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Joe Don Baker

Acting · Born 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.

Movies with Joe Don Baker

• The Living Daylights (1987) — Brad Whitaker
• Mars Attacks! (1996) — Glenn Norris
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) — Wade
• GoldenEye (1995) — Jack Wade
• Cape Fear (1991) — Claude Kersek
• Cool Hand Luke (1967) — Fixer
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) — Governor Jim Applewhite
• Joe Dirt (2001) — Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
• Congo (1995) — R.B. Travis
• Mud (2013) — King
• The Natural (1984) — The Whammer
• Reality Bites (1994) — Tom Pierce

TV shows with Joe Don Baker

• Edge of Darkness (1985) — Darius Jedburgh
• Eischied (1979) — Earl Eischied