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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1889
Died
January 27, 1977
Place of Birth
Lima, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- Walter S. Baldwin Jr.
- Walter S. Baldwin
- Walter Smith Baldwin Jr.
Walter Baldwin
0.5 Popularity
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."
Known For
6.0
Nanny and the Professor
1970
4.7
Lancer
1968
7.8
Mr. Wees (uncredited)
Rosemary's Baby
1968
6.7
Luther
Mannix
1967
7.3
Grandpappy Miller
Green Acres
1965
4.3
My Mother the Car
1965
6.7
Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
5.7
Grandpappy Miller
Petticoat Junction
1963
7.2
Mr. Weaver
The Fugitive
1963
5.7
The Dakotas
1963
Credits
Nanny and the Professor
1970
6.0
Lancer
1968
4.7
Rosemary's Baby
as Mr. Wees (uncredited)
1968
7.8
Mannix
as Luther
1967
6.7
Green Acres
as Grandpappy Miller
1965
7.3
My Mother the Car
1965
4.3
Cheyenne Autumn
as Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
1964
6.7
Petticoat Junction
as Grandpappy Miller
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as Mr. Weaver
1963
7.2
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
as Conductor (uncredited)
1962
5.2
Wild in the Country
as Mr. Spangler (uncredited)
1961
6.2
The Andy Griffith Show
as Floyd Lawson
1960
7.6
Oklahoma Territory
as Ward Harlan
1960
6.7
Lawman
1958
5.6
Casey Jones
as Conductor
1957
5.5
Wagon Train
as Eddie Blake (uncredited)
1957
6.6
You Can't Run Away from It
as 1st Proprietor
1956
4.7
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited)
1956
6.9
The Harder They Fall
as Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited)
1956
7.1
Glory
as Doc Brock
1956
5.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Farmer Everett
1955
6.5
The Desperate Hours
as George Patterson
1955
7.0
Frontier
as Briggs
1955
5.0
Gunsmoke
as Old Man
1955
6.6
Interrupted Melody
as Jim Owens
1955
5.5
Stranger on Horseback
as Vince Webb
1955
5.5
The Millionaire
as Dr. Frank Kenston
1955
5.0
Destry
as Henry Skinner
1954
6.2
Lassie
1954
6.1
Living It Up
as Isaiah Jackson
1954
6.4
The Long, Long Trailer
as Uncle Edgar
1954
6.9
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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
as George
1953
7.0
Ride, Vaquero!
as Adam Smith
1953
5.9
Scandal at Scourie
as Michael Hayward
1953
6.7
General Electric Theater
as Spivak
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Henry Clayburn
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Johnson
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
Carrie
as Mr. Meeber - Carrie's Father
1952
6.4
The Winning Team
as Pa Alexander (uncredited)
1952
5.5
I Want You
as George Kress Sr.
1951
4.7
The Racket
as Sullivan
1951
6.3
Storm Warning
as Coroner Bledsoe
1951
6.6
Rough Riders of Durango
as Cricket Adams
1951
0.0
The Jackpot
as Watch Buyer (uncredited)
1950
6.9
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Lux Video Theatre
as Mr. Brinker
1950
6.3
Cheaper by the Dozen
as Jim Bracken (uncredited)
1950
6.3
Thieves' Highway
as Officer Riley (uncredited)
1949
7.2
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Doc Purdy
1949
5.9
Come to the Stable
as Claude Jarman (uncredited)
1949
6.4
Special Agent
as Pop Peters (uncredited)
1949
0.0
The Gay Amigo
as Editor Stoneham
1949
6.5
Cry of the City
as Orvy
1948
6.7
Rachel and the Stranger
as Gallus
1948
6.2
The Man from Colorado
as Stagecoach driver
1948
6.7
Return of the Bad Men
as Muley Wilson
1948
6.3
Hazard
as Superintendent
1948
8.0
Winter Meeting
as Mr. Castle
1948
6.5
Albuquerque
as Judge Fred Martin
1948
6.8
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Amos Ames
1947
6.0
The Unsuspected
as Judge Maynard
1947
6.6
Framed
as (uncredited)
1947
6.4
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Mr. Parrish
1946
7.8
Sister Kenny
as Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
1946
6.8
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
as Dempsey (uncredited)
1946
7.1
The Bride Wore Boots
as Mr. Hodges (uncredited)
1946
5.9
Dragonwyck
as Tom Wilson (uncredited)
1946
6.7
Young Widow
as Miller (Uncredited)
1946
4.6
The Lost Weekend
as Man from Albany (uncredited)
1945
7.6
Why Girls Leave Home
as Wilbur Harris
1945
5.0
Rhythm Round-Up
as Jed Morton
1945
0.0
Christmas in Connecticut
as Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
1945
7.0
Murder, He Says
as Vic Hardy (uncredited)
1945
6.6
Scared Stiff
as Deputy with Rifle (Uncredited)
1945
4.0
Trail to Vengeance
as Bart Jackson
1945
0.0
Bring on the Girls
as Henry (uncredited)
1945
6.1
Faces in the Fog
as Doan, Jury Foreman
1944
3.0
The Missing Juror
as Town Sheriff (Uncredited)
1944
6.0
I'm from Arkansas
as Attorney
1944
5.4
The Mark of the Whistler
as Fireman (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Tall in the Saddle
as Stan - Depot Master (uncredited)
1944
6.5
Dark Mountain
as Uncle Sam Bates
1944
4.9
Reckless Age
as Music Conductor
1944
0.0
Wilson
as Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited)
1944
5.5
The Ghost That Walks Alone
as Deputy Sheriff
1944
3.7
Happy Land
as Jake Hibbs (uncredited)
1943
6.2
The Kansan
as Judge Lorrimer
1943
5.4
A Stranger in Town
as Tom Cooney
1943
6.1
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
as Diamond Ed Barnaby
1943
5.6
Reconnaissance Pilot
as George Newton
1943
0.0
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Eyes Aloft
as Pa
1943
0.0
For Me and My Gal
as Bill (uncredited)
1942
6.4
The Incredible Stranger
as Doctor Peabody (uncredited)
1942
6.5
Powder Town
as Jerry the Nitrate Technician (uncredited)
1942
3.5
Syncopation
1942
6.2
In This Our Life
as Worker (uncredited)
1942
6.8
Scattergood Rides High
as Martin Knox
1942
0.0
The Remarkable Andrew
as Hugo French
1942
6.8
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Homer-the Barber
1942
6.0
Look Who's Laughing
as Bill
1941
5.5
They Died with Their Boots On
as Settler (uncredited)
1941
6.6
Miss Polly
as Lem Wiggins
1941
4.5
All That Money Can Buy
as Hank (uncredited)
1941
7.0
The Devil Commands
as Seth Marcy
1941
6.2
Arizona
as Man Who Declares for the South
1940
6.3
Angels Over Broadway
as Rennick (uncredited)
1940
5.8
Cafe Hostess
as Jones
1940
5.3
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Finch (uncredited)
1939
5.6
Those High Grey Walls
as Mr. Mason (uncredited)
1939
6.2
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Peaceful Relations
as Mr. Brown
1936
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