Joe Don Baker
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday12 February 1936
Died7 May 2025 (age 89)
Place of birthGroesbeck, Texas, USA
Known credits84
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.
Mud
2013 · King
Strange Wilderness
2008 · Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003 · Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001 · Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · Buck Duke
Poodle Springs
1998 · P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Wade
George Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997 · Horace
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
1996 · Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
Felony
1996 · Donovan
GoldenEye
1995 · Jack Wade
Congo
1995 · R.B. Travis
Panther
1995 · Brimmer
The Underneath
1995 · Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel
1994 · Man in Black
Reality Bites
1994 · Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear
1993 · Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
1991 · Claude Kersek
The Children
1990 · Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
1989 · Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
1989 · Hunter McCall
Leonard Part 6
1987 · Snyderburn
The Killing Time
1987 · Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
1987 · Brad Whitaker
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · Sheriff Onstad
Getting Even
1986 · King R. Kenderson
Edge of Darkness
1985 · Darius Jedburgh
Fletch
1985 · Chief Jerry Karlin
Screen Two
1985 · Hunter McCall
Final Justice
1984 · Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
The Natural
1984 · The Whammer
Joysticks
1983 · Joseph Rutter
Wacko
1982 · Dick Harbinger
Power
1980 · Tommy Vanda
Eischied
1979 · Earl Eischied
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