Joe Don Baker

Personal Info

Birthday

February 12, 1936

Day of Death

2025-05-07

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Also Known As

جو دان بیکر

Джо Дон Бейкер

Joe Don Baker

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

Bonanza

The Big Valley

The F.B.I.

Gunsmoke

The High Chaparral

Honey West

Edge of Darkness

The Outsider

Filmography

2013
Mud
as King
2008
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2005
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
2002
Best Ever Bond
as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
1998
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
1996
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
1995
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
Congo
as R.B. Travis
Panther
as Brimmer
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
1994
Felony
as Donovan
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
1993
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
1992
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1991
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
1990
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
1989
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
1987
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
Abduction
as Sheriff Onstad
1986
Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
1985
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
1984
Final Justice
as Geronimo
The Natural
as The Whammer
1983
Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
1982
Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
1980
Power
as Tommy Vanda
1978
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
1977
The Pack
as Jerry
Speedtrap
as Pete Novick
The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter
Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden
1975
Mitchell
as Mitchell
Framed
as Ron Lewis
1974
Golden Needles
as Dan Mason
1973
The Outfit
as Cody
Charley Varrick
as Molly
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
1972
That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1971
Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
as Danny
Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman
1970
Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin
1969
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater
1967
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer