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.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Birthday
2/12/1936
Cool Hand Luke
100%
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Cape Fear
GoldenEye
81%
Tomorrow Never Dies
58%
The Living Daylights
75%
Poodle Springs
Congo
24%
The Distinguished Gentleman
Reality Bites
62%
Junior Bonner
92%
The Dukes of Hazzard
14%
The Natural
83%
Leonard Part 6
The Killing Time
Walking Tall
27%
Mitchell
Fletch
79%
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
The Outfit
86%
Charley Varrick
82%
Joysticks
Strange Wilderness
2%
Criminal Law
30%
Wild Rovers
60%
George Wallace
Framed
96%
The Shadow of Chikara
The Grass Harp
50%
Ring of Steel
Citizen Cohn
Speedtrap
Wacko
The Pack
55%
Getting Even
Adam at Six A.M.
Mud
97%
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
That Certain Summer
Checkered Flag or Crash
Golden Needles
Mongo's Back in Town
Felony
Defrosting the Fridge
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Joe Dirt
9%
Complex of Fear
Panther
84%
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
To Dance with Olivia
The Underneath
64%
Mars Attacks!
57%
Inside The Living Daylights
75%
Vegas, City of Dreams
The Valachi Papers
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
75%
The Commission
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
To Kill a Cop
Final Justice
The Children