Joe Don Baker
1936-02-12 (1936)Groesbeck, Texas, USAActing
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.
Known For
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Ironside
TV • 1967
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Honey West
TV • 1965
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Lancer
TV • 1968
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The Outsider
TV • 1968
GoldenEye
MOVIE • 1995
The Natural
MOVIE • 1984
Tomorrow Never Dies
MOVIE • 1997
Mars Attacks!
MOVIE • 1996