Walter Baldwin

Acting

Born Jan 01, 1889

From Lima, Ohio, USA

Died Jan 27, 1977

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."

Walter Baldwin

Known For

Rosemary's Baby

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Cheaper by the Dozen

The Harder They Fall

Cheyenne Autumn

The Lost Weekend

The Fastest Gun Alive

Tall in the Saddle

Dragonwyck

Filmography — Acting

Rosemary's Baby

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Cheaper by the Dozen

The Harder They Fall

Cheyenne Autumn

The Lost Weekend

The Fastest Gun Alive

Tall in the Saddle

Dragonwyck

Thieves' Highway

Framed

The Racket

Hazard

Christmas in Connecticut

Wilson

The Long, Long Trailer

The Desperate Hours

In This Our Life

They Died with Their Boots On

Ride, Vaquero!

Interrupted Melody

Destry

The Winning Team

Wild in the Country

Arizona

The Unsuspected

Storm Warning

A Stranger in Town

Winter Meeting

Rachel and the Stranger

Living It Up

Cry of the City

Sister Kenny

Carrie

All That Money Can Buy

Stranger on Horseback

Angels Over Broadway

Young Widow

For Me and My Gal

The Remarkable Andrew

Happy Land

The Jackpot

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Cafe Hostess

The Man from Colorado

Glory

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Kansan

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

Syncopation

Albuquerque

The Mark of the Whistler

You Can't Run Away from It

Murder, He Says

Come to the Stable

I Want You

Reconnaissance Pilot

Return of the Bad Men

Faces in the Fog

The Missing Juror

Reckless Age

Miss Polly

Bring on the Girls

The Bride Wore Boots

Why Girls Leave Home