
Joe Don Baker
Acting
Born 1936-02-12 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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

7.0
Eischied
1979 · TV

8.1
Edge of Darkness
1985 · TV

5.5
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · TV

5.6
Lancer
1968 · TV

7.5
Bonanza
1959 · TV

8.0
George Wallace
1997 · TV

8.0
To Kill a Cop
1978 · TV

7.0
Power
1980 · TV

6.9
Ironside
1967 · TV

7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966 · TV

6.2
The Big Valley
1965 · TV

5.5
The F.B.I.
1965 · TV

6.8
The High Chaparral
1967 · TV

7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · TV

6.7
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · TV

7.2
Honey West
1965 · TV

6.5
Felony Squad
1966 · TV

6.0
The Mod Squad
1968 · TV

6.0
The Outsider
1968 · TV

7.0
Doc Elliot
1973 · TV