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Joe Don Baker

Born 1936-02-12

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 · 7.2 Cape Fear 1991 · 7.3 Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 · 6.5 Mud 2013 · 7.3 The Living Daylights 1987 · 6.7 The Dukes of Hazzard 2005 · 5.1 Fletch 1985 · 6.9 The Natural 1984 · 7.4 Reality Bites 1994 · 6.6 Congo 1995 · 5.3 Strange Wilderness 2008 · 5.2 The Distinguished Gentleman 1992 · 5.9 Charley Varrick 1973 · 7.5 Leonard Part 6 1987 · 2.2 Walking Tall 1973 · 6.9 The Outfit 1973 · 7.0 Mitchell 1975 · 2.8 Criminal Law 1989 · 5.7 The Underneath 1995 · 6.1 Guns of the Magnificent Seven 1969 · 5.7 Joysticks 1983 · 4.5 Panther 1995 · 6.4 Wacko 1982 · 4.9 The Pack 1977 · 5.9 Golden Needles 1974 · 5.1 Checkered Flag or Crash 1977 · 4.6