About:
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
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  Cool Hand Luke
  as
  Fixer
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  The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
  as
  Self
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  Cape Fear
  as
  Claude Kersek
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  The Living Daylights
  as
  Brad Whitaker
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  GoldenEye
  as
  Jack Wade