Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1936-02-12
Day of Death
2025-05-07
Place of Birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Joe Don Baker
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.
Filmography (61)
⭐ 7.1
Role:
King
Mud
2013
⭐ 4.9
Role:
Bill Calhoun
Strange Wilderness
2008
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
⭐ 5.6
Role:
Governor Jim Applewhite
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
⭐ 8.0
Role:
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
⭐ 4.5
Role:
Rep. Hale Boggs
The Commission
2003
⭐ 5.6
Role:
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Joe Dirt
2001
⭐ 3.4
Role:
Dylan Garrett
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
⭐ 8.0
Role:
Self
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
⭐ 6.7
Role:
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
⭐ 5.5
Role:
P.J. Parker
Poodle Springs
1998
⭐ 6.4
Role:
Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
⭐ 6.8
Role:
Big Jim Folsom
George Wallace
1997
⭐ 8.0
Role:
Horace
To Dance with Olivia
1997
⭐ 6.4
Role:
Glenn Norris
