Joe Don Baker

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

Cool Hand Luke

1 November, 1967

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

3 February, 2007

Cape Fear

13 November, 1991

The Living Daylights

29 June, 1987

GoldenEye

16 November, 1995

Tomorrow Never Dies

11 December, 1997

Poodle Springs

25 July, 1998

Congo

9 June, 1995

The Distinguished Gentleman

4 December, 1992

Reality Bites

18 February, 1994

Junior Bonner

2 August, 1972

The Dukes of Hazzard

5 August, 2005

The Natural

11 May, 1984

Leonard Part 6

18 December, 1987

The Killing Time

23 October, 1987

Walking Tall

22 February, 1973

Mitchell

10 September, 1975

Fletch

31 May, 1985

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

14 July, 1969

The Outfit

19 October, 1973

Joysticks

4 March, 1983

Charley Varrick

19 September, 1973

Strange Wilderness

1 February, 2008

Criminal Law

28 April, 1989

Wild Rovers

23 June, 1971

George Wallace

24 August, 1997

Framed

1 August, 1975

The Shadow of Chikara

15 July, 1977

The Grass Harp

11 October, 1996

Ring of Steel

30 March, 1994

Citizen Cohn

22 August, 1992

Speedtrap

1 September, 1977

Wacko

12 November, 1982

The Pack

20 November, 1977

Getting Even

21 February, 1986

Adam at Six A.M.

22 September, 1970

Mud

26 April, 2013

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

10 December, 1971

That Certain Summer

1 November, 1972

Checkered Flag or Crash

21 May, 1977

Golden Needles

17 July, 1974

Mongo's Back in Town

10 December, 1971

Felony

19 October, 1994

Defrosting the Fridge

26 March, 1989

Abduction

8 March, 1987

Joe Dirt

10 April, 2001

Complex of Fear

12 January, 1993

Panther

3 May, 1995

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

19 May, 1996

To Dance with Olivia

9 March, 1997

Best Ever Bond

22 November, 2002

Power

14 January, 1980

The Underneath

28 April, 1995

Mars Attacks!

13 December, 1996

The Children

18 May, 1990

Inside The Living Daylights

17 October, 2000

Vegas, City of Dreams

1 April, 2001

The Valachi Papers

6 January, 1972

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

17 October, 2000

The Commission

7 November, 2003

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

25 July, 2004

To Kill a Cop

10 April, 1978

Final Justice

28 October, 1984

The F.B.I.

1965

The Mod Squad

1968

Gunsmoke

1955

Mission: Impossible

1966

Ironside

1967

Felony Squad

1966

The High Chaparral

1967

Lancer

1968

The Big Valley

1965

Judd for the Defense

1967

Edge of Darkness

1985

Honey West

1965

Eischied

1979

To Kill a Cop

1978

Gunsmoke

1955

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

1999

Bonanza

1959

The Outsider

1968

Doc Elliot

1973