Walter Baldwin
Acting • Born 1889-01-01 – Died 1977-01-27
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."
Filmography
111 credits
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Mr. Parrish
Cry of the City
Movie • 1948
Orvy
The Devil Commands
Movie • 1941
Seth Marcy
Scattergood Rides High
Movie • 1942
Martin Knox
The Racket
Movie • 1951
Sullivan
Cheaper by the Dozen
Movie • 1950
Jim Bracken (uncredited)
Framed
Movie • 1947
(uncredited)
Peaceful Relations
Movie • 1936
Mr. Brown
The Unsuspected
Movie • 1947
Judge Maynard
Interrupted Melody
Movie • 1955
Jim Owens
The Man from Colorado
Movie • 1948
Stagecoach driver
Winter Meeting
Movie • 1948
Mr. Castle
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Movie • 1943
Diamond Ed Barnaby
The Jackpot
Movie • 1950
Watch Buyer (uncredited)
Miss Polly
Movie • 1941
Lem Wiggins
Dark Mountain
Movie • 1944
Uncle Sam Bates
The Winning Team
Movie • 1952
Pa Alexander (uncredited)
Special Agent
Movie • 1949
Pop Peters (uncredited)
Return of the Bad Men
Movie • 1948
Muley Wilson
A Stranger in Town
Movie • 1943
Tom Cooney
I Want You
Movie • 1951
George Kress Sr.
Rosemary's Baby
Movie • 1968
Mr. Wees (uncredited)
Scandal at Scourie
Movie • 1953
Michael Hayward
Wild in the Country
Movie • 1961
Mr. Spangler (uncredited)
All That Money Can Buy
Movie • 1941
Hank (uncredited)
The Fastest Gun Alive
Movie • 1956
Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited)
The Harder They Fall
Movie • 1956
Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited)
Hazard
Movie • 1948
Superintendent
Rough Riders of Durango
Movie • 1951
Cricket Adams
The Man Who Returned to Life
Movie • 1942
Homer-the Barber
Carrie
Movie • 1952
Mr. Meeber - Carrie's Father
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Movie • 1939
Finch (uncredited)
Come to the Stable
Movie • 1949
Claude Jarman (uncredited)
The Lost Weekend
Movie • 1945
Man from Albany (uncredited)
Dragonwyck
Movie • 1946
Tom Wilson (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
Thieves' Highway
Movie • 1949
Officer Riley (uncredited)
Why Girls Leave Home
Movie • 1945
Wilbur Harris
Stranger on Horseback
Movie • 1955
Vince Webb
Christmas in Connecticut
Movie • 1945
Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie • 1947
Amos Ames
The Mark of the Whistler
Movie • 1944
Fireman (uncredited)
The Gay Amigo
Movie • 1949
Editor Stoneham
Syncopation
Movie • 1942
Wilson
Movie • 1944
Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited)
Those High Grey Walls
Movie • 1939
Mr. Mason (uncredited)
Arizona
Movie • 1940
Man Who Declares for the South
Rachel and the Stranger
Movie • 1948
Gallus
Happy Land
Movie • 1943
Jake Hibbs (uncredited)
Angels Over Broadway
Movie • 1940
Rennick (uncredited)
Look Who's Laughing
Movie • 1941
Bill
Storm Warning
Movie • 1951
Coroner Bledsoe
Cafe Hostess
Movie • 1940
Jones
Faces in the Fog
Movie • 1944
Doan, Jury Foreman
Bring on the Girls
Movie • 1945
Henry (uncredited)
Trail to Vengeance
Movie • 1945
Bart Jackson
Rhythm Round-Up
Movie • 1945
Jed Morton
Albuquerque
Movie • 1948
Judge Fred Martin
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Settler (uncredited)
The Kansan
Movie • 1943
Judge Lorrimer
Oklahoma Territory
Movie • 1960
Ward Harlan
The Incredible Stranger
Movie • 1942
Doctor Peabody (uncredited)
The Bride Wore Boots
Movie • 1946
Mr. Hodges (uncredited)
Powder Town
Movie • 1942
Jerry the Nitrate Technician (uncredited)
The Remarkable Andrew
Movie • 1942
Hugo French
Living It Up
Movie • 1954
Isaiah Jackson
Ride, Vaquero!
Movie • 1953
Adam Smith
Eyes Aloft
Movie • 1943
Pa
Reconnaissance Pilot
Movie • 1943
George Newton
Destry
Movie • 1954
Henry Skinner
Murder, He Says
Movie • 1945
Vic Hardy (uncredited)
Reckless Age
Movie • 1944
Music Conductor
The Ghost That Walks Alone
Movie • 1944
Deputy Sheriff
The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1955
George Patterson
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Movie • 1946
Dempsey (uncredited)
Glory
Movie • 1956
Doc Brock
I'm from Arkansas
Movie • 1944
Attorney
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Movie • 1949
Doc Purdy
In This Our Life
Movie • 1942
Worker (uncredited)
Young Widow
Movie • 1946
Miller (Uncredited)
You Can't Run Away from It
Movie • 1956
1st Proprietor
For Me and My Gal
Movie • 1942
Bill (uncredited)
The Missing Juror
Movie • 1944
Town Sheriff (uncredited)
Scared Stiff
Movie • 1945
Deputy with Rifle (Uncredited)
The Long, Long Trailer
Movie • 1954
Uncle Edgar
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie • 1962
Conductor (uncredited)
Tall in the Saddle
Movie • 1944
Stan - Depot Master (uncredited)
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Floyd Lawson
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Grandpappy Miller
Mannix
TV • 1967
Luther
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Old Man
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Spivak
Lassie
TV • 1954
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Mr. Weaver
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Dr. Frank Kenston
My Mother the Car
TV • 1965
Lancer
TV • 1968
The Dakotas
TV • 1963
Lawman
TV • 1958
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Henry Clayburn
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Johnson
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Eddie Blake (uncredited)
Casey Jones
TV • 1957
Conductor
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Grandpappy Miller
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Farmer Everett
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV • 1953
George
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Frontier
TV • 1955
Briggs
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mr. Brinker