Cast

Walter Baldwin

Acting

Cast

Walter Baldwin

Known for

Acting

Born

1889-01-01

From

Lima, Ohio, USA

Died

1977-01-27

Also known as Walter S. Baldwin Jr., Walter S. Baldwin, Walter Smith Baldwin Jr.

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."

Walter Baldwin

Walter Baldwin

Biography

Rosemary's Baby

The Best Years of Our Lives

Cheaper by the Dozen

Destry

The Lost Weekend

The Harder They Fall

They Died with Their Boots On

Dragonwyck

The Desperate Hours

Cheyenne Autumn

The Fastest Gun Alive

Tall in the Saddle

Reconnaissance Pilot

The Long, Long Trailer

Special Agent

The Unsuspected

The Man from Colorado

Those High Grey Walls

Living It Up

Sister Kenny

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Cry of the City

Christmas in Connecticut

The Millerson Case

The Racket

Wild in the Country

Eyes Aloft

You Can't Run Away from It

All That Money Can Buy

Rachel and the Stranger

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

The Remarkable Andrew

Storm Warning

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Carrie

Stranger on Horseback

Interrupted Melody

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Return of the Bad Men

Ride, Vaquero!

Come to the Stable

The Gay Amigo

The Jackpot

Scattergood Rides High

Arizona

Murder, He Says

Thieves' Highway

I Want You

For Me and My Gal

Dark Mountain

Framed

The Devil Commands

Hazard

The Kansan

The Incredible Stranger

The Bride Wore Boots

The Winning Team

Powder Town

Wilson

In This Our Life

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Syncopation

Why Girls Leave Home

Oklahoma Territory

The Missing Juror

Albuquerque

Happy Land

The Mark of the Whistler

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

Glory

Winter Meeting

Scandal at Scourie

A Stranger in Town

Bring on the Girls

Reckless Age

Look Who's Laughing