Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker.

Joe Don Baker (b February 12, 1936) is an American film actor perhaps best known for his role as sheriff “Buford Pusser” in the American film classic Walking Tall.

In 1987, Baker got the role of the villain Brad Whitaker in the Bond film The Living Daylights. In 1995 and 1997 Baker returned to the series, this time playing a different character, the slovenly and dim-witted CIA agent Jack Wade, in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. He is one of six actors to have played two separate roles in the official James Bond cinema series, preceded by Charles Gray, Walter Gotell, Jeremy Bulloch, Maud Adams, and Robert Brown. Baker is one of only two actors to appear as both a Bond ally and a villain, the other being Charles Grey who appeared as Henderson in You Only Live Twice and as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.