Walter Baldwin
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."
Rosemary's Baby
Mr. Wees (uncredited)
Cheyenne Autumn
Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Conductor (uncredited)
Wild in the Country
Mr. Spangler (uncredited)
Oklahoma Territory
Ward Harlan
You Can't Run Away from It
1st Proprietor
The Fastest Gun Alive
Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited)
The Harder They Fall
Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited)
Glory
Doc Brock
The Desperate Hours
George Patterson
Interrupted Melody
Jim Owens
Stranger on Horseback
Vince Webb
Destry
Henry Skinner
Living It Up
Isaiah Jackson
The Long, Long Trailer
Uncle Edgar
Ride, Vaquero!
Adam Smith
Scandal at Scourie
Michael Hayward
Carrie
Mr. Meeber - Carrie's Father
The Winning Team
Pa Alexander (uncredited)
I Want You
George Kress Sr.
The Racket
Sullivan
Storm Warning
Coroner Bledsoe
Rough Riders of Durango
Cricket Adams
The Jackpot
Watch Buyer (uncredited)
Cheaper by the Dozen
Jim Bracken (uncredited)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Doc Purdy
Thieves' Highway
Officer Riley (uncredited)
Come to the Stable
Claude Jarman (uncredited)
Special Agent
Pop Peters (uncredited)
The Gay Amigo
Editor Stoneham
Cry of the City
Orvy
Rachel and the Stranger
Gallus
The Man from Colorado
Stagecoach driver
Return of the Bad Men
Muley Wilson
Hazard
Superintendent
Winter Meeting
Mr. Castle
Albuquerque
Judge Fred Martin
Mourning Becomes Electra
Amos Ames
The Unsuspected
Judge Maynard
Framed
(uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Parrish
Sister Kenny
Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Dempsey (uncredited)
The Bride Wore Boots
Mr. Hodges (uncredited)
Dragonwyck
Tom Wilson (uncredited)
Young Widow
Miller (Uncredited)
The Lost Weekend
Man from Albany (uncredited)
Why Girls Leave Home
Wilbur Harris
Rhythm Round-Up
Jed Morton
Christmas in Connecticut
Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
Murder, He Says
Vic Hardy (uncredited)
Scared Stiff
Deputy with Rifle (Uncredited)
Trail to Vengeance
Bart Jackson
Bring on the Girls
Henry (uncredited)
Faces in the Fog
Doan, Jury Foreman
The Missing Juror
Town Sheriff (uncredited)
I'm from Arkansas
Attorney
The Mark of the Whistler
Fireman (uncredited)
Tall in the Saddle
Stan - Depot Master (uncredited)
Dark Mountain
Uncle Sam Bates
Reckless Age
Music Conductor
Wilson
Wilson Campaign Orator (uncredited)
The Ghost That Walks Alone
Deputy Sheriff
Happy Land
Jake Hibbs (uncredited)
The Kansan
Judge Lorrimer
A Stranger in Town
Tom Cooney
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Diamond Ed Barnaby
Reconnaissance Pilot
George Newton
Eyes Aloft
Pa
For Me and My Gal
Bill (uncredited)
The Incredible Stranger
Doctor Peabody (uncredited)
Powder Town
Jerry the Nitrate Technician (uncredited)
Syncopation
In This Our Life
Worker (uncredited)
Scattergood Rides High
Martin Knox
The Remarkable Andrew
Hugo French
The Man Who Returned to Life
Homer-the Barber
Look Who's Laughing
Bill
They Died with Their Boots On
Settler (uncredited)
Miss Polly
Lem Wiggins
All That Money Can Buy
Hank (uncredited)
The Devil Commands
Seth Marcy
Arizona
Man Who Declares for the South
Angels Over Broadway
Rennick (uncredited)
Cafe Hostess
Jones
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Finch (uncredited)
Those High Grey Walls
Mr. Mason (uncredited)
Peaceful Relations
Mr. Brown