Actor

Joe Don Baker

55 credited titles on WatchWise

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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Strongest genre

Biggest hit

Standout efficiency

Walking Tall · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$236M

Combined reported budget

$78M

Gross / budget

3.0x

Bankability Index

42 / 100

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