Joe Don Baker
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.
83 acting credits
Acting · 83
Bonanza
1959
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
The Big Valley
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
Screen Two
1985
The High Chaparral
1967
Lancer
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Honey West
1965
GoldenEye
1995
The Outsider
1968
Mars Attacks!
1996
Cape Fear
1991
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Mud
2013
The Living Daylights
1987
Cool Hand Luke
1967
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Congo
1995
Reality Bites
1994
Joe Dirt
2001
Doc Elliot
1973
Eischied
1979
Edge of Darkness
1985
The Natural
1984
Fletch
1985
Walking Tall
1973
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
George Wallace
1997
Charley Varrick
1973
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
To Kill a Cop
1978
Criminal Law
1989
Strange Wilderness
2008
The Outfit
1973
Panther
1995
Power
1980
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Valachi Papers
1972
Junior Bonner
1972
The Grass Harp
1996
Joysticks
1983
Wild Rovers
1971
The Underneath
1995
Wacko
1982
George Wallace
1997
Poodle Springs
1998
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Framed
1975
Citizen Cohn
1992
The Pack
1977
Golden Needles
1974
Leonard Part 6
1987
To Kill a Cop
1978
Mitchell
1975
Complex of Fear
1993
Ring of Steel
1994
The Killing Time
1987
Felony
1996
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
That Certain Summer
1972
Final Justice
1984
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
Speedtrap
1977
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
To Dance with Olivia
1997
Getting Even
1986
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
The Children
1990
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
The Commission
2003
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000