
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.
Acting (62 movies)

Cool Hand Luke
1967

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007

Cape Fear
1991

GoldenEye
1995

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997

The Living Daylights
1987

Poodle Springs
1998

Congo
1995

The Distinguished Gentleman
1992

Reality Bites
1994

Junior Bonner
1972

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005

The Natural
1984

Leonard Part 6
1987

The Killing Time
1987

Walking Tall
1973

Mitchell
1975

Fletch
1985

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969

The Outfit
1973

Charley Varrick
1973

Joysticks
1983

Strange Wilderness
2008

Criminal Law
1989

Wild Rovers
1971

George Wallace
1997

Framed
1975

The Shadow of Chikara
1977

The Grass Harp
1996

Ring of Steel
1994

Citizen Cohn
1992

Speedtrap
1977

Wacko
1982

The Pack
1977

Getting Even
1986

Adam at Six A.M.
1970

Mud
2013

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971

That Certain Summer
1972

Checkered Flag or Crash
1977

Golden Needles
1974

Mongo's Back in Town
1971

Felony
1994

Defrosting the Fridge
1989

Abduction
1987

Joe Dirt
2001

Complex of Fear
1993

Panther
1995

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996

To Dance with Olivia
1997

Power
1980

The Underneath
1995

Mars Attacks!
1996

The Children
1990

Inside The Living Daylights
2000

Vegas, City of Dreams
2001

The Valachi Papers
1972

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000

The Commission
2003

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004

To Kill a Cop
1978

Final Justice
1984
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