Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1936-02-12
- Day of Death2025-05-07 (89 years)
- Place of BirthGroesbeck, Texas, USA
- Also Known Asجو دان بیکرДжо Дон Бейкер
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.
Acting Career
- 2013
Mud
As: King
- 2008
Strange Wilderness
As: Bill Calhoun
- 2005
The Dukes of Hazzard
As: Governor Jim Applewhite
- 2003
The Commission
As: Rep. Hale Boggs
- 2001
Joe Dirt
As: Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
- 2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
As: Dylan Garrett
- 1999
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
As: Buck Duke
- 1998
Poodle Springs
As: P.J. Parker
- 1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
As: Wade
1997George Wallace
As: Big Jim Folsom
1997George Wallace
As: Big Jim Folsom
1997To Dance with Olivia
As: Horace
- 1996
Mars Attacks!
As: Glenn Norris
1996The Grass Harp
As: Sheriff Junius Candle
1996The Siege at Ruby Ridge
As: Gerry Spence
- 1995
GoldenEye
As: Jack Wade
1995Congo
As: R.B. Travis
1995Panther
As: Brimmer
1995The Underneath
As: Clay Hinkle
1994Felony
As: Donovan
1994Ring of Steel
As: Man in Black
1994Reality Bites
As: Tom Pierce
1993Complex of Fear
As: Det. Frank Farrel
1992The Distinguished Gentleman
As: Olaf Andersen
1992Citizen Cohn
As: Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- 1991
Cape Fear
As: Claude Kersek
1990The Children
As: Cliffe Wheater
1989Criminal Law
As: Detective Mesel
1989Defrosting the Fridge
As: Hunter McCall
1987Leonard Part 6
As: Snyderburn
1987The Killing Time
As: Carl Cunningham
1987The Living Daylights
As: Brad Whitaker
1987Abduction
As: Sheriff Onstad
1986Getting Even
As: King R. Kenderson
1985Edge of Darkness
As: Darius Jedburgh
1985Fletch
As: Chief Jerry Karlin
1984Final Justice
As: Geronimo
1984The Natural
As: The Whammer
1983Joysticks
As: Joseph Rutter
1982Wacko
As: Dick Harbinger
1980Power
As: Tommy Vanda
1979Eischied
As: Earl Eischied
1978To Kill a Cop
As: Chief Earl M. Eischied
- 1978
To Kill a Cop
As: Chief Earl Eischied
1977The Pack
As: Jerry
1977Speedtrap
As: Pete Novick
1977The Shadow of Chikara
As: Wishbone Cutter
1977Checkered Flag or Crash
As: Walkaway Madden
1975Mitchell
As: Mitchell
1975Framed
As: Ron Lewis
1974Golden Needles
As: Dan Mason
1973The Outfit
As: Cody
1973Doc Elliot
As: Aaron Hickey
1973Charley Varrick
As: Molly
1973Walking Tall
As: Buford Pusser
1972That Certain Summer
As: Phil Bonner
1972Junior Bonner
As: Curly Bonner
1972The Valachi Papers
As: Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1971Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
As: Danny
1971Mongo's Back in Town
As: Mongo Nash
1971Wild Rovers
As: Paul Buckman
1970Adam at Six A.M.
As: Harvey Gavin
1969Guns of the Magnificent Seven
As: Slater
1968The Outsider
As: Billy Joe Corey
1967Cool Hand Luke
As: Fixer
1967The High Chaparral
As: Yuma
1965The F.B.I.
As: Alex Drake
1965Honey West
As: Rocky Hansen
1965The Big Valley
As: Tom Lightfoot
1959Bonanza
As: Luke Harper
1955Gunsmoke
As: Woody Stoner
- 1955
Gunsmoke
As: Tom Butler