Walter Baldwin
1889-01-01 ( 136 years old ) in 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."

Movies

Rosemary's Baby 1968-06-12
Cheyenne Autumn 1964-10-15
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man 1962-07-25
Wild in the Country 1961-06-15
Oklahoma Territory 1960-03-01
You Can't Run Away from It 1956-10-30
The Fastest Gun Alive 1956-07-12
The Harder They Fall 1956-05-08
Glory 1956-01-11
The Desperate Hours 1955-10-05
Interrupted Melody 1955-05-05
Stranger on Horseback 1955-03-22
Destry 1954-12-01
Living It Up 1954-07-15
The Long, Long Trailer 1954-02-19
Ride, Vaquero! 1953-07-17
Scandal at Scourie 1953-05-17
Carrie 1952-07-17
The Winning Team 1952-06-20
I Want You 1951-12-22
The Racket 1951-10-25
Storm Warning 1951-02-10
Rough Riders of Durango 1951-01-30
The Jackpot 1950-11-01
Cheaper by the Dozen 1950-03-31
Thieves' Highway 1949-09-20
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass 1949-09-20
Come to the Stable 1949-07-27
Special Agent 1949-07-22
The Gay Amigo 1949-05-13
Cry of the City 1948-09-29
Rachel and the Stranger 1948-09-18
The Man from Colorado 1948-08-07
Return of the Bad Men 1948-07-17
Hazard 1948-05-28
Winter Meeting 1948-04-07
Albuquerque 1948-02-20
Mourning Becomes Electra 1947-11-19
The Unsuspected 1947-10-11
Framed 1947-05-25
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946-12-25
Sister Kenny 1946-10-10
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946-08-19
The Bride Wore Boots 1946-06-05
Dragonwyck 1946-04-19
Young Widow 1946-03-01
The Lost Weekend 1945-11-29
Why Girls Leave Home 1945-10-09
Rhythm Round-Up 1945-09-06
Christmas in Connecticut 1945-07-27
Murder, He Says 1945-06-23
Scared Stiff 1945-06-22
Trail to Vengeance 1945-06-01
Bring on the Girls 1945-03-30
Faces in the Fog 1944-11-30
The Missing Juror 1944-11-16
I'm from Arkansas 1944-10-31
The Mark of the Whistler 1944-10-09
Dark Mountain 1944-09-01
Wilson 1944-08-01
Reckless Age 1944-08-01
The Ghost That Walks Alone 1944-02-10
Happy Land 1943-11-10
The Kansan 1943-09-10
A Stranger in Town 1943-04-01
After Midnight with Boston Blackie 1943-03-18
Reconnaissance Pilot 1943-01-25
Eyes Aloft 1943-01-24
For Me and My Gal 1942-10-21
The Incredible Stranger 1942-06-20
Powder Town 1942-06-07
Syncopation 1942-05-22
Scattergood Rides High 1942-05-08
In This Our Life 1942-05-08
The Remarkable Andrew 1942-03-05
The Man Who Returned to Life 1942-02-05
Look Who's Laughing 1941-11-21
They Died with Their Boots On 1941-11-20
Miss Polly 1941-11-14
All That Money Can Buy 1941-10-17
The Devil Commands 1941-08-15
Arizona 1940-12-25
Angels Over Broadway 1940-10-02
Cafe Hostess 1940-01-11
The Secret of Dr. Kildare 1939-11-24
Those High Grey Walls 1939-09-21
Peaceful Relations 1936-06-19

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