24 Actors That Played Two Different Characters In James Bond Movies

4. Joe Don Baker

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American character actor Joe Don Baker is another actor who's acted on both sides of the good/evil spectrum in the Bond movies.

In The Living Daylights, Baker played the film's (thoroughly underwhelming) American villain, Brad Whittaker, an arms dealer who is working with a Russian general in a thoroughly convoluted scheme to sell some opium and finance his operations.

He played a far less annoying character (in more ways than one) in Goldeneye: CIA agent Jack Wade, who's also going after the criminal syndicate Janus. Baker reprised this role very briefly in the next film, Tomorrow Never Dies; Wade helps Bond by giving him the means to do a Halo jump into the ocean in order to investigate a ship-wreck.

 
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