7.3Acting
Joe Don Baker
- Born
- 1936-02-12
- Died
- 2025-05-07
- Birthplace
- Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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
Filmography
84 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Mud
2013 · Movie
King
Strange Wilderness
2008 · Movie
Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Movie
Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Movie
Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003 · Movie
Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001 · Movie
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · Movie
Dylan Garrett
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · Movie
Self
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · Movie
Self
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · TV Show
Buck Duke
Poodle Springs
1998 · Movie
P.J. Parker
George Wallace
1997 · Movie
Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
1997 · TV Show
Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997 · Movie
Horace
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Movie
Wade
Felony
1996 · Movie
Donovan
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Movie
Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
1996 · Movie
Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Movie
Gerry Spence
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · TV Show
Gerry Spence
Congo
1995 · Movie
R.B. Travis
GoldenEye
1995 · Movie
Jack Wade
Panther
1995 · Movie
Brimmer
The Underneath
1995 · Movie
Clay Hinkle
Reality Bites
1994 · Movie
Tom Pierce
Ring of Steel
1994 · Movie
Man in Black
Complex of Fear
1993 · Movie
Det. Frank Farrel
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Movie
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Movie
Olaf Andersen
Cape Fear
1991 · Movie
Claude Kersek
The Children
1990 · Movie
Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
1989 · Movie
Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
1989 · Movie
Hunter McCall
Leonard Part 6
1987 · Movie
Snyderburn
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · Movie
Sheriff Onstad
The Killing Time
1987 · Movie
Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
1987 · Movie
Brad Whitaker
Getting Even
1986 · Movie
King R. Kenderson
Edge of Darkness
1985 · TV Show
Darius Jedburgh
Fletch
1985 · Movie
Chief Jerry Karlin
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
Hunter McCall
Final Justice
1984 · Movie
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
The Natural
1984 · Movie
The Whammer
Joysticks
1983 · Movie
Joseph Rutter
Wacko
1982 · Movie
Dick Harbinger
Power
1980 · TV Show
Tommy Vanda
Eischied
1979 · TV Show
Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978 · Movie
Chief Earl M. Eischied
To Kill a Cop
1978 · TV Show
Chief Earl Eischied
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977 · Movie
Walkaway Madden
Speedtrap
1977 · Movie
Pete Novick
The Pack
1977 · Movie
Jerry
The Shadow of Chikara
1977 · Movie
Wishbone Cutter
Framed
1975 · Movie
Ron Lewis
Mitchell
1975 · Movie
Mitchell
Golden Needles
1974 · Movie
Dan Mason
Charley Varrick
1973 · Movie
Molly
Doc Elliot
1973 · TV Show
Aaron Hickey
The Outfit
1973 · Movie
Jack Cody
Walking Tall
1973 · Movie
Buford Pusser
Junior Bonner
1972 · Movie
Curly Bonner
That Certain Summer
1972 · Movie
Phil Bonner
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV Show
Leonard Collier Cord
The Valachi Papers
1972 · Movie
Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Mongo's Back in Town
1971 · Movie
Mongo Nash
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971 · Movie
Danny
Wild Rovers
1971 · Movie
Paul Buckman
Adam at Six A.M.
1970 · Movie
Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Movie
Slater
Lancer
1968 · TV Show
Day Pardee · Santee · Clovis Horner
The Mod Squad
1968 · TV Show
Willie Turner
The Outsider
1968 · TV Show
Billy Joe Corey
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Movie
Fixer
Ironside
1967 · TV Show
Eric Blair
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · TV Show
Merl Varney
The High Chaparral
1967 · TV Show
Yuma
Felony Squad
1966 · TV Show
Shep Taubs
Mission: Impossible
1966 · TV Show
Frank Kearney
Honey West
1965 · TV Show
Rocky Hansen
The Big Valley
1965 · TV Show
Tom Lightfoot
The F.B.I.
1965 · TV Show
Alex Drake
Bonanza
1959 · TV Show
Luke Harper
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV Show
Woody Stoner · Tom Butler