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