Joe Don Baker
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
Mud
2013
as King
Strange Wilderness
2008
as Bill Calhoun
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Commission
2003
as Rep. Hale Boggs
Joe Dirt
2001
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Dylan Garrett
Inside The Living Daylights
2000
as Self
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
2000
as Self
Poodle Springs
1998
as P.J. Parker
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Wade
George Wallace
1997
as Big Jim Folsom
To Dance with Olivia
1997
as Horace
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Glenn Norris
The Grass Harp
1996
as Sheriff Junius Candle
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996
as Gerry Spence
Felony
1996
as Donovan
GoldenEye
1995
as Jack Wade
Congo
1995
as R.B. Travis
Panther
1995
as Brimmer
The Underneath
1995
as Clay Hinkle
Ring of Steel
1994
as Man in Black
Reality Bites
1994
as Tom Pierce