Joe Don Baker
Acting

Joe Don Baker

Born 12 February 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA · Died 7 May 2025

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

Mars Attacks!
GoldenEye
Cape Fear
Tomorrow Never Dies
Mud
The Living Daylights
Cool Hand Luke
The Dukes of Hazzard
Congo
Reality Bites
Fletch
The Natural
Mud
Strange Wilderness
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Commission
Vegas, City of Dreams
Poodle Springs
Tomorrow Never Dies
George Wallace
To Dance with Olivia
The Grass Harp
Felony
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Mars Attacks!
GoldenEye
Congo
Panther
The Underneath
Reality Bites
Ring of Steel
Complex of Fear
The Distinguished Gentleman
Citizen Cohn
Cape Fear
The Children
Criminal Law
Defrosting the Fridge
The Living Daylights
Leonard Part 6
The Killing Time
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Getting Even
Fletch
The Natural
Final Justice
Joysticks
Wacko
To Kill a Cop
The Shadow of Chikara
Speedtrap
The Pack
Checkered Flag or Crash
Mitchell
Framed
Golden Needles
Walking Tall
The Outfit
Charley Varrick
Junior Bonner
That Certain Summer
Wild Rovers
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Mongo's Back in Town
Adam at Six A.M.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Cool Hand Luke
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