Joe Don Baker

    Known For

    Acting

    Birthday

    February 12, 1936

    Day of Death

    May 7, 2025 (89 years old)

    Place of Birth

    Groesbeck, Texas, USA

    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.

    Known For

    • Mars Attacks!

      Mars Attacks!

      1996

    • GoldenEye

      GoldenEye

      1995

    • Cape Fear

      Cape Fear

      1991

    • Tomorrow Never Dies

      Tomorrow Never Dies

      1997

    • Mud

      Mud

      2013

    • The Living Daylights

      The Living Daylights

      1987

    • Cool Hand Luke

      Cool Hand Luke

      1967

    • The Dukes of Hazzard

      The Dukes of Hazzard

      2005

    • Congo

      Congo

      1995

    • Reality Bites

      Reality Bites

      1994

    • Joe Dirt

      Joe Dirt

      2001

    • Fletch

      Fletch

      1985

    • The Natural

      The Natural

      1984

    • Bonanza

      Bonanza

      1959

    • The Distinguished Gentleman

      The Distinguished Gentleman

      1992