Joe Don Baker
Born: 1936-02-12 in Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Died: 2025-05-07
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2013
- Mud as King
2008
- Strange Wilderness as Bill Calhoun
2007
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
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
1999
- Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke as Buck Duke
1998
- Poodle Springs as P.J. Parker
1997
- Tomorrow Never Dies as Wade
- To Dance with Olivia as Horace
- George Wallace as Big Jim Folsom
- George Wallace as Big Jim Folsom
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
- Panther as Brimmer
- Congo as R.B. Travis
- The Underneath as Clay Hinkle
1994
- Felony as Donovan
- Reality Bites as Tom Pierce
- Ring of Steel as Man in Black
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
- The Living Daylights as Brad Whitaker
- Abduction as Sheriff Onstad
- The Killing Time as Carl Cunningham
- Leonard Part 6 as Snyderburn
1986
- Getting Even as King R. Kenderson
1985
- Fletch as Chief Jerry Karlin
- Edge of Darkness as Darius Jedburgh
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
1979
- Eischied as Earl Eischied
1978
- To Kill a Cop as Chief Earl M. Eischied
- To Kill a Cop as Chief Earl Eischied
1977
- The Pack as Jerry
- The Shadow of Chikara as Wishbone Cutter
- Speedtrap as Pete Novick
- Checkered Flag or Crash as Walkaway Madden
1974
- Golden Needles as Dan Mason
1973
- Walking Tall as Buford Pusser
- Charley Varrick as Molly
- The Outfit as Jack Cody
- Doc Elliot as Aaron Hickey
1972
- Junior Bonner as Curly Bonner
- The Valachi Papers as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
- That Certain Summer as Phil Bonner
1971
- Wild Rovers as Paul Buckman
- Mongo's Back in Town as Mongo Nash
- Welcome Home, Soldier Boys as Danny
1970
- Adam at Six A.M. as Harvey Gavin
1969
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven as Slater
1968
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad
- The Outsider as Billy Joe Corey
1967
- Ironside
- The High Chaparral as Yuma
- Judd for the Defense
- Cool Hand Luke as Fixer
1965
- The Big Valley as Tom Lightfoot
- The F.B.I. as Alex Drake
- Honey West as Rocky Hansen
1959
- Bonanza as Luke Harper
1955
- Gunsmoke as Woody Stoner