Joe Don Baker

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.

Cast

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

The Living Daylights

Tomorrow Never Dies

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Dukes of Hazzard

Governor Jim Applewhite

The Killing Time

Carl Cunningham

Chief Jerry Karlin

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Charley Varrick

Strange Wilderness

Detective Mesel

The Shadow of Chikara

Wishbone Cutter

Sheriff Junius Candle

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

King R. Kenderson

Adam at Six A.M.

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

That Certain Summer

Checkered Flag or Crash

Walkaway Madden

Mongo's Back in Town

Defrosting the Fridge

Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Complex of Fear

Det. Frank Farrel

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

To Dance with Olivia

Inside The Living Daylights

Vegas, City of Dreams

The Valachi Papers

Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

Rep. Hale Boggs

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

Chief Earl M. Eischied