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.
Filmography42 titles
Cool Hand Luke
Mission: Impossible
Bonanza
Cape Fear
Charley Varrick
Mud
GoldenEye
The Natural
Ironside
The Pack
The Outfit
The High Chaparral
Fletch
Gunsmoke
Framed
Walking Tall
Reality Bites
The Living Daylights
The Valachi Papers
Tomorrow Never Dies
Mars Attacks!
Speedtrap
The Big Valley
Wild Rovers
The Distinguished Gentleman
The Grass Harp
The Underneath
The Dukes of Hazzard
Joe Dirt
Congo
Criminal Law
The F.B.I.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Golden Needles
The Killing Time
Strange Wilderness
Adam at Six A.M.
The Shadow of Chikara
Joysticks
Mitchell
Leonard Part 6
Final Justice