Walter Baldwin
Biography
Walter Baldwin was an American character actor who worked across five decades, appearing in roughly 150 films and television shows. Born in Lima, Ohio, to two actors, he began with his parents' stock theater company before his first screen roles in 1939. On Broadway he originated the reporter Bensinger in the 1928 production of The Front Page and had a small part in the original Grand Hotel in 1931. His best-known film part came in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), as the father of a disabled sailor, and he often played middle-class townsmen, among them a customer in The Lost Weekend (1945) and the trusty Orvy in Cry of the City (1948). On television he was the first Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show and later took small parts in Petticoat Junction and Green Acres; one of his final screen roles was in Rosemary's Baby (1968). He died in 1977.
88years old at death
- Born Lima
- Died Santa Monica
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Walter Smith Baldwin Jr. (birth name)Also credited as Walter S. Baldwin Jr.
Movie Career
- Films
- 35
- Career span
- 22 years1939 to 1961
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A first
Walter Baldwin was the first actor to play Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show, a role later made famous by another performer.
First role
Baldwin was the first to play Bensinger, a prissy reporter for the Chicago Tribune, in the 1928 New York City Broadway staging of The Front Page, before he took on film parts in 1939.
A change of course
From 1949 to 1959 Baldwin played farmer Tom Gordon in John Deere Day movies, introducing new farming machinery to rural theater audiences year by year.
Walter Baldwin movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
William Wyler directed three of these films, George Marshall two. Four actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by William Wyler
All films by George Marshall
Also three films together4 more actors
- Fred ClarkLiving It Up (1954), Cry of the City (1948) and The Unsuspected (1947)
- Dorothy AdamsCarrie (1952), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Devil Commands (1941)
- Tito VuoloThe Racket (1951), Cry of the City (1948) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
- Raymond GreenleafWild in the Country (1961), Living It Up (1954) and Storm Warning (1951)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Walter Baldwin's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$47.8 million
6 of the 35 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 35 films: 6 worldwide figure; 6 us gross only; 23 figure not found.
- 6Worldwide figure
- 6US gross only
- 23Figure not found
Highest grossing
The six biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$24M49.5% of the total
- 2$11M23.0% of the total
- 3$4.4M9.1% of the total
- 4$3.2M6.8% of the total
- 5$3.0M6.3% of the total
- 6$2.5M5.2% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.