Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker (12 ga Fabrairu, 1936 - 7 ga Mayu, 2025) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Amurka, wanda aka san shi da yin wasan kwaikwayo na "mutum mai tauri" a ɓangarorin biyu na shari'a.  Ya kafa kansa a matsayin tauraron wasan kwaikwayo tare da rawar da ya taka a cikin Westerns Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) da Wild Rovers (1971), kafin ya zama babban jarumi a matsayin Sheriff na Tennessee Buford Pusser a cikin fim ɗin Walking Tall (1973).

A tsawon shekarun 1970 da 1980, Baker ya sami nasara wajen taka rawa a matsayin jagora da kuma mai tallafawa, ciki har da wani fitaccen ɗan wasan mafia a cikin Charley Varrick (1973), wani jami'in tsaro mai ƙarfi a cikin Mitchell (1975), fitaccen ɗan wasan ƙwallon baseball a cikin The Natural (1984), shugaban 'yan sanda a cikin barkwancin Chevy Chase Fletch (1985), da kuma wani mai bincike mai zaman kansa mai shakku a cikin fim ɗin Martin Scorsese na Cape Fear (1991). Ya kasance a cikin fina-finai uku na James Bond, a matsayin mugu da abokinsa, yana nuna Brad Whitaker a cikin The Living Daylights (1987) tare da Timothy Dalton, da kuma wakilin CIA Jack Wade a cikin GoldenEye (1995) da Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) tare da Pierce Brosnan .

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Baker a Groesbeck, Texas, ɗan Edna (née McDonald) da Doyle Charles Baker. An rene shi a hannun goggonsa Anna Thompson bayan rasuwar mahaifiyarsa lokacin yana ɗan shekara 12.  Ya buga ƙwallon kwando da ƙwallon ƙafa (a matsayin ɗan wasan baya da kuma kyaftin) a Makarantar Sakandare ta Groesbeck,  kuma ya halarci Kwalejin Jihar North Texas da ke Denton kan tallafin karatu a fannin wasanni, inda ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Sigma Phi Epsilon .  Ya kammala karatunsa da digirin farko na Gudanar da Kasuwanci a 1958. 

 Mutuwa 
Baker ya mutu sakamakon cutar kansar huhu a wani asibiti mai kula da marasa lafiya da ke Los Angeles, a ranar 7 ga Mayu, 2025, yana da shekaru 89.    An binne shi a Makabartar Oakwood Memorial Park . 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2025
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1936
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