Joe Don Baker
Acting
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.
Filmography 83
Movies (61)
Mud2013King
Strange Wilderness2008Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas2007Self
The Dukes of Hazzard2005Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004Self (archive footage)
The Commission2003Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt2001Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams2001Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights2000Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'2000Self
Poodle Springs1998P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies1997Wade
George Wallace1997Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia1997Horace
Mars Attacks!1996Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp1996Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge1996Gerry Spence
Felony1996Donovan
GoldenEye1995Jack Wade
Congo1995R.B. Travis
Panther1995Brimmer
The Underneath1995Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel1994Man in Black
Reality Bites1994Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear1993Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman1992Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn1992Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear1991Claude Kersek
The Children1990Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law1989Detective Mesel
Shows (22)
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke1999Buck Duke
George Wallace1997Big Jim Folsom
The Siege at Ruby Ridge1996Gerry Spence
Edge of Darkness1985Darius Jedburgh
Screen Two1985Hunter McCall
Power1980Tommy Vanda
Eischied1979Earl Eischied
To Kill a Cop1978Chief Earl Eischied
Doc Elliot1973Aaron Hickey
The Mod Squad1968
Lancer1968
The Outsider1968Billy Joe Corey
The High Chaparral1967Yuma
Judd, for the Defense1967
Ironside1967
Mission: Impossible1966Frank Kearney
Felony Squad1966
The F.B.I.1965Alex Drake
Honey West1965Rocky Hansen
The Big Valley1965Tom Lightfoot
Bonanza1959Luke Harper
Gunsmoke1955Woody Stoner