Walter Baldwin

Walter Smith Baldwin Jr. (January 2, 1889 − January 27, 1977) was an American character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances. Baldwin was born January 2, 1889, in Lima, Ohio, into a theatrical family: his father Walter S. Baldwin Sr. and mother Pearl Melville (a sister of Rose Melville) were both actors. He joined his parents' stock theatre company, and in 1915 married fellow actress Geraldine Blair. He was probably best known for playing the father of the disabled sailor in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). He was the first actor to portray the town character "Floyd the Barber" on The Andy Griffith Show starring Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.on television, 1960 to 1968. Prior to his first film roles in 1939, Baldwin had appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays in New York City. He played "Whit"/ in the first Broadway production in 1938 of Of Mice and Men, based on famous author John Steinbeck's best-selling novel published the previous year of 1937, ànd also appeared in the original Grand Hotel (1931) play in a small rol... ()