Acting
Joe Don Baker
EN cinema · 61 credits
Born
12 February 1936
Died
7 May 2025 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Also known as جو دان بیکر · Джо Дон Бейкер
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
Filmography
Mud
as King
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
Felony
as Donovan
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
Congo
as R.B. Travis
Panther
as Brimmer
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
as Sheriff Onstad
Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
The Natural
as The Whammer
Final Justice
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter
Speedtrap
as Pete Novick
The Pack
as Jerry
Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden
Mitchell
as Mitchell
Framed
as Ron Lewis
Golden Needles
as Dan Mason
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
The Outfit
as Jack Cody
Charley Varrick
as Molly
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner
The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman
Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash
Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer