Joe Don Baker
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as Jack Wade GoldenEye 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
Mars Attacks!
as Glenn Norris
GoldenEye
as Jack Wade
Cape Fear
as Claude Kersek
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Wade
Mud
as King
The Living Daylights
as Brad Whitaker
Cool Hand Luke
as Fixer
The Dukes of Hazzard
as Governor Jim Applewhite
Congo
as R.B. Travis
Joe Dirt
as Don, Brandy's Dad (uncredited)
Reality Bites
as Tom Pierce
Fletch
as Chief Jerry Karlin
The Natural
as The Whammer
The Distinguished Gentleman
as Olaf Andersen
Charley Varrick
as Molly
Strange Wilderness
as Bill Calhoun
Walking Tall
as Buford Pusser
Criminal Law
as Detective Mesel
Junior Bonner
as Curly Bonner
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
as Slater