
Joe Don Baker
Acting
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

Bonanza
1959 · tv

Ironside
1967 · tv

Mission: Impossible
1966 · tv

The Big Valley
1965 · tv

The F.B.I.
1965 · tv

The High Chaparral
1967 · tv

Gunsmoke
1955 · tv

Felony Squad
1966 · tv

GoldenEye
1995 · movie

The Living Daylights
1987 · movie

Mars Attacks!
1996 · movie

Lancer
1968 · tv

Cool Hand Luke
1967 · movie

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · movie

Judd for the Defense
1967 · tv

The Mod Squad
1968 · tv

Honey West
1965 · tv

Mud
2013 · movie

The Outsider
1968 · tv

Cape Fear
1991 · movie

Reality Bites
1994 · movie

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · movie

Joe Dirt
2001 · movie

Congo
1995 · movie

Fletch
1985 · movie

Edge of Darkness
1985 · tv

Charley Varrick
1973 · movie

The Natural
1984 · movie

The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · movie

The Outfit
1973 · movie