Biography
Joe Don Baker
Acting
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.
Career works
83
Movies
61
Series
22
Career average
6.1/10
Birth date
02/12/1936
Place of birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Date of death
05/07/2025
Filmography highlights
Movies
Mud
2013 · 7.1
Strange Wilderness
2008 · 4.9
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · 5.6
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · 8.0
The Commission
2003 · 4.5
Joe Dirt
2001 · 5.6
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · 3.4
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · 6.7
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · 8.0
Poodle Springs
1998 · 5.5
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · 6.4
George Wallace
1997 · 6.8
To Dance with Olivia
1997 · 8.0
Mars Attacks!
1996 · 6.4
Series
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · 5.5
George Wallace
1997 · 8.0
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
Edge of Darkness
1985 · 8.1
Screen Two
1985 · 7.1
Power
1980 · 7.0
Eischied
1979 · 7.0
To Kill a Cop
1978 · 8.0
Doc Elliot
1973 · 7.0
The Mod Squad
1968 · 6.1
Lancer
1968 · 5.6
The Outsider
1968 · 6.0
The High Chaparral
1967 · 6.8
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · 7.7
Ironside
1967 · 6.9