Joe Don Baker photo

Joe Don Baker

Acting

  • Born
  • February 12, 1936
  • 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.

As actor 84

Bonanza poster
Bonanza
1959
Ironside poster
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible poster
Mission: Impossible
1966
Screen Two poster
Screen Two
1985
Gunsmoke poster
Gunsmoke
1955
The F.B.I. poster
The F.B.I.
1965
The Big Valley poster
The Big Valley
1965
The High Chaparral poster
The High Chaparral
1967
The Streets of San Francisco poster
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Cape Fear poster
Cape Fear
1991
The Mod Squad poster
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad poster
Felony Squad
1966
Mars Attacks! poster
Mars Attacks!
1996
Lancer poster
Lancer
1968
GoldenEye poster
GoldenEye
1995
Honey West poster
Honey West
1965
Tomorrow Never Dies poster
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Judd, for the Defense poster
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Outsider poster
The Outsider
1968
The Living Daylights poster
The Living Daylights
1987
Cool Hand Luke poster
Cool Hand Luke
1967
The Dukes of Hazzard poster
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Joe Dirt poster
Joe Dirt
2001
Congo poster
Congo
1995
Edge of Darkness poster
Edge of Darkness
1985
Mud poster
Mud
2013
The Natural poster
The Natural
1984
Reality Bites poster
Reality Bites
1994
The Distinguished Gentleman poster
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Doc Elliot poster
Doc Elliot
1973
Walking Tall poster
Walking Tall
1973
Fletch poster
Fletch
1985
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke poster
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
Power poster
Power
1980
George Wallace poster
George Wallace
1997
The Outfit poster
The Outfit
1973
Charley Varrick poster
Charley Varrick
1973
Guns of the Magnificent Seven poster
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
Eischied poster
Eischied
1979
Panther poster
Panther
1995
The Valachi Papers poster
The Valachi Papers
1972
Criminal Law poster
Criminal Law
1989
The Siege at Ruby Ridge poster
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Strange Wilderness poster
Strange Wilderness
2008
Poodle Springs poster
Poodle Springs
1998
The Grass Harp poster
The Grass Harp
1996
Joysticks poster
Joysticks
1983
To Kill a Cop poster
To Kill a Cop
1978
The Abduction of Kari Swenson poster
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987
The Pack poster
The Pack
1977
Junior Bonner poster
Junior Bonner
1972
Wild Rovers poster
Wild Rovers
1971
The Siege at Ruby Ridge poster
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Speedtrap poster
Speedtrap
1977
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas poster
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Leonard Part 6 poster
Leonard Part 6
1987
George Wallace poster
George Wallace
1997
The Underneath poster
The Underneath
1995
Wacko poster
Wacko
1982
Citizen Cohn poster
Citizen Cohn
1992
Getting Even poster
Getting Even
1986
That Certain Summer poster
That Certain Summer
1972
The Killing Time poster
The Killing Time
1987
Inside The Living Daylights poster
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
Mitchell poster
Mitchell
1975
Checkered Flag or Crash poster
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys poster
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971
Framed poster
Framed
1975
Inside 'The Living Daylights' poster
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
Golden Needles poster
Golden Needles
1974
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade poster
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
The Children poster
The Children
1990
To Dance with Olivia poster
To Dance with Olivia
1997
The Shadow of Chikara poster
The Shadow of Chikara
1977
Vegas, City of Dreams poster
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
The Commission poster
The Commission
2003
Felony poster
Felony
1996
Complex of Fear poster
Complex of Fear
1993
Mongo's Back in Town poster
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
To Kill a Cop poster
To Kill a Cop
1978
Adam at Six A.M. poster
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
Ring of Steel poster
Ring of Steel
1994
Final Justice poster
Final Justice
1984
Defrosting the Fridge poster
Defrosting the Fridge
1989