Joe Don Baker
Born February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
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The Underneath
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Strange Wilderness
Charley Varrick
The Grass Harp
To Kill a Cop
The Outfit
Panther
The Pack
Joysticks
Wild Rovers
Golden Needles
Junior Bonner
Leonard Part 6
George Wallace
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Getting Even
The Shadow of Chikara
Wacko
To Dance with Olivia
Mongo's Back in Town
Speedtrap
Vegas, City of Dreams
Citizen Cohn
Framed
The Killing Time
Felony
Adam at Six A.M.
Ring of Steel
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Mitchell
That Certain Summer
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Defrosting the Fridge
Inside The Living Daylights
Checkered Flag or Crash
Final Justice
Complex of Fear
The Children
