
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.
TV Shows(23)

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
Buck Duke

George Wallace
Big Jim Folsom

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
Gerry Spence

Screen Two
Hunter McCall

Edge of Darkness
Darius Jedburgh

Power
Tommy Vanda

Eischied
Earl Eischied

To Kill a Cop
Chief Earl Eischied

Doc Elliot
Aaron Hickey

The Mod Squad

Lancer

The Outsider
Billy Joe Corey

Ironside

The High Chaparral
Yuma

Judd, for the Defense

Felony Squad

Mission: Impossible
Frank Kearney

The F.B.I.
Alex Drake

The Big Valley
Tom Lightfoot

Honey West
Rocky Hansen