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Walter Baldwin

Walter Baldwin

Actor · 1889 – 1977 · Lima, Ohio, USA

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."

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  • Movie7.2

    The Harder They Fall

    1956 · 158 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968 · 4.5K votes

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie7.6

    The Lost Weekend

    1945 · 684 votes

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    Cheyenne Autumn

    1964 · 151 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Tall in the Saddle

    1944 · 76 votes

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    Dragonwyck

    1946 · 126 votes

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  • Movie6.9

    The Fastest Gun Alive

    1956 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Cry of the City

    1948 · 75 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Desperate Hours

    1955 · 188 votes

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    Cheaper by the Dozen

    1950 · 89 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Long, Long Trailer

    1954 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Destry

    1954 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Unsuspected

    1947 · 60 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Thieves' Highway

    1949 · 118 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Wild in the Country

    1961 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.9

    In This Our Life

    1942 · 58 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Living It Up

    1954 · 36 votes

  • Movie7.0

    All That Money Can Buy

    1941 · 101 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Carrie

    1952 · 51 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Return of the Bad Men

    1948 · 45 votes

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  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV6.3

    Lassie

    1954 · 74 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.0

    Lawman

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV7.2

    Green Acres

    1965 · 80 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV5.6

    Lancer

    1968 · 6 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV8.5
  • TV6.7

    Nanny and the Professor

    1970 · 11 votes

  • TV4.8

    My Mother the Car

    1965 · 11 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Dakotas

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV5.8

    Casey Jones

    1957 · 5 votes

  • TV7.5

    Frontier

    1955 · 2 votes

  • TV6.8