Walter Baldwin

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

137

Movies

Born: January 1, 1889 – January 27, 1977
From: 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."

Works

91 films

Rosemary's Baby

19687.8

The Harder They Fall

19567.2

The Best Years of Our Lives

19467.7

Dragonwyck

19466.6

They Died with Their Boots On

19416.7

Cheaper by the Dozen

19506.4

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

Tall in the Saddle

19446.6

The Lost Weekend

19457.6

The Desperate Hours

19557.0

The Fastest Gun Alive

19566.9

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

19467.1

Storm Warning

19516.7

Cry of the City

19486.7

Destry

19546.1

Christmas in Connecticut

19457.0

The Racket

19516.3

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

Living It Up

19546.5

In This Our Life

19426.9

All That Money Can Buy

19417.0

The Long, Long Trailer

19547.0

Special Agent

19499.0

Wild in the Country

19616.3

The Man from Colorado

19486.8

Arizona

19406.5

You Can't Run Away from It

19565.1

Rachel and the Stranger

19486.5

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

19625.6

Reconnaissance Pilot

19437.0

Stranger on Horseback

19555.8

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Carrie

19526.4

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

19496.1

Framed

19476.5

Scattergood Rides High

194210.0

The Gay Amigo

19496.8

Return of the Bad Men

19486.3

Mourning Becomes Electra

19476.1

Winter Meeting

19486.6

Syncopation

19426.8

The Unsuspected

19476.7

Young Widow

19464.8

The Jackpot

19507.0

The Winning Team

19526.1

Those High Grey Walls

19396.4

Wilson

19445.6

Cafe Hostess

19405.4

Interrupted Melody

19555.8

For Me and My Gal

19426.5

Come to the Stable

19496.7

The Kansan

19436.0

Albuquerque

19486.8

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

19396.1

Miss Polly

19414.9

The Mark of the Whistler

19446.2

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

19447.1

The Devil Commands

19416.3

The Millerson Case

19475.9

Murder, He Says

19456.8

Thieves' Highway

19497.2

I Want You

19515.3

Look Who's Laughing

19416.7

Happy Land

19437.1

Eyes Aloft

1943

Dark Mountain

19445.3

The Remarkable Andrew

19427.4

The Missing Juror

19446.3

Bring on the Girls

19456.3

Blonde Ransom

19458.0

The Bride Wore Boots

19466.1

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

19435.9

A Stranger in Town

19436.3

Why Girls Leave Home

19455.7

The Man Who Returned to Life

19427.3

Scandal at Scourie

19536.9

Rough Riders of Durango

19517.0

Faces in the Fog

19444.3

The Incredible Stranger

19426.3

The Ghost That Walks Alone

19444.8

Scared Stiff

19454.7

Powder Town

19424.4

Reckless Age

19449.0

Glory

19565.7

Oklahoma Territory

19607.0

I'm from Arkansas

19446.0

Rhythm Round-Up

19458.0

Trail to Vengeance

19457.0

Angels Over Broadway

19405.9

Hazard

19488.0

Peaceful Relations

19367.0