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.
61 movies · 22 shows
Mud
2013·7.1
Strange Wilderness
2008·4.9
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007·0.0
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005·5.6
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004·8.0
The Commission
2003·4.5
Joe Dirt
2001·5.6
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001·3.4
Inside The Living Daylights
2000·8.0
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000·6.7
Poodle Springs
1998·5.5
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997·6.4
George Wallace
1997·6.8
To Dance with Olivia
1997·8.0
Mars Attacks!
1996·6.4
The Grass Harp
1996·5.9
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996·5.4
Felony
1996·4.8
GoldenEye
1995·6.9
Congo
1995·5.6
Panther
1995·6.3
The Underneath
1995·5.7
Ring of Steel
1994·4.9
Reality Bites
1994·6.5
Complex of Fear
1993·6.8
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992·6.0
Citizen Cohn
1992·6.3
Cape Fear
1991·7.3
The Children
1990·4.9
Criminal Law
1989·5.6
Defrosting the Fridge
1989·3.0
Leonard Part 6
1987·2.9
The Killing Time
1987·5.0
The Living Daylights
1987·6.5
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987·6.0
Getting Even
1986·3.4
Fletch
1985·6.7
Final Justice
1984·2.7
The Natural
1984·6.9
Joysticks
1983·4.5
Wacko
1982·5.1
To Kill a Cop
1978·0.0
The Pack
1977·6.8
Speedtrap
1977·6.3
The Shadow of Chikara
1977·4.6
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977·4.6
Mitchell
1975·3.3
Framed
1975·6.6
Golden Needles
1974·5.3
The Outfit
1973·6.8
Charley Varrick
1973·7.4
Walking Tall
1973·6.6
That Certain Summer
1972·6.6
Junior Bonner
1972·6.1
The Valachi Papers
1972·6.5
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971·4.8
Mongo's Back in Town
1971·6.1
Wild Rovers
1971·6.1
Adam at Six A.M.
1970·4.9
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969·5.4
Cool Hand Luke
1967·7.7