Joe Don Baker
Acting · 89 years old
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.
Known For
Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh
Inside The Living Daylights
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Cool Hand Luke
Fixer
Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney
Judd for the Defense
Bonanza
Luke Harper
Cape Fear
Claude Kersek
Charley Varrick
Molly
Honey West
Rocky Hansen
Mud
King
GoldenEye
Jack Wade
The Natural
The Whammer
George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom
The Pack
Jerry
Ironside
The Outfit
Jack Cody
Fletch
Chief Jerry Karlin
Gunsmoke
Woody Stoner
The High Chaparral
Yuma