Joe Don Baker

Actor

Born: February 12, 1936 (89 years old)

Died: May 7, 2025

Place of birth: 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.

Filmography (61)

• Cool Hand Luke (1967, ★ 7.7)
• Cape Fear (1991, ★ 7.3)
• GoldenEye (1995, ★ 6.9)
• The Natural (1984, ★ 6.9)
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004, ★ 7.8)
• Edge of Darkness (1985, ★ 8.1)
• Fletch (1985, ★ 6.7)
• The Outfit (1973, ★ 6.8)
• Charley Varrick (1973, ★ 7.3)
• George Wallace (1997, ★ 6.8)
• The Pack (1977, ★ 6.8)
• Mud (2013, ★ 7.1)
• Gunsmoke (1955, ★ 6.7)
• Ironside (1967, ★ 6.8)
• The High Chaparral (1967, ★ 6.7)
• Honey West (1965, ★ 7.1)
• Bonanza (1959, ★ 7.5)
• Mission: Impossible (1966, ★ 7.6)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997, ★ 6.4)
• The Living Daylights (1987, ★ 6.5)
• The Distinguished Gentleman (1992, ★ 6)
• Reality Bites (1994, ★ 6.6)
• Walking Tall (1973, ★ 6.6)
• Congo (1995, ★ 5.6)
• Junior Bonner (1972, ★ 6.1)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005, ★ 5.6)
• Framed (1975, ★ 6.5)
• That Certain Summer (1972, ★ 6.5)
• Complex of Fear (1993, ★ 6.4)
• Mars Attacks! (1996, ★ 6.4)