Joe Don Baker
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1936-02-12 – 2025-05-07
Place of birth: Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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.
Known for
Cool Hand Luke
1967Fixer
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007Self
Cape Fear
1991Claude Kersek
The Living Daylights
1987Brad Whitaker
GoldenEye
1995Jack Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997Wade
Poodle Springs
1998P.J. Parker
Congo
1995R.B. Travis
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992Olaf Andersen
Reality Bites
1994Tom Pierce
Junior Bonner
1972Curly Bonner
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005Governor Jim Applewhite
The Natural
1984The Whammer
Leonard Part 6
1987Snyderburn
The Killing Time
1987Carl Cunningham
Walking Tall
1973Buford Pusser
Mitchell
1975Mitchell
Fletch
1985Chief Jerry Karlin
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969Slater