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Joe Don Baker
Acting
87 known credits
1.5 popularity score 89 years
Biography
About 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.
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Joe Don Baker across film and television
84credited titles
61movie credits
23TV credits
1967–2013screen career span
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