Joe Don Baker

Known for: Acting

Born: 1936-02-12 – 2025-05-07 (aged 89)

From: Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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 (83)

MOVIE★ 7.1
Mud
2013
as King
MOVIE★ 4.9
Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun
MOVIE
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite
MOVIE★ 8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs
MOVIE★ 5.6
Joe Dirt
2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 3.4
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett
MOVIE★ 8.0
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
as Self
TV★ 5.5
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
as Buck Duke
MOVIE★ 5.5
Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker
MOVIE★ 6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade
MOVIE★ 6.8
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
TV★ 7.0
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
MOVIE★ 8.0
To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace
MOVIE★ 6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Glenn Norris
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
TV
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
MOVIE★ 4.8
Felony
1996
as Donovan
MOVIE★ 6.9
GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade
MOVIE★ 5.6
Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis
MOVIE★ 6.3
Panther
1995
as Brimmer
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle
MOVIE★ 5.1
Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black
MOVIE★ 6.5
Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce
MOVIE★ 6.8
Complex of Fear
1993
as Det. Frank Farrel
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
as Olaf Andersen
MOVIE★ 6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
MOVIE★ 7.3
Cape Fear
1991
as Claude Kersek
MOVIE★ 4.9
The Children
1990
as Cliffe Wheater
MOVIE★ 5.6
Criminal Law
1989
as Detective Mesel
MOVIE★ 3.0
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Hunter McCall
MOVIE★ 2.9
Leonard Part 6
1987
as Snyderburn
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Killing Time
1987
as Carl Cunningham
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Living Daylights
1987
as Brad Whitaker
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
as Sheriff Onstad
MOVIE★ 3.4
Getting Even
1986
as King R. Kenderson
TV★ 8.1
Edge of Darkness
1985
as Darius Jedburgh
MOVIE★ 6.8
Fletch
1985
as Chief Jerry Karlin
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Hunter McCall
MOVIE★ 2.7
Final Justice
1984
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Natural
1984
as The Whammer
MOVIE★ 4.5
Joysticks
1983
as Joseph Rutter
MOVIE★ 5.1
Wacko
1982
as Dick Harbinger
TV★ 7.0
Power
1980
as Tommy Vanda
TV★ 7.0
Eischied
1979
as Earl Eischied
MOVIE
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
TV★ 8.0
To Kill a Cop
1978
as Chief Earl Eischied
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Pack
1977
as Jerry
MOVIE★ 6.3
Speedtrap
1977
as Pete Novick
MOVIE★ 4.6
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
as Wishbone Cutter
MOVIE★ 4.6
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
as Walkaway Madden
MOVIE★ 3.3
Mitchell
1975
as Mitchell
MOVIE★ 6.6
Framed
1975
as Ron Lewis
MOVIE★ 5.3
Golden Needles
1974
as Dan Mason
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Outfit
1973
as Jack Cody
TV★ 7.0
Doc Elliot
1973
as Aaron Hickey
MOVIE★ 7.4
Charley Varrick
1973
as Molly
MOVIE★ 6.6
Walking Tall
1973
as Buford Pusser
MOVIE★ 6.6
That Certain Summer
1972
as Phil Bonner
MOVIE★ 6.1
Junior Bonner
1972
as Curly Bonner
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Valachi Papers
1972
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 4.8
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
as Danny
MOVIE★ 6.1
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Mongo Nash
MOVIE★ 6.1
Wild Rovers
1971
as Paul Buckman
MOVIE★ 4.9
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
as Harvey Gavin
MOVIE★ 5.4
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
as Slater
TV★ 6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
TV★ 5.6
Lancer
1968
TV★ 6.0
The Outsider
1968
as Billy Joe Corey
MOVIE★ 7.7
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Fixer
TV★ 6.8
The High Chaparral
1967
as Yuma
TV★ 7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967
TV★ 6.9
Ironside
1967
TV★ 7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Frank Kearney
TV★ 6.5
Felony Squad
1966
TV★ 5.6
The F.B.I.
1965
as Alex Drake
TV★ 7.2
Honey West
1965
as Rocky Hansen
TV★ 6.2
The Big Valley
1965
as Tom Lightfoot
TV★ 7.5
Bonanza
1959
as Luke Harper
TV★ 6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
as Woody Stoner