Actor
Joe Don Baker
90 years · Groesbeck, Texas, USA · 61 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 61
Mud
2013 · King
On Kanopy
Strange Wilderness
2008 · Bill Calhoun
On Hoopla
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003 · Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001 · Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · Self
Poodle Springs
1998 · P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · Wade
On Amazon Prime Video
George Wallace
1997 · Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997 · Horace
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Glenn Norris
On Plex
The Grass Harp
1996 · Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · Gerry Spence
Felony
1996 · Donovan
GoldenEye
1995 · Jack Wade
On Amazon Prime Video
Congo
1995 · R.B. Travis
On fuboTV
Panther
1995 · Brimmer
The Underneath
1995 · Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel
1994 · Man in Black
Reality Bites
1994 · Tom Pierce
On Amazon Prime Video