Born February 12, 1936
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
82 credits
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.
Bonanza
1959 · ★ 7.5
Mission: Impossible
1966 · ★ 7.6
Ironside
1967 · ★ 6.9
The Big Valley
1965 · ★ 6.2
The F.B.I.
1965 · ★ 5.5
The High Chaparral
1967 · ★ 6.8
Gunsmoke
1955 · ★ 6.7
The Mod Squad
1968 · ★ 6.0
Felony Squad
1966 · ★ 6.5
GoldenEye
1995 · ★ 6.9
Lancer
1968 · ★ 5.6
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · ★ 7.7
Mars Attacks!
1996 · ★ 6.4
Mud
2013 · ★ 7.1
Honey West
1965 · ★ 7.2
Cape Fear
1991 · ★ 7.3
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · ★ 6.4
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · ★ 5.6
Joe Dirt
2001 · ★ 5.6
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · ★ 7.7
The Outsider
1968 · ★ 6.0
The Living Daylights
1987 · ★ 6.5
Congo
1995 · ★ 5.6
The Natural
1984 · ★ 6.9
Edge of Darkness
1985 · ★ 8.1
Walking Tall
1973 · ★ 6.6
Fletch
1985 · ★ 6.8
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · ★ 5.5
Reality Bites
1994 · ★ 6.6
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · ★ 5.3
Doc Elliot
1973 · ★ 7.0
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · ★ 6.0
Charley Varrick
1973 · ★ 7.4
Eischied
1979 · ★ 7.0
Strange Wilderness
2008 · ★ 4.9
The Outfit
1973 · ★ 6.8
Criminal Law
1989 · ★ 5.6
The Grass Harp
1996 · ★ 5.9
The Valachi Papers
1972 · ★ 6.5
George Wallace
1997 · ★ 6.8
The Underneath
1995 · ★ 5.7
Panther
1995 · ★ 6.3
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · ★ 0.0
To Kill a Cop
1978 · ★ 8.0
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · ★ 5.4
Felony
1996 · ★ 4.8
Joysticks
1983 · ★ 4.6
Citizen Cohn
1992 · ★ 6.3
Poodle Springs
1998 · ★ 5.5
Wild Rovers
1971 · ★ 6.1
To Kill a Cop
1978 · ★ 0.0
Leonard Part 6
1987 · ★ 2.9
George Wallace
1997 · ★ 8.0
The Killing Time
1987 · ★ 5.0
The Pack
1977 · ★ 6.8
Mitchell
1975 · ★ 3.3
Junior Bonner
1972 · ★ 6.1
Power
1980 · ★ 7.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · ★ 8.0
Ring of Steel
1994 · ★ 5.1
Wacko
1982 · ★ 5.1
Inside The Living Daylights
2000 · ★ 8.0
Framed
1975 · ★ 6.6
Mongo's Back in Town
1971 · ★ 5.9
Adam at Six A.M.
1970 · ★ 4.9
The Shadow of Chikara
1977 · ★ 4.6
Golden Needles
1974 · ★ 5.3
Getting Even
1986 · ★ 3.4
Speedtrap
1977 · ★ 6.3
Final Justice
1984 · ★ 2.7
To Dance with Olivia
1997 · ★ 8.0
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · ★ 6.0
The Commission
2003 · ★ 4.5
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000 · ★ 6.7
Complex of Fear
1993 · ★ 6.8
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · ★ 3.4
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971 · ★ 4.8
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · ★ 0.0
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977 · ★ 4.6
The Children
1990 · ★ 4.9
That Certain Summer
1972 · ★ 6.6
Defrosting the Fridge
1989 · ★ 3.0