Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Died May 7, 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
Filmography
Mud
2013 · King
Strange Wilderness
2008 · Bill Calhoun
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Governor Jim Applewhite
Joe Dirt
2001 · Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Poodle Springs
1998 · P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Wade
George Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
The Grass Harp
1996 · Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
1995 · Jack Wade
Congo
1995 · R.B. Travis
Panther
1995 · Brimmer
The Underneath
1995 · Clay Hinkle
Reality Bites
1994 · Tom Pierce
Ring of Steel
1994 · Man in Black
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
1991 · Claude Kersek
Criminal Law
1989 · Detective Mesel
The Living Daylights
1987 · Brad Whitaker
Leonard Part 6
1987 · Snyderburn
The Killing Time
1987 · Carl Cunningham
Fletch
1985 · Chief Jerry Karlin
The Natural
1984 · The Whammer
Final Justice
1984 · Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
Joysticks
1983 · Joseph Rutter
Wacko
1982 · Dick Harbinger
The Shadow of Chikara
1977 · Wishbone Cutter
The Pack
1977 · Jerry
Mitchell
1975 · Mitchell
Framed
1975 · Ron Lewis
Golden Needles
1974 · Dan Mason
Walking Tall
1973 · Buford Pusser
The Outfit
1973 · Jack Cody
Charley Varrick
1973 · Molly
Junior Bonner
1972 · Curly Bonner
That Certain Summer
1972 · Phil Bonner
The Valachi Papers
1972 · Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Wild Rovers
1971 · Paul Buckman
Adam at Six A.M.
1970 · Harvey Gavin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · Slater
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Fixer