Walter Baldwin
Actor/Actriz
88
Películas
18
Series
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."
Como Actor/Actriz
The Andy Griffith Show
Floyd Lawson
Mannix
Luther
Lassie
Wagon Train
Eddie Blake (uncredited)
El fugitivo
Mr. Weaver
Petticoat Junction
Grandpappy Miller
Lawman
Green Acres
Grandpappy Miller
Gunsmoke
Old Man
Lancer
The Millionaire
Dr. Frank Kenston
El bebé de Rosemary
Mr. Wees (uncredited)
Screen Director's Playhouse
Farmer Everett
Nanny and the Professor
The Dakotas
Casey Jones
Conductor
Frontier
Briggs
La caída de un ídolo
Boxing fan at Dundee fight (uncredited)
Lo mejor de nuestra vida
Mr. Parrish
My Mother the Car
Días sin huella
Man from Albany (uncredited)
Tall in the Saddle
Stan - Depot Master (uncredited)
Christmas in Connecticut
Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
El extraño caso de Martha Ivers
Dempsey (uncredited)
The Desperate Hours
George Patterson
General Electric Theater
Spivak
Más barato por docena
Jim Bracken (uncredited)
El ocaso de los Cheyennes
Jeremy Wright (uncredited)
The Racket
Sullivan
El pistolero invencible
Man Who Warns Vinny (uncredited)