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."

Cast

The Best Years of Our Lives

(Mr. Parrish)

Cry of the City

(Orvy)

The Devil Commands

(Seth Marcy)

Scattergood Rides High

(Martin Knox)

The Racket

(Sgt. Sullivan)

Cheaper by the Dozen

(Jim Bracken (uncredited))

Framed

((uncredited))

Peaceful Relations

(Mr. Brown)

The Unsuspected

(Judge Maynard)

Interrupted Melody

(Jim Owens)

The Man from Colorado

(Stagecoach driver)

Winter Meeting

(Mr. Castle)

Cheyenne Autumn

(Jeremy Wright (uncredited))

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

(Diamond Ed Barnaby)

The Jackpot

(Watch Buyer (uncredited))

Miss Polly

(Lem Wiggins)

Dark Mountain

(Uncle Sam Bates)

The Winning Team

(Pa Alexander (uncredited))

Special Agent

(Pop Peters (uncredited))

Return of the Bad Men

(Muley Wilson)

A Stranger in Town

(Tom Cooney)

I Want You

(George Kress Sr.)

Rosemary's Baby

(Mr. Wees)

Scandal at Scourie

(Michael Hayward)

Wild in the Country

(Mr. Spangler (uncredited))

All That Money Can Buy

(Hank (uncredited))

The Fastest Gun Alive

(Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited))

The Harder They Fall

(Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited))

Hazard

(Superintendent)

Rough Riders of Durango

(Cricket Adams)

The Man Who Returned to Life

Carrie

(Mr. Meeber - Carrie's Father)

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

(Finch (uncredited))

Come to the Stable

(Claude Jarman (uncredited))

The Lost Weekend

(Man from Albany (uncredited))

Dragonwyck

(Tom Wilson (uncredited))

Sister Kenny

(Mr. Ferguson (uncredited))

Thieves' Highway

(Officer Riley (uncredited))

Why Girls Leave Home

(Wilbur Harris)

Stranger on Horseback

(Vince Webb)

Christmas in Connecticut

(Herb, the Sheriff)

Mourning Becomes Electra

(Amos Ames)

The Mark of the Whistler

(Fireman (uncredited))

The Gay Amigo

(Editor Stoneham)

Syncopation

Wilson

(Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited))

Those High Grey Walls

(Mr. Mason (uncredited))

Arizona

(Man Who Declares for the South)

Rachel and the Stranger

(Gallus)

Happy Land

(Jake Hibbs (uncredited))

Angels Over Broadway

(Rennick (uncredited))

Look Who's Laughing

(Bill)

Storm Warning

(Coroner Bledsoe)

Cafe Hostess

(Jones)

Faces in the Fog

(Doan, Jury Foreman)

Bring on the Girls

(Henry (uncredited))

Trail to Vengeance

(Bart Jackson)

Rhythm Round-Up

(Jed Morton)

Albuquerque

(Judge Fred Martin)

They Died with Their Boots On

(Settler (uncredited))

The Kansan

(Judge Lorrimer)

Oklahoma Territory

(Ward Harlan)

The Incredible Stranger

(Doctor Peabody (uncredited))

The Bride Wore Boots

(Mr. Hodges (uncredited))

The Remarkable Andrew

(Hugo French)

Powder Town

(Jerry the Nitrate Technician (uncredited))

Living It Up

(Isaiah Jackson)

Ride, Vaquero!

(Adam Smith)

Eyes Aloft

(Pa)

Reconnaissance Pilot

(George Newton)

Destry

(Henry Skinner)

Murder, He Says

(Vic Hardy (uncredited))

Reckless Age

(Music Conductor)

The Ghost That Walks Alone

(Deputy Sheriff)

The Desperate Hours

(George Patterson)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

(Dempsey (uncredited))

Glory

(Doc Brock)

I'm from Arkansas

(Attorney)

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

(Doc Purdy)

In This Our Life

(Worker (uncredited))

Young Widow

(Miller (Uncredited))

You Can't Run Away from It

(1st Proprietor)

For Me and My Gal

(Bill (uncredited))

The Missing Juror

(Town Sheriff (Uncredited))

Scared Stiff

(Deputy with Rifle (Uncredited))

The Long, Long Trailer

(Uncle Edgar)

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

(Conductor (uncredited))

The Andy Griffith Show

(Floyd Lawson)

Petticoat Junction

(Grandpappy Miller)

Mannix

(Luther)

Gunsmoke

(Old Man)

General Electric Theater

(Spivak)

Lassie

Nanny and the Professor

The Fugitive

(Mr. Weaver)

The Millionaire

(Dr. Frank Kenston)

My Mother the Car

Lancer

The Dakotas

Lawman

Frontier

General Electric Theater

(Henry Clayburn)

General Electric Theater

(Johnson)

Wagon Train

(Eddie Blake (uncredited))

Casey Jones

(Conductor)

Green Acres

(Grandpappy Miller)

Screen Director's Playhouse

(Farmer Everett)