
Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born 1936-02-12 · 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

Mud
Apr 26, 2013

Strange Wilderness
Feb 1, 2008

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Feb 3, 2007

The Dukes of Hazzard
Aug 5, 2005

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Jul 25, 2004

The Commission
Nov 7, 2003

Joe Dirt
Apr 10, 2001

Vegas, City of Dreams
Apr 1, 2001

Inside The Living Daylights
Oct 17, 2000

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Oct 17, 2000

Poodle Springs
Jul 25, 1998

Tomorrow Never Dies
Dec 11, 1997

George Wallace
Aug 24, 1997

To Dance with Olivia
Mar 9, 1997

Mars Attacks!
Dec 13, 1996

The Grass Harp
Oct 11, 1996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
May 19, 1996

GoldenEye
Nov 16, 1995

Congo
Jun 9, 1995

Panther
May 3, 1995

The Underneath
Apr 28, 1995

Felony
Oct 19, 1994

Ring of Steel
Mar 30, 1994

Reality Bites
Feb 18, 1994

Complex of Fear
Jan 12, 1993

The Distinguished Gentleman
Dec 4, 1992

Citizen Cohn
Aug 22, 1992

Cape Fear
Nov 13, 1991

The Children
May 18, 1990

Criminal Law
Apr 28, 1989