Joe Don Baker
Actor
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.
Filmography
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade 1995
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek 1991
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade 1997
Mud
as King 2013
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker 1987
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer 1967
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite 2005
Congo
as R.B. Travis 1995
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce 1994
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited) 2001
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin 1985
The Natural
as The Whammer 1984
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen 1992
Charley Varrick
as Molly 1973
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun 2008
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser 1973