
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

1959
Bonanza
1959 · tv

1967
Ironside
1967 · tv

1966
Mission: Impossible
1966 · tv

1965
The F.B.I.
1965 · tv

1965
The Big Valley
1965 · tv

1967
The High Chaparral
1967 · tv

1985
Screen Two
1985 · tv

1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · tv

1966
Felony Squad
1966 · tv

1968
Lancer
1968 · tv

1968
The Mod Squad
1968 · tv

1965
Honey West
1965 · tv

1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · tv

1995
GoldenEye
1995 · movie

1996
Mars Attacks!
1996 · movie

1968
The Outsider
1968 · tv

2013
Mud
2013 · movie

1991
Cape Fear
1991 · movie

1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · movie

1967
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · movie

1987
The Living Daylights
1987 · movie

1995
Congo
1995 · movie

1994
Reality Bites
1994 · movie

1979
Eischied
1979 · tv

2005
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · movie

1973
Doc Elliot
1973 · tv

1985
Edge of Darkness
1985 · tv

2001
Joe Dirt
2001 · movie

1985
Fletch
1985 · movie

1999
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · tv