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.

Joe Don Baker

Acting Born February 12, 1936 – Died May 7, 2025 Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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

Bonanza

Luke Harper

Ironside

Eric Blair

Mission: Impossible

Frank Kearney

The F.B.I.

Alex Drake

The Big Valley

Tom Lightfoot

Screen Two

Hunter McCall

The High Chaparral

Yuma

Gunsmoke

Woody Stoner

Gunsmoke

Tom Butler

The Streets of San Francisco

Leonard Collier Cord

Cape Fear

Claude Kersek

Felony Squad

Shep Taubs