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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 12, 1936
Died
May 7, 2025
Place of Birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- جو دان بیکر
- Джо Дон Бейкер
Joe Don Baker
1.1 Popularity
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
7.1
King
Mud
2013
4.9
Bill Calhoun
Strange Wilderness
2008
0.0
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
5.6
Governor Jim Applewhite
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
1.0
Rep. Hale Boggs
The Commission
2003
5.6
Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Joe Dirt
2001
2.0
Dylan Garrett
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
8.0
Self
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
6.2
Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
Credits
Mud
as King
2013
7.1
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
2008
4.9
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
0.0
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
2005
5.6
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.8
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
2003
1.0
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
2001
5.6
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
2001
2.0
Inside The Living Daylights
as Self
2000
8.0
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self
2000
6.2
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
as Buck Duke
1999
2.0
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
1998
5.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
1997
6.4
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
0.0
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
6.8
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
1997
0.0
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
1996
6.4
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
1996
5.8
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
1996
5.1
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
1995
6.9
Congo
as R.B. Travis
1995
5.6
Panther
as Brimmer
1995
6.2
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
1995
5.7
Felony
as Donovan
1994
4.2
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
1994
4.8
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
1994
6.6
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
1993
6.4
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
1992
6.0
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1992
6.0
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
1991
7.3
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
1990
3.8
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
1989
5.5
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
1989
1.0
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
1987
2.7
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
1987
4.9
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
1987
6.5
Abduction
as Sheriff Onstad
1987
5.5
Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson
1986
2.4
Edge of Darkness
as Darius Jedburgh
1985
8.1
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
1985
6.7
Final Justice
as Geronimo
1984
2.5
The Natural
as The Whammer
1984
6.9
Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter
1983
4.5
Wacko
as Dick Harbinger
1982
5.0
Power
as Tommy Vanda
1980
2.0
Eischied
as Earl Eischied
1979
6.0
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl Eischied
1978
0.0
To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied
1978
0.0
The Pack
as Jerry
1977
6.8
Speedtrap
as Pete Novick
1977
5.5
The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter
1977
4.4
Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden
1977
4.0
Mitchell
as Mitchell
1975
3.2
Framed
as Ron Lewis
1975
6.6
Golden Needles
as Dan Mason
1974
4.7
The Outfit
as Jack Cody
1973
6.8
Doc Elliot
as Aaron Hickey
1973
0.0
Charley Varrick
as Molly
1973
7.3
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
1973
6.6
That Certain Summer
as Phil Bonner
1972
6.5
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
1972
6.1
The Valachi Papers
as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
1972
6.5
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
as Danny
1971
3.0
Mongo's Back in Town
as Mongo Nash
1971
4.8
Wild Rovers
as Paul Buckman
1971
6.2
Adam at Six A.M.
as Harvey Gavin
1970
4.5
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater
1969
5.3
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Lancer
1968
4.7
The Outsider
as Billy Joe Corey
1968
5.2
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer
1967
7.7
The High Chaparral
as Yuma
1967
6.6
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Ironside
1967
6.8
Mission: Impossible
1966
7.6
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The F.B.I.
as Alex Drake
1965
5.4
Honey West
as Rocky Hansen
1965
7.0
The Big Valley
as Tom Lightfoot
1965
6.1
Bonanza
as Luke Harper
1959
7.5
Gunsmoke
as Woody Stoner
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Tom Butler
1955
6.6