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Joe Don Baker

Acting Born Feb 12, 1936 Groesbeck, Texas, USA 24 credits

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

Film

Mulholland Drive

as Luke Harper

Ironside

1967

Mission: Impossible

as Frank Kearney
Film

Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris
Film

Mud

as King
Film

Cool Hand Luke

as Fixer

Full filmography

  • Bonanza (1959) as Luke Harper
  • Ironside (1967)
  • Mission: Impossible (1966) as Frank Kearney
  • Gunsmoke (1955) as Woody Stoner
  • Gunsmoke (1955) as Tom Butler
  • Screen Two (1985) as Hunter McCall
  • Mars Attacks! (1996) as Glenn Norris
  • The Big Valley (1965) as Tom Lightfoot
  • The High Chaparral (1967) as Yuma
  • The F.B.I. (1965) as Alex Drake
  • Honey West (1965) as Rocky Hansen
  • Lancer (1968)
  • Felony Squad (1966)
  • The Mod Squad (1968)
  • Cape Fear (1991) as Claude Kersek
  • Judd, for the Defense (1967)
  • GoldenEye (1995) as Jack Wade
  • The Outsider (1968) as Billy Joe Corey
  • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) as Wade
  • The Living Daylights (1987) as Brad Whitaker
  • Mud (2013) as King
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967) as Fixer
  • Congo (1995) as R.B. Travis
  • The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) as Governor Jim Applewhite