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.
Filmography
Edge of Darkness
1985 · 8.1
To Kill a Cop
1978 · 8.0
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · 7.7
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · 7.7
Mission: Impossible
1966 · 7.6
Bonanza
1959 · 7.5
Charley Varrick
1973 · 7.4
Cape Fear
1991 · 7.3
Honey West
1965 · 7.2
Screen Two
1985 · 7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · 7.1
Mud
2013 · 7.1
Power
1980 · 7.0
Eischied
1979 · 7.0
Doc Elliot
1973 · 7.0
GoldenEye
1995 · 6.9
The Natural
1984 · 6.9
Ironside
1967 · 6.8
The Outfit
1973 · 6.8
George Wallace
1997 · 6.8
Complex of Fear
1993 · 6.8
Fletch
1985 · 6.7
The High Chaparral
1967 · 6.7
Gunsmoke
1955 · 6.7
George Wallace
1997 · 6.7
Walking Tall
1973 · 6.6
The Pack
1977 · 6.6
Framed
1975 · 6.6
That Certain Summer
1972 · 6.6
The Living Daylights
1987 · 6.6
Felony Squad
1966 · 6.5
Reality Bites
1994 · 6.5
The Valachi Papers
1972 · 6.5
Mars Attacks!
1996 · 6.4
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · 6.4
Panther
1995 · 6.3
Speedtrap
1977 · 6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992 · 6.3
The Big Valley
1965 · 6.2
The Mod Squad
1968 · 6.1
Junior Bonner
1972 · 6.1
Wild Rovers
1971 · 6.1
Mongo's Back in Town
1971 · 6.1
The Outsider
1968 · 6.0
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · 6.0
The Grass Harp
1996 · 5.9
The Underneath
1995 · 5.7
Congo
1995 · 5.6
The F.B.I.
1965 · 5.6
Lancer
1968 · 5.6
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · 5.6
Joe Dirt
2001 · 5.6
Criminal Law
1989 · 5.6
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
1999 · 5.5
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969 · 5.4
Poodle Springs
1998 · 5.4
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · 5.4
Golden Needles
1974 · 5.3
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971 · 5.2
Wacko
1982 · 5.1
The Killing Time
1987 · 5.0
Strange Wilderness
2008 · 4.9
Adam at Six A.M.
1970 · 4.9
The Children
1990 · 4.9
Ring of Steel
1994 · 4.9
Felony
1996 · 4.8
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977 · 4.6
The Shadow of Chikara
1977 · 4.6
Joysticks
1983 · 4.5
The Commission
2003 · 4.5
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 · 3.4
Getting Even
1986 · 3.4
Mitchell
1975 · 3.3
Leonard Part 6
1987 · 2.8
Final Justice
1984 · 2.7
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996 · 0.0
To Kill a Cop
1978 · 0.0