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