FrameThrower · Actors · Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker
6 films · 362 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1973–1997
Born 12 February 1936 · Groesbeck, Texas, USA · died 7 May 2025
Joe Don Baker 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.
How their films are shot
Measured across 362 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Joe takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 362 frames from Joe Don Baker's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.