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Joe Don Baker

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.

Filmography

1997
Tomorrow Never Dies

as Wade

Movie
1996
Mars Attacks!

as Glenn Norris

Movie
1995
GoldenEye

as Jack Wade

Movie
1991
Cape Fear

as Claude Kersek

Movie
1987
The Living Daylights

as Brad Whitaker

Movie
1969
Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Slater

Movie