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."
91 movies · 20 shows
Rosemary's Baby
1968·7.8
Cheyenne Autumn
1964·6.7
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962·5.6
Wild in the Country
1961·6.3
Oklahoma Territory
1960·7.0
You Can't Run Away from It
1956·5.1
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956·6.9
The Harder They Fall
1956·7.2
Glory
1956·5.7
The Desperate Hours
1955·7.0
Interrupted Melody
1955·5.8
Stranger on Horseback
1955·5.8
Destry
1954·6.1
Living It Up
1954·6.5
The Long, Long Trailer
1954·7.0
Ride, Vaquero!
1953·6.1
Scandal at Scourie
1953·6.9
Carrie
1952·6.4
The Winning Team
1952·6.1
I Want You
1951·5.3
The Racket
1951·6.3
Storm Warning
1951·6.7
Rough Riders of Durango
1951·7.0
The Jackpot
1950·7.0
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950·6.4
Thieves' Highway
1949·7.2
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949·6.1
Come to the Stable
1949·6.7
Special Agent
1949·9.0
The Gay Amigo
1949·6.8
Cry of the City
1948·6.7
Rachel and the Stranger
1948·6.5
The Man from Colorado
1948·6.8
Return of the Bad Men
1948·6.3
Hazard
1948·8.0
Winter Meeting
1948·6.6
Albuquerque
1948·6.8
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947·6.1
The Unsuspected
1947·6.7
The Millerson Case
1947·5.9
Framed
1947·6.5
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946·7.7
Sister Kenny
1946·6.9
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946·7.1
The Bride Wore Boots
1946·6.1
Dragonwyck
1946·6.6
Young Widow
1946·4.8
The Lost Weekend
1945·7.6
Why Girls Leave Home
1945·5.7
Rhythm Round-Up
1945·8.0
Christmas in Connecticut
1945·7.0
Murder, He Says
1945·6.8
Scared Stiff
1945·4.7
Trail to Vengeance
1945·7.0
Blonde Ransom
1945·8.0
Bring on the Girls
1945·6.3
Faces in the Fog
1944·4.3
The Missing Juror
1944·6.3
I'm from Arkansas
1944·6.0
The Mark of the Whistler
1944·6.2
Tall in the Saddle
1944·6.6
Dark Mountain
1944·5.3
Wilson
1944·5.6
Reckless Age
1944·9.0
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944·7.1
The Ghost That Walks Alone
1944·4.8
Happy Land
1943·7.1
The Kansan
1943·6.0
A Stranger in Town
1943·6.3
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
1943·5.9
Reconnaissance Pilot
1943·7.0
Eyes Aloft
1943·0.0
For Me and My Gal
1942·6.5
The Incredible Stranger
1942·6.3
Powder Town
1942·4.4
Syncopation
1942·6.8
Scattergood Rides High
1942·10.0
In This Our Life
1942·6.9
The Remarkable Andrew
1942·7.4
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942·7.3
Look Who's Laughing
1941·6.7
They Died with Their Boots On
1941·6.7
Miss Polly
1941·4.9
All That Money Can Buy
1941·7.0
The Devil Commands
1941·6.3
Arizona
1940·6.5
Angels Over Broadway
1940·5.9
Cafe Hostess
1940·5.4
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939·6.1
Those High Grey Walls
1939·6.4
Peaceful Relations
1936·7.0