Born in Groesbeck, Texas, USA — Feb 12 1936• Died May 07 2025

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.
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Luke Harper

Frank Kearney

Alex Drake


Tom Lightfoot

Yuma


Woody Stoner




Rocky Hansen

Jack Wade

Billy Joe Corey

Claude Kersek

Wade

Brad Whitaker

Glenn Norris

Governor Jim Applewhite

R.B. Travis

Earl Eischied

The Whammer

King

Darius Jedburgh

Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)

Buck Duke

Fixer

Tom Pierce

Aaron Hickey

Molly

Chief Jerry Karlin

Olaf Andersen

Slater

Buford Pusser

P.J. Parker

Brimmer

Jack Cody

Big Jim Folsom

Irish member of Valachi gang (uncredited)

Snyderburn

Mitchell

Paul Buckman

Self (archive footage)

Detective Mesel

Tommy Vanda

Sheriff Junius Candle

Clay Hinkle

Big Jim Folsom

Self

Pete Novick

Bill Calhoun

Chief Earl M. Eischied

Curly Bonner

Gerry Spence

King R. Kenderson

Dan Mason

Dick Harbinger

Man in Black

Geronimo

Joseph Rutter

Phil Bonner

Ron Lewis

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Chief Earl Eischied

Horace

Det. Frank Farrel

Donovan

Harvey Gavin

Sheriff Onstad

Jerry

Walkaway Madden

Wishbone Cutter

Hunter McCall

Rep. Hale Boggs

Carl Cunningham

Cliffe Wheater

Self

Mongo Nash

Self

Danny

Dylan Garrett