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Joe Don Baker

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Joe Don Baker

Feb 12, 1936 – May 7, 202584 titles 61 movies · 23 TV
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Biography

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.

Also known as

جو دان بیکر · Джо Дон Бейкер

Born

Feb 12, 1936 – May 7, 2025

Groesbeck, Texas, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

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Career timeline

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