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.

Known For

The Dukes of Hazzard 2005 ★ 5.6
Joe Dirt 2001 ★ 5.6
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 ★ 6.4
Mars Attacks! 1996 ★ 6.4
GoldenEye 1995 ★ 6.9
Congo 1995 ★ 5.6
Cape Fear 1991 ★ 7.3
The Living Daylights 1987 ★ 6.5
Screen Two 1985 ★ 7.1
The Streets of San Francisco 1972 ★ 7.0
The Mod Squad 1968 ★ 6.1
Lancer 1968 ★ 5.6
The Outsider 1968 ★ 6.0
Ironside 1967 ★ 6.9
The High Chaparral 1967 ★ 6.8
Judd, for the Defense 1967 ★ 7.7
Cool Hand Luke 1967 ★ 7.7
Mission: Impossible 1966 ★ 7.6
Felony Squad 1966 ★ 6.5
The Big Valley 1965 ★ 6.2
The F.B.I. 1965 ★ 5.6
Honey West 1965 ★ 7.2
Bonanza 1959 ★ 7.5
Gunsmoke 1955 ★ 6.7