Joe Don Baker

★ Acting #1,772

1936 - 2025 (age 89) • Acting

Born: 2/12/1936 in Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Died: 5/7/2025 (age 89)

Known for: Acting

Joe Don Baker

★ Acting #1,772

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

GoldenEye

69%

Jack Wade

1995

Cape Fear

73%

Claude Kersek

1991

Tomorrow Never Dies

64%

Wade

1997

The Living Daylights

66%

Brad Whitaker

1987

Congo

56%

R.B. Travis

1995

Fletch

68%

Chief Jerry Karlin

1985

Bonanza

75%

Luke Harper

1959

The Distinguished Gentleman

60%

Olaf Andersen

1992

Mud

71%

King

2013

Strange Wilderness

49%

Bill Calhoun

2008

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Self

2007

The Dukes of Hazzard

56%

Governor Jim Applewhite

2005

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

80%

Self (archive footage)

2004

The Commission

45%

Rep. Hale Boggs

2003

Joe Dirt

57%

Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

2001

Vegas, City of Dreams

34%

Dylan Garrett

2001

Inside The Living Daylights

80%

Self

2000

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

67%

Self

2000

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

55%

Buck Duke

1999

Poodle Springs

55%

P.J. Parker

1998

Tomorrow Never Dies

64%

Wade

1997

George Wallace

68%

Big Jim Folsom

1997

George Wallace

70%

Big Jim Folsom

1997

To Dance with Olivia

80%

Horace

1997

Mars Attacks!

64%

Glenn Norris

1996

The Grass Harp

59%

Sheriff Junius Candle

1996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

54%

Gerry Spence

1996

Felony

48%

Donovan

1996

GoldenEye

69%

Jack Wade

1995

Congo

56%

R.B. Travis

1995

Panther

63%

Brimmer

1995

The Underneath

57%

Clay Hinkle

1995

Ring of Steel

49%

Man in Black

1994

Reality Bites

65%

Tom Pierce

1994

Complex of Fear

68%

Det. Frank Farrel

1993

The Distinguished Gentleman

60%

Olaf Andersen

1992