About
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
Mud2013 · King
Strange Wilderness2008 · Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas2007 · Self
The Dukes of Hazzard2005 · Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Commission2003 · Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt2001 · Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams2001 · Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights2000 · Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'2000 · Self
Poodle Springs1998 · P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies1997 · Wade
George Wallace1997 · Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia1997 · Horace
Mars Attacks!1996 · Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp1996 · Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge1996 · Gerry Spence
Felony1996 · Donovan
GoldenEye1995 · Jack Wade
Congo1995 · R.B. Travis