Personal Info
Birthday
February 12, 1936
Place of Birth
Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (83)
7.1
Mud
Movie2013
4.9
Strange Wilderness
Movie2008
0.0
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie2007
5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard
Movie2005
8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie2004
No Backdrop
4.5
The Commission
Movie2003
5.6
Joe Dirt
Movie2001
No Backdrop
3.4
Vegas, City of Dreams
Movie2001
No Backdrop
8.0
Inside The Living Daylights
Movie2000
No Backdrop
6.7
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Movie2000
5.5
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
TV Series1999
5.5
Poodle Springs
Movie1998
6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie1997
6.8
George Wallace
Movie1997
No Backdrop
7.0
George Wallace
TV Series1997
No Backdrop
8.0
To Dance with Olivia
Movie1997
6.4
Mars Attacks!
Movie1996
5.9
The Grass Harp
Movie1996
5.4
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Movie1996
0.0
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
TV Series1996
4.8
Felony
Movie1996
6.9
GoldenEye
Movie1995
5.6
Congo
Movie1995
6.3
Panther
Movie1995
5.7
The Underneath
Movie1995
No Backdrop
5.1
Ring of Steel
Movie1994
6.5
Reality Bites
Movie1994
6.8
Complex of Fear
Movie1993
6.0
The Distinguished Gentleman
Movie1992
6.3
Citizen Cohn
Movie1992
7.3
Cape Fear
Movie1991
No Backdrop
4.9
The Children
Movie1990
5.6
Criminal Law
Movie1989
No Backdrop
3.0
Defrosting the Fridge
Movie1989
2.9
Leonard Part 6
Movie1987
5.0
The Killing Time
Movie1987
6.5
The Living Daylights
Movie1987
6.0
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
Movie1987
3.4
Getting Even
Movie1986
8.1
Edge of Darkness
TV Series1985
6.7
Fletch
Movie1985
7.1
Screen Two
TV Series1985
2.7
Final Justice
Movie1984
6.9
The Natural
Movie1984
4.5
Joysticks
Movie1983
5.1
Wacko
Movie1982
No Backdrop
7.0
Power
TV Series1980
7.0
Eischied
TV Series1979
No Backdrop
0.0
To Kill a Cop
Movie1978
No Backdrop
8.0
To Kill a Cop
TV Series1978
6.8
The Pack
Movie1977
6.3
Speedtrap
Movie1977
4.6
The Shadow of Chikara
Movie1977
4.6
Checkered Flag or Crash
Movie1977
3.3
Mitchell
Movie1975
6.6
Framed
Movie1975
5.3
Golden Needles
Movie1974
6.8
The Outfit
Movie1973
No Backdrop
7.0
Doc Elliot
TV Series1973
7.4
Charley Varrick
Movie1973
6.6
Walking Tall
Movie1973
6.6
That Certain Summer
Movie1972
6.1
Junior Bonner
Movie1972
6.5
The Valachi Papers
Movie1972
4.8
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Movie1971
6.1
Mongo's Back in Town
Movie1971
6.1
Wild Rovers
Movie1971
4.9
Adam at Six A.M.
Movie1970
5.4
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Movie1969
6.1
The Mod Squad
TV Series1968
5.6
Lancer
TV Series1968
6.0
The Outsider
TV Series1968
7.7
Cool Hand Luke
Movie1967
6.8
The High Chaparral
TV Series1967
7.7
Judd, for the Defense
TV Series1967
6.9
Ironside
TV Series1967
7.6
Mission: Impossible
TV Series1966
No Backdrop
6.5
Felony Squad
TV Series1966
5.6
The F.B.I.
TV Series1965
7.2
Honey West
TV Series1965
6.2
The Big Valley
TV Series1965
7.5
Bonanza
TV Series1959
6.7
Gunsmoke
TV Series1955