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.
Acting · 83
Mud
2013
The Commission
2003
Joe Dirt
2001
Poodle Springs
1998
George Wallace
1997
George Wallace
1997
Mars Attacks!
1996
The Grass Harp
1996
Felony
1996
GoldenEye
1995
Congo
1995
Panther
1995
The Underneath
1995
Ring of Steel
1994
Reality Bites
1994
Complex of Fear
1993
Citizen Cohn
1992
Cape Fear
1991
The Children
1990
Criminal Law
1989
Leonard Part 6
1987
The Killing Time
1987
Getting Even
1986
Edge of Darkness
1985
Fletch
1985
Screen Two
1985
Final Justice
1984
The Natural
1984
Joysticks
1983
Wacko
1982
Power
1980
Eischied
1979
To Kill a Cop
1978
To Kill a Cop
1978
The Pack
1977
Speedtrap
1977
Mitchell
1975
Framed
1975
Golden Needles
1974
The Outfit
1973
Doc Elliot
1973
Charley Varrick
1973
Walking Tall
1973
Junior Bonner
1972
Wild Rovers
1971
Adam at Six A.M.
1970
The Mod Squad
1968
Lancer
1968
The Outsider
1968
Cool Hand Luke
1967
Ironside
1967
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
Honey West
1965
The Big Valley
1965
Bonanza
1959
Gunsmoke
1955