Joe Don Baker
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.
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.
Known For
Cast Credits
Mud
as King
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett
Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
Congo
as R.B. Travis
Panther
as Brimmer
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
Felony
as Donovan
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
The Children
as Cliffe Wheater
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn
The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker