Walter Baldwin
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."
111 acting credits
Acting · 111
Mannix
1967
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
The Fugitive
1963
Wagon Train
1957
Lassie
1954
Petticoat Junction
1963
Lawman
1958
Green Acres
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
Lancer
1968
The Millionaire
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The Dakotas
1963
Rosemary's Baby
1968
Nanny and the Professor
1970
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
Frontier
1955
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Casey Jones
1957
My Mother the Car
1965
General Electric Theater
1953
The Harder They Fall
1956
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
The Lost Weekend
1945
The Desperate Hours
1955
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Arizona
1940
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
Dragonwyck
1946
Wild in the Country
1961
Tall in the Saddle
1944
The Man from Colorado
1948
Thieves' Highway
1949
The Racket
1951
Sister Kenny
1946
Destry
1954
Carrie
1952
The Unsuspected
1947
All That Money Can Buy
1941
Rachel and the Stranger
1948
In This Our Life
1942
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Storm Warning
1951
Happy Land
1943
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Framed
1947
Living It Up
1954
Albuquerque
1948
Wilson
1944
Hazard
1948
Young Widow
1946
Return of the Bad Men
1948
Interrupted Melody
1955
The Jackpot
1950
Come to the Stable
1949
For Me and My Gal
1942
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Angels Over Broadway
1940
Blonde Ransom
1945
Glory
1956
Cry of the City
1948
The Winning Team
1952
Cafe Hostess
1940
I Want You
1951
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
Reckless Age
1944
Special Agent
1949
Miss Polly
1941
Murder, He Says
1945
You Can't Run Away from It
1956
Scandal at Scourie
1953
Faces in the Fog
1944
The Missing Juror
1944
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
1943
Stranger on Horseback
1955
The Incredible Stranger
1942
The Kansan
1943
The Millerson Case
1947
Why Girls Leave Home
1945
The Devil Commands
1941
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
Winter Meeting
1948
Bring on the Girls
1945
Powder Town
1942
Those High Grey Walls
1939
The Mark of the Whistler
1944
Rough Riders of Durango
1951
Look Who's Laughing
1941
Syncopation
1942
Oklahoma Territory
1960
Scared Stiff
1945
Dark Mountain
1944
The Gay Amigo
1949
A Stranger in Town
1943
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
Rhythm Round-Up
1945
I'm from Arkansas
1944
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Scattergood Rides High
1942
Reconnaissance Pilot
1943
The Ghost That Walks Alone
1944
Eyes Aloft
1943
Trail to Vengeance
1945
Peaceful Relations
1936