers
1972
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
The Commission
2003
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
To Kill a Cop
1978
Final Justice
1984
The F.B.I.
1965
The Mod Squad
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
Ironside
1967
Felony Squad
1966
The High Chaparral
1967
Lancer
1968
The Big Valley
1965
Judd for the Defense
1967
Edge of Darkness
1985
Honey West
1965
Eischied
1979
To Kill a Cop
1978
Gunsmoke
1955
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
Bonanza
1959
The Outsider
1968
Doc Elliot
1973
George Wallace
1997
Power
1980
Mission: Impossible
1966