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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.

Mud
as King

Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self

The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)

The Commission
as Rep. Hale Boggs

Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Vegas, City of Dreams
as Dylan Garrett

Inside The Living Daylights
as Self

Inside 'The Living Daylights'
as Self

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke
as Buck Duke

Poodle Springs
as P.J. Parker

Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade

George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom

George Wallace
as Big Jim Folsom

To Dance with Olivia
as Horace

Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris

The Grass Harp
as Sheriff Junius Candle

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence

The Siege at Ruby Ridge
as Gerry Spence

Felony
as Donovan

GoldenEye
as Jack Wade

Congo
as R.B. Travis

Panther
as Brimmer

The Underneath
as Clay Hinkle

Ring of Steel
as Man in Black

Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce

Complex of Fear
as Det. Frank Farrel

The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen

Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek

The Children
as Cliffe Wheater

Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel

Defrosting the Fridge
as Hunter McCall

Leonard Part 6
as Snyderburn

The Killing Time
as Carl Cunningham

The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker

The Abduction of Kari Swenson
as Sheriff Onstad

Getting Even
as King R. Kenderson

Edge of Darkness
as Darius Jedburgh

Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin

Screen Two
as Hunter McCall

Final Justice
as Geronimo

The Natural
as The Whammer

Joysticks
as Joseph Rutter

Wacko
as Dick Harbinger

Power
as Tommy Vanda

Eischied
as Earl Eischied

To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl M. Eischied

To Kill a Cop
as Chief Earl Eischied

The Pack
as Jerry

Speedtrap
as Pete Novick

The Shadow of Chikara
as Wishbone Cutter

Checkered Flag or Crash
as Walkaway Madden

Mitchell
as Mitchell

Framed
as Ron Lewis

Golden Needles
as Dan Mason

The Outfit
as Jack Cody

Doc Elliot
as Aaron Hickey

Charley Varrick
as Molly