Name
Walter Baldwin
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1889-01-01
Deathday
1977-01-27 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Lima, Ohio, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter S. Baldwin Jr. (January 2, 1889 − January 27, 1977) was a prolific character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances.
Baldwin was born in Lima, Ohio from a theatrical family and served in the First World War.
He was probably best known for playing the father of the handicapped sailor in The Best Years of Our Lives. He was the first actor to portray "Floyd the Barber" on The Andy Griffith Show.
Prior to his first film roles in 1939, Baldwin had appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays. He played Whit in the first Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, and also appeared in the original Grand Hotel in a small role, as well as serving as the production's stage manager. He originated the role of Bensinger, the prissy Chicago Tribune reporter, in the Broadway production of The Front Page.
In the 1960s he had small acting roles in television shows such as Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. He continued to act in motion pictures, and one of his last roles was in Rosemary's Baby.
Baldwin was known for playing solid middle class burghers, although sometimes he gave portrayals of eccentric characters. He played a customer seeking a prostitute in The Lost Weekend and the rebellious prison trusty Orvy in Cry of the City. Walter Baldwin was featured in a lot of John Deere Day Movies from 1949-59 where he played the farmer Tom Gordon. In this series of Deere Day movies over a decade he helped to introduce many new pieces of John Deere farm equipment year-by-year. In each yearly movie he would be shown on his in A Tom Gordon Family Film where he would be buying new John Deere farm equipment or a new green and yellow tractor.A picture of Walter Baldwin playing Tom Gordon can be found on page 108 of Bob Pripp's book John Deere Yesterday & Today
Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie: "With a pinched Midwestern countenance that enabled him to portray taciturn farmers, obsequious grocery store clerks and the occasional sniveling coward, Baldwin was a familiar (if often unbilled) presence in Hollywood films for three decades."
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- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives as Mr. Parrish
- 1948 Cry of the City as Orvy
- 1941 The Devil Commands as Seth Marcy
- 1942 Scattergood Rides High as Martin Knox
- 1951 The Racket as Sullivan
- 1950 Cheaper by the Dozen as Jim Bracken (uncredited)
- 1947 Framed as (uncredited)
- 1936 Peaceful Relations as Mr. Brown
- 1947 The Unsuspected as Judge Maynard
- 1955 Interrupted Melody as Jim Owens
- 1948 The Man from Colorado as Stagecoach driver
- 1948 Winter Meeting as Mr. Castle
- 1964 Cheyenne Autumn as Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
- 1943 After Midnight with Boston Blackie as Diamond Ed Barnaby
- 1950 The Jackpot as Watch Buyer (uncredited)
- 1941 Miss Polly as Lem Wiggins
- 1944 Dark Mountain as Uncle Sam Bates
- 1952 The Winning Team as Pa Alexander (uncredited)
- 1949 Special Agent as Pop Peters (uncredited)
- 1948 Return of the Bad Men as Muley Wilson
- 1943 A Stranger in Town as Tom Cooney
- 1951 I Want You as George Kress Sr.
- 1968 Rosemary's Baby as Mr. Wees (uncredited)
- 1953 Scandal at Scourie as Michael Hayward
- 1961 Wild in the Country as Mr. Spangler (uncredited)
- 1941 All That Money Can Buy as Hank (uncredited)
- 1956 The Fastest Gun Alive as Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited)
- 1956 The Harder They Fall as Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited)
- 1948 Hazard as Superintendent
- 1951 Rough Riders of Durango as Cricket Adams
- 1942 The Man Who Returned to Life as Homer-the Barber
- 1952 Carrie as Mr. Meeber - Carrie's Father
- 1939 The Secret of Dr. Kildare as Finch (uncredited)
- 1949 Come to the Stable as Claude Jarman (uncredited)
- 1945 The Lost Weekend as Man from Albany (uncredited)
- 1946 Dragonwyck as Tom Wilson (uncredited)
- 1946 Sister Kenny as Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
- 1949 Thieves' Highway as Officer Riley (uncredited)
- 1945 Why Girls Leave Home as Wilbur Harris
- 1955 Stranger on Horseback as Vince Webb
- 1945 Christmas in Connecticut as Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
- 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra as Amos Ames
- 1944 The Mark of the Whistler as Fireman (uncredited)
- 1949 The Gay Amigo as Editor Stoneham
- 1942 Syncopation
- 1944 Wilson as Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited)
- 1939 Those High Grey Walls as Mr. Mason (uncredited)
- 1940 Arizona as Man Who Declares for the South
- 1948 Rachel and the Stranger as Gallus
- 1943 Happy Land as Jake Hibbs (uncredited)
- 1940 Angels Over Broadway as Rennick (uncredited)
- 1941 Look Who's Laughing as Bill
- 1951 Storm Warning as Coroner Bledsoe
- 1940 Cafe Hostess as Jones
- 1944 Faces in the Fog as Doan, Jury Foreman
- 1945 Bring on the Girls as Henry (uncredited)
- 1945 Trail to Vengeance as Bart Jackson
- 1945 Rhythm Round-Up as Jed Morton
- 1948 Albuquerque as Judge Fred Martin
- 1941 They Died with Their Boots On as Settler (uncredited)
- 1943 The Kansan as Judge Lorrimer
- 1960 Oklahoma Territory as Ward Harlan
- 1942 The Incredible Stranger as Doctor Peabody (uncredited)
- 1946 The Bride Wore Boots as Mr. Hodges (uncredited)
- 1942 The Remarkable Andrew as Hugo French
- 1942 Powder Town as Jerry the Nitrate Technician (uncredited)
- 1954 Living It Up as Isaiah Jackson
- 1953 Ride, Vaquero! as Adam Smith
- 1943 Eyes Aloft as Pa
- 1943 Reconnaissance Pilot as George Newton
- 1954 Destry as Henry Skinner
- 1945 Murder, He Says as Vic Hardy (uncredited)
- 1944 Reckless Age as Music Conductor
- 1944 The Ghost That Walks Alone as Deputy Sheriff
- 1955 The Desperate Hours as George Patterson
- 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers as Dempsey (uncredited)
- 1956 Glory as Doc Brock
- 1944 I'm from Arkansas as Attorney
- 1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass as Doc Purdy
- 1942 In This Our Life as Worker (uncredited)
- 1946 Young Widow as Miller (Uncredited)
- 1956 You Can't Run Away from It as 1st Proprietor
- 1942 For Me and My Gal as Bill (uncredited)
- 1944 The Missing Juror as Town Sheriff (uncredited)
- 1945 Scared Stiff as Deputy with Rifle (Uncredited)
- 1954 The Long, Long Trailer as Uncle Edgar
- 1962 Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man as Conductor (uncredited)
- 1944 Tall in the Saddle as Stan - Depot Master (uncredited)
- 1944 Mr. Winkle Goes to War
- 1945 Blonde Ransom as Sheriff
- 1947 The Millerson Case as Link Hazen
- 1960 The Andy Griffith Show ( 1 episode ) as Floyd Lawson
- 1963 Petticoat Junction ( 9 episodes ) as Grandpappy Miller
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode ) as Luther
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Old Man
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Spivak
- 1954 Lassie ( 1 episode )
- 1970 Nanny and the Professor ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Weaver
- 1955 The Millionaire ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Frank Kenston
- 1965 My Mother the Car ( 1 episode )
- 1968 Lancer ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Dakotas ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Lawman ( 1 episode )
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Johnson
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Henry Clayburn
- 1957 Wagon Train ( 1 episode ) as Eddie Blake (uncredited)
- 1957 Casey Jones ( 1 episode ) as Conductor
- 1965 Green Acres ( 2 episodes ) as Grandpappy Miller
- 1955 Screen Director's Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Farmer Everett
- 1953 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Frontier ( 1 episode ) as Briggs
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Brinker
