Joe Don Baker

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 81

Gender Male

Birthday February 12, 1936

Day of Death May 7, 2025 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Groesbeck, Texas, USA

Also Known As

جو دان بیکر
Джо Дон Бейкер

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Joe Don Baker

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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

Acting

2013

as King

2008

as Bill Calhoun

2007

as Self

2005

as Governor Jim Applewhite

2004

as Self (archive footage)

2003

as Rep. Hale Boggs

2002

as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

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

4 episodes as Buck Duke

1998

as P.J. Parker

1997		Tomorrow Never Dies as Wade
1997		George Wallace as Big Jim Folsom
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

1995		GoldenEye as Jack Wade
1995		Congo as R.B. Travis
1995		Panther as Brimmer
1995		The Underneath as Clay Hinkle

1994		Felony as Donovan
1994		Ring of Steel as Man in Black
1994		Reality Bites as Tom Pierce

1993

as Det. Frank Farrel

1992		The Distinguished Gentleman as Olaf Andersen
1992		Citizen Cohn as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

1991

as Claude Kersek

1990

as Cliffe Wheater

1989		Criminal Law as Detective Mesel
1989		Defrosting the Fridge as Hunter McCall

1987		Leonard Part 6 as Snyderburn
1987		The Killing Time as Carl Cunningham
1987		The Living Daylights as Brad Whitaker
1987		Abduction as Sheriff Onstad

1986

as King R. Kenderson

1985		Edge of Darkness 6 episodes as Darius Jedburgh
1985		Fletch as Chief Jerry Karlin

1984		Final Justice as Geronimo
1984		The Natural as The Whammer

1983

as Joseph Rutter

1982

as Dick Harbinger

1980

as Tommy Vanda

1979

13 episodes as Earl Eischied

1978		To Kill a Cop 2 episodes as Chief Earl Eischied
1978		To Kill a Cop as Chief Earl M. Eischied

1977		The Pack as Jerry
1977		Speedtrap as Pete Novick
1977		The Shadow of Chikara as Wishbone Cutter
1977		Checkered Flag or Crash as Walkaway Madden

1975		Mitchell as Mitchell
1975		Framed as Ron Lewis

1974

as Dan Mason

1973		The Outfit as Cody
1973		Charley Varrick as Molly
1973		Doc Elliot 1 episode as Aaron Hickey
1973		Walking Tall as Buford Pusser

1972		That Certain Summer as Phil Bonner
1972		Ironside 1 episode
1972		Junior Bonner as Curly Bonner
1972		The Valachi Papers as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

1971		Mongo's Back in Town as Mongo Nash
1971		Welcome Home, Soldier Boys as Danny
1971		Mission: Impossible 1 episode
1971		Wild Rovers as Paul Buckman
1971		The High Chaparral 1 episode as Yuma

1970		Adam at Six A.M. as Harvey Gavin
1970		The F.B.I. 1 episode as Alex Drake

1969		The Mod Squad 1 episode
1969		Guns of the Magnificent Seven as Slater
1969		The Big Valley 1 episode as Tom Lightfoot
1969		Gunsmoke 1 episode as Tom Butler

1968		The Outsider 1 episode as Billy Joe Corey
1968		Bonanza 1 episode as Luke Harper
1968		Lancer 3 episodes

1967		Felony Squad 1 episode
1967		Cool Hand Luke as Fixer
1967		Judd for the Defense 1 episode

1966

1 episode as Woody Stoner

1965

1 episode as Rocky Hansen

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