
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.
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The Abduction of Kari Swenson

The Outfit

Poodle Springs

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

Junior Bonner

Criminal Law

Adam at Six A.M.

Checkered Flag or Crash

Joysticks

Strange Wilderness

The Grass Harp

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

George Wallace

Wild Rovers

The Underneath

The Pack

Framed

Citizen Cohn

To Kill a Cop

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

The Shadow of Chikara

Wacko

Mitchell

Leonard Part 6

Vegas, City of Dreams

Final Justice

The Killing Time

Golden Needles

Mongo's Back in Town

That Certain Summer

Ring of Steel

The Children

Getting Even

Inside The Living Daylights

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

Complex of Fear

Speedtrap

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

To Dance with Olivia

Felony

Defrosting the Fridge









































