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Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Actor
Date of birth: February 12, 1936Date of death: May 7, 2025 (89)City: 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

50 roles
2010s1 role
2013MudKing★ 7.1Movie
2000s2 roles
2008Strange WildernessBill Calhoun★ 4.9Movie
2005The Dukes of HazzardGovernor Jim Applewhite★ 5.6Movie
1990s17 roles
1999Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeBuck Duke★ 5.5Series
1998Poodle SpringsP.J. Parker★ 5.4Movie
1997George WallaceBig Jim Folsom★ 6.8Movie
1997Tomorrow Never DiesWade★ 6.4Movie
1980s11 roles
1989Criminal LawDetective Mesel★ 5.5Movie
1987The Living DaylightsBrad Whitaker★ 6.5Movie
1987The Abduction of Kari SwensonSheriff Onstad★ 6.0Movie
1987The Killing TimeCarl Cunningham★ 5.0Movie
1970s17 roles
1979EischiedEarl Eischied★ 7.0Series
1978To Kill a CopChief Earl Eischied★ 8.0Series
1977The PackJerry★ 6.8Movie
1977SpeedtrapPete Novick★ 6.3Movie
1960s2 roles
1969Guns of the Magnificent SevenSlater★ 5.3Movie
1967Cool Hand LukeFixer★ 7.7Movie