Diarrhoea Another Day
The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Joe Don Baker – who as part of his long and storied career, played Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights and Jack Wade in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies – has died at age 89. 
A very fine character actor (and occasional leading man) in and out of the Bond seriesThe Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Joe Don Baker – who as part of his long and storied career, played Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights and Jack Wade in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies – has died at age 89.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Joe Don Baker – who as part of his long and storied career, played Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights and Jack Wade in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies – has died at age 89.
Mitchell!
Funny you mentioning Mitchell; I found the headline through an MST3K fan group on Facebook.
Is there any reason why he played Jack Wade, which, when I first saw Goldeneye in the theater, thought was an expy of Felix Leiter, and not Felix himself?
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I was actually wondering about this (and the same could probably be said of Michael Madsen’s DAD character). Best guess is that they didn’t want to ignore the events of LTK but maybe didn’t want to have a maimed Felix either.
Baker certainly had a quick resurrection in GOLDENEYE after kissing the statue in DAYLIGHTS. I assume he enjoyed his brief scenes so much, he wanted two less dangerous jobs.
Joe Don almost held his own against DeNiro's Max Cady in Scorsese's CAPE FEAR redo......and five years before was downright spectacular in the original British minseries EDGE OF DARKNESS. The theatrical version later casted the equally-impressive Ray Winstone in Baker's part. Danny Huston was the less imposing bad guy there, though he managed to beat the crap out of Winstone in THE PROPOSITION.
Joe Don almost held his own against DeNiro's Max Cady in Scorsese's CAPE FEAR redo......and five years before was downright spectacular in the original British minseries EDGE OF DARKNESS. The theatrical version later casted the equally-impressive Ray Winstone in Baker's part. Danny Huston was the less imposing bad guy there, though he managed to beat the crap out of Winstone in THE PROPOSITION.
I’ve always assumed also that the fact that Martin Campbell directed EOD helped him land the role in Goldeneye.
I remember Wade calling Bond "Jimbo" in TND, but don't remember "Jimmy." Guess I need to schedule a rewatch.
Great in many things. My favorite of his was probably the crooked cop in Fletch.
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