Joe Don Baker
Birthday: 1936-02-12 | Place of Birth: Groesbeck, Texas, USAJoe 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.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2013
Mud
as King
2003
The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs
1999
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
as Buck Duke
1997
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom
1997
To Dance with Olivia
as Horace
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
1996
Felony
as Donovan
1996
The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle
1995
Panther
as Brimmer
1995
The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle
1995
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
1995
Congo
as R.B. Travis
1994
Ring of Steel
as Man in Black
1994
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
1993
Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel
1992
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
1992
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy
1991
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
1989
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
1989
Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall
1987
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
