
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.

Bonanza
TV • 1959

Ironside
TV • 1967

Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965

The Big Valley
TV • 1965

Honey West
TV • 1965

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955

The High Chaparral
TV • 1967

Felony Squad
TV • 1966

Lancer
TV • 1968

The Mod Squad
TV • 1968

Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967

The Outsider
TV • 1968

GoldenEye
MOVIE • 1995

The Natural
MOVIE • 1984

Tomorrow Never Dies
MOVIE • 1997

Mars Attacks!
MOVIE • 1996