Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born: February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Died: May 7, 2025 (aged 89)
Highest Rated
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
Mars Attacks!
1996
GoldenEye
1995
Cape Fear
1991
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Mud
2013
The Living Daylights
1987
Cool Hand Luke
1967
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Congo
1995
Joe Dirt
2001
Reality Bites
1994
Fletch
1985
Photos (3)
Movies (57)
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
The Living Daylights
Brad Whitaker
Mars Attacks!
Glenn Norris
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wade
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
The Dukes of Hazzard
Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo
R.B. Travis
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
The Natural
The Whammer
Mud
King
Joe Dirt
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
The Distinguished Gentleman
Olaf Andersen
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
Reality Bites
Tom Pierce
The Outfit
Jack Cody
Criminal Law
Detective Mesel
Strange Wilderness
Bill Calhoun
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Slater
Walking Tall
Buford Pusser
Panther
Brimmer
Charley Varrick
Molly
The Grass Harp
Sheriff Junius Candle
Poodle Springs
P.J. Parker
Framed
Ron Lewis
The Killing Time
Carl Cunningham
The Valachi Papers
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence
Junior Bonner
Curly Bonner
The Underneath
Clay Hinkle
Joysticks
Joseph Rutter
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
The Pack
Jerry
Wild Rovers
Paul Buckman
Leonard Part 6
Snyderburn
The Children
Cliffe Wheater
Mitchell
Mitchell
Golden Needles
Dan Mason
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Sheriff Onstad
Wacko
Dick Harbinger
Speedtrap
Pete Novick
Checkered Flag or Crash
Walkaway Madden
That Certain Summer
Phil Bonner
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl M. Eischied
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Danny
Citizen Cohn
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
The Shadow of Chikara
Wishbone Cutter
To Dance with Olivia
Horace
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dylan Garrett
Adam at Six A.M.
Harvey Gavin
Getting Even
King R. Kenderson
Ring of Steel
Man in Black
Felony
Donovan
Final Justice
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
Complex of Fear
Det. Frank Farrel
Defrosting the Fridge
Hunter McCall
The Commission
Rep. Hale Boggs
Mongo's Back in Town
Mongo Nash
TV Shows (26)
Ironside
Eric Blair · 1 eps
Bonanza
Luke Harper · 1 eps
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney · 1 eps
Screen Two
Hunter McCall · 1 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
Leonard Collier Cord · 1 eps
The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Alex Drake · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Tom Butler · 1 eps
The High Chaparral
Yuma · 1 eps
Judd, for the Defense
Merl Varney · 1 eps
Honey West
Rocky Hansen · 1 eps
Lancer
Day Pardee · 1 eps
Lancer
Santee · 1 eps
Lancer
Clovis Horner · 1 eps
Felony Squad
Shep Taubs · 1 eps
The Mod Squad
Willie Turner · 1 eps
The Outsider
Billy Joe Corey · 1 eps
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh · 6 eps
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence · 2 eps
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom · 2 eps
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Buck Duke · 4 eps
Eischied
Earl Eischied · 13 eps
Doc Elliot
Aaron Hickey · 1 eps
Power
Tommy Vanda · 2 eps
To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl Eischied · 2 eps
