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Joe Don Baker

Actor

Joe Don Baker

12 February 1936† 7 May 2025 (aged 89) Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Movies
61
Shows
23

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.

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Known For

Mars Attacks!

6.41996

GoldenEye

6.91995

Cape Fear

7.31991

Tomorrow Never Dies

6.41997

Mud

7.12013

The Living Daylights

6.61987

Cool Hand Luke

7.71967

The Dukes of Hazzard

5.62005

Congo

5.61995

Joe Dirt

5.72001

Reality Bites

6.51994

Fletch

6.81985

The Natural

6.91984

Bonanza

7.51959

The Distinguished Gentleman

6.01992

Mission: Impossible

7.61966

Charley Varrick

7.41973

Strange Wilderness

4.92008

Walking Tall

6.61973

Criminal Law

5.61989

Mud

7.12013

Strange Wilderness

4.92008

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

The Dukes of Hazzard

5.62005

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

8.02004

The Commission

4.52003

Joe Dirt

5.72001

Vegas, City of Dreams

3.42001

Inside The Living Daylights

8.02000

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

6.72000

Poodle Springs

5.51998

Tomorrow Never Dies

6.41997

George Wallace

6.81997

To Dance with Olivia

8.01997

Mars Attacks!

6.41996

The Grass Harp

5.91996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

5.41996

Felony

4.81996

GoldenEye

6.91995

Congo

5.61995

Panther

6.31995

The Underneath

5.71995

Ring of Steel

4.91994

Reality Bites

6.51994

Complex of Fear

6.81993

The Distinguished Gentleman

6.01992

Citizen Cohn

6.31992

Cape Fear

7.31991

The Children

4.91990

Criminal Law

5.61989

Defrosting the Fridge

3.01989

Leonard Part 6

2.91987

The Killing Time

5.01987

The Living Daylights

6.61987

The Abduction of Kari Swenson

6.01987

Getting Even

3.41986

Fletch

6.81985

Final Justice

2.71984

The Natural

6.91984

Joysticks

4.51983

Wacko

5.11982

To Kill a Cop

1978

The Pack

6.71977

Speedtrap

6.31977

The Shadow of Chikara

4.61977

Checkered Flag or Crash

4.61977

Mitchell

3.31975

Framed

6.61975

Golden Needles

5.31974

The Outfit

6.71973

Charley Varrick

7.41973

Walking Tall

6.61973

That Certain Summer

6.61972

Junior Bonner

6.11972

The Valachi Papers

6.51972

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

5.21971

Mongo's Back in Town

6.11971

Wild Rovers

6.11971

Adam at Six A.M.

4.91970

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

5.41969