Joe Don Baker

Acting · Born 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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

• Mud (2013)
• Strange Wilderness (2008)
• The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
• The Commission (2003)
• Joe Dirt (2001)
• Vegas, City of Dreams (2001)
• Inside The Living Daylights (2000)
• Inside 'The Living Daylights' (2000)
• Poodle Springs (1998)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• George Wallace (1997)
• To Dance with Olivia (1997)
• The Grass Harp (1996)
• Felony (1996)
• The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• GoldenEye (1995)
• Congo (1995)
• Panther (1995)
• The Underneath (1995)
• Reality Bites (1994)
• Ring of Steel (1994)