Joe Don Baker

Biography

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

Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris

GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Wade

Mud

as King

The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

Cool Hand Luke

as Fixer

The Dukes of Hazzard

as Governor Jim Applewhite

Congo

as R.B. Travis

Reality Bites

as Tom Pierce