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Joe Don Baker
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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.
Known For

Bonanza
1959

Mission: Impossible
1966

Ironside
1967

The Big Valley
1965

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997

Mud
2013

GoldenEye
1995

Mars Attacks!
1996

The Living Daylights
1987

Cape Fear
1991

The Natural
1984

Cool Hand Luke
1967

Congo
1995

Joe Dirt
2001

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005

Reality Bites
1994

Walking Tall
1973

Fletch
1985

Strange Wilderness
2008

The Valachi Papers
1972

Criminal Law
1989

The Distinguished Gentleman
1992

The Underneath
1995

Charley Varrick
1973

The Outfit
1973

Leonard Part 6
1987

Joysticks
1983

Guns of the Magnificent Seven
1969
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