Joe Don Baker
Known for ActingBorn 1936-02-12 — died 2025-05-07Groesbeck, 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.
Known for
GoldenEye
1995 · as Jack Wade
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997 · as Wade
Joe Dirt
2001 · as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Cape Fear
1991 · as Claude Kersek
Mars Attacks!
1996 · as Glenn Norris
Mud
2013 · as King
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · as Fixer
The Living Daylights
1987 · as Brad Whitaker
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · as Governor Jim Applewhite
The Natural
1984 · as The Whammer
Congo
1995 · as R.B. Travis
Reality Bites
1994 · as Tom Pierce
Panther
1995 · as Brimmer
Walking Tall
1973 · as Buford Pusser
Poodle Springs
1998 · as P.J. Parker
The Valachi Papers
1972 · as Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)
Fletch
1985 · as Chief Jerry Karlin
The Pack
1977 · as Jerry