Joe Don Baker
57 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 12, 1936
- Died
- May 7, 2025 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Groesbeck, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- جو دان بیکر · Джо Дон Бейкер
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Joe Don Baker: movies and TV shows
Acting (80)
- 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
- 1998 Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
- 1997 Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
- 1997 George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
- 1997
- 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
- 1996
- 1996 Felony
as Donovan
- 1995 GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
- 1995 Congo
as R.B. Travis
- 1995 Panther
as Brimmer
- 1995 The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
- 1994 Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
- 1994 Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
- 1993 Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
- 1992 The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
- 1992 Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- 1991 Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
- 1990 The Children
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 The Abduction of Kari Swenson
as Sheriff Onstad
- 1986 Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
- 1985
- 1985 Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
- 1985
- 1984 Final Justice
as Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III
- 1984 The Natural
as The Whammer
- 1983 Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
- 1982 Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
- 1980
- 1979
- 1978 To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
- 1978
- 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 Golden Needles
as Dan Mason
- 1973 The Outfit
as Jack Cody
- 1973
- 1973 Charley Varrick
as Molly
- 1973 Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
- 1972 That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner
- 1972
- 1972 Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
- 1972 The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
- 1971 Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
as Danny
- 1971 Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash
- 1971 Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman
- 1970 Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin
- 1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967 Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1959
- 1955
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2007
- 2004
- 2000
- 2000