
Cast
Joe Don Baker
Acting
Cast
Joe Don Baker
Known for
Acting
Born
1936-02-12
From
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Died
2025-05-07
Also known as جو دان بیکر, Джо Дон Бейкер
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.

GoldenEye
as Jack Wade

Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris

Mud
as King

Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade

Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer

Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek

The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker

Congo
as R.B. Travis

Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce

The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite

Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin

The Outfit
as Jack Cody

Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser

The Natural
as The Whammer

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater

The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle

The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen

Final Justice
as Geronimo

Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter

Speedtrap
as Pete Novick

The Children
as Cliffe Wheater

Panther
as Brimmer

The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Charley Varrick
as Molly

Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun

Framed
as Ron Lewis

The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs

Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Golden Needles
as Dan Mason

George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self

The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle

Wacko
as Dick Harbinger

Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel

Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence

Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn

To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied

Mitchell
as Mitchell

Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker

Felony
as Donovan

Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson

That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner

The Pack
as Jerry

Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel

Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman

The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham

Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin

Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett

Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden

Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash

Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall

Inside The Living Daylights
as Self

To Dance with Olivia
as Horace

Ring of Steel
as Man in Black

The Abduction of Kari Swenson
as Sheriff Onstad

The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
as Danny