Joe Don Baker
Date of birth: 1936-02-12
Place of birth: Groesbeck, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: جو دان بیکر, Джо Дон Бейкер
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.
Movie Credits
Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007-02-03
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra
Cape Fear
1991-11-13
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,
The Living Daylights
1987-06-29
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigne
GoldenEye
1995-11-16
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former all
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997-12-11
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against eac
Poodle Springs
1998-07-25
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Congo
1995-06-09
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa, wher
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992-12-04
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just
Reality Bites
1994-02-18
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about li
Junior Bonner
1972-07-21
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005-08-05
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running U
The Natural
1984-05-11
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take
Leonard Part 6
1987-12-18
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His
The Killing Time
1987-10-23
After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small Californ
Walking Tall
1973-02-22
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles wit
Mitchell
1975-09-10
A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an an
Fletch
1985-05-31
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug tra
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969-07-14
When Quintero, a Mexican revolutionary leader, is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Dia
The Outfit
1973-10-19
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time cr
Joysticks
1983-03-04
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental h
Charley Varrick
1973-09-19
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amoun
Strange Wilderness
2008-02-01
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search
Criminal Law
1989-04-28
Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile m
Wild Rovers
1971-06-23
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods
George Wallace
1997-08-24
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor
Framed
1975-08-01
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system le
The Shadow of Chikara
1977-07-15
Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a nativ
The Grass Harp
1996-10-11
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi
Ring of Steel
1994-03-30
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the f
Citizen Cohn
1992-08-22
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p
Speedtrap
1977-09-01
After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve t
Wacko
1982-11-12
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and o
The Pack
1977-11-20
The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remna
Getting Even
1986-02-21
A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be
Adam at Six A.M.
1970-09-22
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's d
Mud
2013-04-26
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reuni
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
1971-12-10
Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.
That Certain Summer
1972-11-01
The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor
Checkered Flag or Crash
1977-05-21
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from c
Golden Needles
1974-07-17
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points i
Mongo's Back in Town
1971-12-10
Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
Felony
1994-10-19
A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of
Defrosting the Fridge
1989-03-26
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and p
The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987-03-08
Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain
Joe Dirt
2001-04-10
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that h
Complex of Fear
1993-01-12
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally r
Panther
1995-05-03
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996-05-19
A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of
To Dance with Olivia
1997-03-09
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged wi
The Underneath
1995-04-28
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and
Mars Attacks!
1996-12-13
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if
The Children
1990-05-18
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe
Inside The Living Daylights
2000-10-17
The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001-04-01
When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as
The Valachi Papers
1972-01-06
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000-10-17
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"
The Commission
2003-11-07
Using transcripts from the Warren Commission Report, this film documents the workings of the Warren
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004-07-25
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist
To Kill a Cop
1978-04-10
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying
Final Justice
1984-10-28
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rura