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

★6.4

Mars Attacks!

1996

★6.9

GoldenEye

1995

★7.3

Cape Fear

1991

★6.4

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997

★7.1

Mud

2013

★6.6

The Living Daylights

1987

★7.7

Cool Hand Luke

1967

★5.6

The Dukes of Hazzard

2005

★5.6

Congo

1995

★5.7

Joe Dirt

2001

★6.5

Reality Bites

1994

★6.8

Fletch

1985

★6.9

The Natural

1984

★7.5

Bonanza

1959

★6.0

The Distinguished Gentleman

1992

★7.6

Mission: Impossible

1966

★7.4

Charley Varrick

1973

★4.9

Strange Wilderness

2008

★6.6

Walking Tall

1973

★5.6

Criminal Law

1989

★5.4

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1969

★6.1

Junior Bonner

1972

★6.5

The Valachi Papers

1972

★6.7

Gunsmoke

1955