Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

12/02/1936

Day of Death

07/05/2025
(89) years old

Place of Birth

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2013

Mud

as King

2008

Strange Wilderness

as Bill Calhoun

2005

The Dukes of Hazzard

as Governor Jim Applewhite

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollyw...

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Commission

as Rep. Hale Boggs

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Jack Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

Joe Dirt

as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

2001

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Dylan Garrett

1998

Poodle Springs

as P.J. Parker

1997

George Wallace

as Big Jim Folsom

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

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

Abduction

as Sheriff Onstad

1986

Getting Even

as King R. Kenderson

1985

Fletch

as Chief Jerry Karlin

1984

Final Justice

as Geronimo

1984

The Natural

as The Whammer

1983

Joysticks

as Joseph Rutter

1982

Wacko

as Dick Harbinger

1980

Power

as Tommy Vanda

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

Golden Needles

as Dan Mason

1973

The Outfit

as Cody

1973

Charley Varrick

as Molly

1973

Walking Tall

as Buford Pusser

1972

That Certain Summer

as Phil Bonner

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

Wild Rovers

as Paul Buckman

1970

Adam at Six A.M.

as Harvey Gavin

1967

Cool Hand Luke

as Fixer