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.
Known for
Mud
2013 • King
Strange Wilderness
2008 • Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 • Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 • Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 • Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003 • Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001 • Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001 • Dylan Garrett
