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Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Actor · 1936–2025 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA

IMDb

Highest rated as cast or director

Joe Don Baker's 5 titles from the 1970s have a median Balasaur Score of 68, led by The Outfit (74) and Junior Bonner (72), against 57 for those from the 1990s.

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.

Acted in 80

2010s

  1. 2013

2000s

  1. 2008

    Strange Wilderness

    Bill Calhoun

  2. 2005
  3. 2003

    The Commission

    Rep. Hale Boggs

  4. 2001
  5. Vegas, City of Dreams

    Dylan Garrett

1990s

  1. 1999

    Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

    Buck Duke · 4 episodes

  2. 1998
  3. 1997
  4. George Wallace

    Big Jim Folsom

  5. George Wallace

    Big Jim Folsom · 2 episodes

  6. To Dance with Olivia

    Horace

  7. 1996
  8. The Siege at Ruby Ridge

    Gerry Spence

  9. Felony

    Donovan

  10. 1995
  11. The Underneath

    Clay Hinkle

  12. 1994

    Ring of Steel

    Man in Black

  13. 1993

    Complex of Fear

    Det. Frank Farrel

  14. 1992
  15. Citizen Cohn

    Sen. Joseph McCarthy

  16. 1991
  17. 1990

    The Children

    Cliffe Wheater

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. Defrosting the Fridge

    Hunter McCall

  3. 1987

    Leonard Part 6

    Snyderburn

  4. 1986

    Getting Even

    King R. Kenderson

  5. 1985

    Edge of Darkness

    Darius Jedburgh · 6 episodes

  6. 1984
  7. 1983
  8. 1982

    Wacko

    Dick Harbinger

  9. 1980

    Power

    Tommy Vanda · 2 episodes

1970s

  1. 1979

    Eischied

    Earl Eischied · 13 episodes

  2. 1978

    To Kill a Cop

    Chief Earl M. Eischied

  3. To Kill a Cop

    Chief Earl Eischied · 2 episodes

  4. 1977

    The Pack

    Jerry

  5. Checkered Flag or Crash

    Walkaway Madden

  6. 1975
  7. Framed

    Ron Lewis

  8. 1974

    Golden Needles

    Dan Mason

  9. 1973
  10. Doc Elliot

    Aaron Hickey · 1 episode

  11. Charley Varrick

    Molly

  12. 1972

    That Certain Summer

    Phil Bonner

  13. 1971

    Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

    Danny

  14. Mongo's Back in Town

    Mongo Nash

  15. 1970

    Adam at Six A.M.

    Harvey Gavin

Appearances4

2000s

  1. 2007

    The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

    Self

  2. 2004

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2000

    Inside The Living Daylights

    Self

  4. Inside 'The Living Daylights'

    Self