Joe Don Baker

Actor Feb 12 (died age 89) Groesbeck, Texas, USA 1955–2013 (58 year career)

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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

Film

Cape Fear

Claude Kersek

Film

GoldenEye

Jack Wade

Film

Cool Hand Luke

Fixer

Film

Mud

King

Film

Mars Attacks!

Glenn Norris

Film

Tomorrow Never Dies

Wade

Film

The Living Daylights

Brad Whitaker

Film

The Natural

The Whammer

Filmography

Acting (81)

Movies (62)

Mud

as King

Strange Wilderness

as Bill Calhoun

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005

as Governor Jim Applewhite

5.6

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

Joe Dirt

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

5.6

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001

as Dylan Garrett

2.0

Inside The Living Daylights

2000

as Self

8.0

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

as Self

Poodle Springs

as P.J. Parker

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Wade

George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

To Dance with Olivia

as Horace

Mars Attacks!

1996

as Glenn Norris

6.4

The Grass Harp

1996

as Sheriff Junius Candle

5.8

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

as Gerry Spence

GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

Congo

as R.B. Travis

Panther

as Brimmer

The Underneath

as Clay Hinkle

Reality Bites

as Tom Pierce

Felony

as Donovan

Ring of Steel

as Man in Black

Complex of Fear

as Det. Frank Farrel

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992

as Olaf Andersen

6.0

Citizen Cohn

1992

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

The Children

as Cliffe Wheater

Criminal Law

as Detective Mesel

Defrosting the Fridge

as Hunter McCall

The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

The Killing Time

as Carl Cunningham

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

as Sheriff Onstad

Leonard Part 6

as Snyderburn

Getting Even

as King R. Kenderson

Fletch

as Chief Jerry Karlin

The Natural

as The Whammer

Final Justice

as Geronimo

Joysticks

as Joseph Rutter

Wacko

as Dick Harbinger

Power

as Tommy Vanda

To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl M. Eischied

Speedtrap

as Pete Novick

The Pack

as Jerry

Checkered Flag or Crash

1977

as Walkaway Madden

4.0

The Shadow of Chikara

as Wishbone Cutter

Mitchell

as Mitchell

Framed

as Ron Lewis

Golden Needles

as Dan Mason

Charley Varrick

as Molly

The Outfit

as Jack Cody

Walking Tall

as Buford Pusser

The Valachi Papers

as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Junior Bonner

as Curly Bonner

That Certain Summer

as Phil Bonner

Wild Rovers

as Paul Buckman

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

as Danny

Mongo's Back in Town

as Mongo Nash

Adam at Six A.M.

as Harvey Gavin

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Slater

Cool Hand Luke

as Fixer

Television (19)

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

1999

as Buck Duke

2.0

George Wallace

1997

as Big Jim Folsom

Edge of Darkness

as Darius Jedburgh

Eischied

as Earl Eischied

To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl Eischied

Doc Elliot

1973

as Aaron Hickey

Lancer

The Outsider

as Billy Joe Corey

The Mod Squad

Ironside

The High Chaparral

as Yuma

Judd for the Defense

Mission: Impossible

as Frank Kearney

Felony Squad

The F.B.I.

as Alex Drake

The Big Valley

as Tom Lightfoot

Honey West

as Rocky Hansen

Bonanza

as Luke Harper

Gunsmoke

as Woody Stoner