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.
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Joe Don Baker — movies and TV shows
7.5SeriesBonanza
1959
6.8SeriesIronside
1967
7.6SeriesMission: Impossible
1966
5.6SeriesThe F.B.I.
1965
6.2SeriesThe Big Valley
1965
7.1SeriesScreen Two
1985
6.8SeriesThe High Chaparral
1967
6.7SeriesGunsmoke
1955
7.1SeriesThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.3FilmCape Fear
1991
6.5SeriesFelony Squad
1966
6.9FilmGoldenEye
1995
6.1SeriesThe Mod Squad
1968
5.6SeriesLancer
1968
7.7SeriesJudd, for the Defense
1967
6.4FilmTomorrow Never Dies
1997
6.6FilmThe Living Daylights
1987
7.2SeriesHoney West
1965
6.5FilmReality Bites
1994
5.6FilmCriminal Law
1989
6.4FilmMars Attacks!
1996
6.0SeriesThe Outsider
1968
7.7FilmCool Hand Luke
1967
5.7FilmJoe Dirt
2001
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5.6FilmCongo
1995
5.6FilmThe Dukes of Hazzard
2005
6.8FilmFletch
1985
6.0FilmThe Distinguished Gentleman
1992
6.9FilmThe Natural
1984
5.4FilmGuns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
5.9FilmThe Grass Harp
1996
8.1SeriesEdge of Darkness
1985
6.7FilmThe Outfit
1973
7.0SeriesDoc Elliot
1973
7.1FilmMud
2013
6.1FilmJunior Bonner
1972
5.5SeriesToo Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999
7.0SeriesEischied
1979
7.4FilmCharley Varrick
1973
6.1FilmWild Rovers
1971
6.6FilmWalking Tall
1973
4.5FilmJoysticks
1983
5.7FilmThe Underneath
1995
7.0SeriesPower
1980
5.4FilmThe Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
SeriesThe Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
4.9FilmStrange Wilderness
2008
8.0SeriesTo Kill a Cop
1978
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