Joe Don Baker

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-02-12 (89 years old)

Deathday

2025-05-07

Place of Birth

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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.

Acting

1967

1991

Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

1995

GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

1987

The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

1998

Poodle Springs

as P.J. Parker

1995

Congo

as R.B. Travis

1992

1994

Reality Bites

as Tom Pierce

1972

Junior Bonner

as Curly Bonner

2005

The Dukes of Hazzard

as Governor Jim Applewhite

1984

The Natural

as The Whammer

1987

Leonard Part 6

as Snyderburn

1987

The Killing Time

as Carl Cunningham

1973

Walking Tall

as Buford Pusser

1975

Mitchell

as Mitchell

1985

Fletch

as Chief Jerry Karlin

1973

The Outfit

as Cody

1973

1983

Joysticks

as Joseph Rutter

2008

Strange Wilderness

as Bill Calhoun

1989

Criminal Law

as Detective Mesel

1971

Wild Rovers

as Paul Buckman

1997

George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

1975

Framed

as Ron Lewis

1977

The Shadow of Chikara

as Wishbone Cutter

1996

The Grass Harp

as Sheriff Junius Candle

1994

Ring of Steel

as Man in Black

1992

Citizen Cohn

as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

1977

Speedtrap

as Pete Novick

1982

Wacko

as Dick Harbinger

1977

The Pack

as Jerry

1986

Getting Even

as King R. Kenderson

1970

Adam at Six A.M.

as Harvey Gavin

2013

Mud

as King

1972

That Certain Summer

as Phil Bonner

1977

Checkered Flag or Crash

as Walkaway Madden

1974

Golden Needles

as Dan Mason

1971

1994

Felony

as Donovan

1989

Defrosting the Fridge

as Hunter McCall

1987

Abduction

as Sheriff Onstad

2001

Joe Dirt

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

1993

Complex of Fear

as Det. Frank Farrel

1995

Panther

as Brimmer

1996

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980

Power

as Tommy Vanda

1995

The Underneath

as Clay Hinkle

1996

Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris

1990

The Children

as Cliffe Wheater

2001

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Dylan Garrett

1972

The Valachi Papers

as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

2003

The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

1978

To Kill a Cop

as Chief Earl M. Eischied

1984

Final Justice

as Geronimo

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