Walter Baldwin

actor

Country: United States

Gender: M

Birthday: 1889-01-02

Died: 1977-01-27

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."

Actor:

  1. 1. Frontier Marshal (1939), film
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    (scenes deleted)
  2. 2. Arizona (1940), film
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    Man Who Declares for the South
  3. 3. They Died With Their Boots On (1941), film
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    Settler
  4. 4. The Devil Commands (1941), film
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    Seth Marcy
  5. 5. Syncopation (1942), film
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    Tom Jones (uncredited)
  6. 6. The Kansan (1943), film
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    Judge Lorrimer
  7. 7. Tall in the Saddle (1944), film
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    Stan - Depot Master
  8. 8. I'll Be Seeing You (1944), film
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    Train Vendor (replaced by Olin Howland) (uncredite
  9. 9. Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944), film
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    Mr. Plummer (mailman) (uncredited)
  10. 10. Together Again (1944), film
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    Witherspoon (uncredited)
  11. 11. I'm From Arkansas (1944), film
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    Packing Company Attorney
  12. 12. Dark Mountain (1944), film
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    Uncle Sam Bates
  13. 13. The Lost Weekend (1945), film
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    Man from Albany
  14. 14. Christmas in Connecticut (1945), film
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    Sheriff Potter
  15. 15. State Fair (1945), film
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    Farmer
  16. 16. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), film
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    Dempsey
  17. 17. Dragonwyck (1946), film
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    Tom Wilson
  18. 18. Sister Kenny (1946), film
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    Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
  19. 19. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), film
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    Mr. Parrish
  20. 20. To Each His Own (1946), film
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    Sam Foreman (uncredited)
  21. 21. The Bride Wore Boots (1946), film
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    Mr. Hodges - Postman
  22. 22. Abilene Town (1946), film
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    Train Conductor
  23. 23. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), film
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    Mr. Parrish
  24. 24. The Unsuspected (1947), film
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    Justice of the Peace
  25. 25. Return of the Bad Men (1948), film
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    Muley Wilson
  26. 26. The Man from Colorado (1948), film
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    Tom Barton
  27. 27. Rachel and the Stranger (1948), film
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    Gallus
  28. 28. Cry of the City (1948), film
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    Orvy
  29. 29. Thieves' Highway (1949), film
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    Officer Riley
  30. 30. Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), film
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    Doc Purdy
  31. 31. Come to the Stable (1949), film
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    Claude Jarman - Realtor
  32. 32. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), film
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    Jim Bracken
  33. 33. The Jackpot (1950), film
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    Watch Buyer
  34. 34. Storm Warning (1951), film
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    Coroner Bledsoe
  35. 35. Ride, Vaquero! (1953), film
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    Adam Smith
  36. 36. Destry (1954), film
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    Henry Skinner
  37. 37. Living It Up (1954), film
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    Isaiah Jackson
  38. 38. The Desperate Hours (1955), film
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    George Patterson
  39. 39. Stranger on Horseback (1955), film
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    Vince Webb
  40. 40. Interrupted Melody (1955), film
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    Jim Owens
  41. 41. The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), film
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    Blind Man
  42. 42. The Harder They Fall (1956), film
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    Boxing fan at Dundee fight
  43. 43. Oklahoma Territory (1960), film
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    Ward Harlan
  44. 44. Lonely Man (1961), film
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    Mr. Spangler
  45. 45. Petticoat Junction (1963), series
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    Grandpappy Miller
  46. 46. Cheyenne Autumn (1964), film
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    Jeremy Wright
  47. 47. Rosemary's Baby (1968), film
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    Mr. Wees

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