Actor
Joe Don Baker
February 12, 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA
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.
Notable work
6.4Mars Attacks! (1996)
as Glenn Norris
6.9GoldenEye (1995)
as Jack Wade
7.3Cape Fear (1991)
as Claude Kersek
6.4Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
as Wade
7.1Mud (2013)
as King
6.5The Living Daylights (1987)
as Brad Whitaker
7.7Cool Hand Luke (1967)
as Fixer
5.6The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
as Governor Jim Applewhite
5.6Congo (1995)
as R.B. Travis
5.6Joe Dirt (2001)
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
6.5Reality Bites (1994)
as Tom Pierce
6.7Fletch (1985)
as Chief Jerry Karlin
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