While never a particularly mainstream actor, Baker achieved brief fame from starring in the extremely popular 1973 film Walking Tall. Later, he was cast as CIA agent Jack Wade in the Bond film GoldenEye which was originally intended to be a recurring character in future Bond films, but in the end he only appeared in one more, Tomorrow Never Dies. In the 2014 RiffTrax video-on-demand title The Last Slumber Party, Mike comments on how one of the actors appears to be doing a rather successful first-time impression of Baker, due to resembling the actor somewhat.