Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Known for

Acting

Born

February 12, 1936

Birthplace

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Died

May 7, 2025 (aged 89)

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.

Best known work

Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks!

1996

GoldenEye

GoldenEye

1995

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997

Mud

Mud

2013

The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights

1987

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005

Congo

Congo

1995

Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt

2001

Filmography

2013
Mud
as King
2008
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2005
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
2001
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
2000
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
2000
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self
1999
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeTV
as Buck Duke (4 episodes)
1998
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
1997
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
George WallaceTV
as Big Jim Folsom (2 episodes)
1997
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
1996
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
1996
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
1996
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
1996
The Siege at Ruby RidgeTV
as Gerry Spence (2 episodes)
1996
Felony
as Donovan
1995
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
1995
Congo
as R.B. Travis
1995
Panther
as Brimmer
1995
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle