Walter Baldwin

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Biography

American actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 02 January 1889
  • Place of birth
  • Lima· Ohio
  • Death date
  • 1977-01-27
  • Death age
  • 88
  • Place of death
  • Santa Monica· California
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Henry Baldwin

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Was the first actor to play "Floyd the Barber" on "The Andy Griffith Show" , doing so in only one episode. Thereafter, Floyd was always played by Howard McNear , who fashioned him into one of the shows most memorable characters.

Prolific American small part character actor, often seen wearing rimless spectacles and having few teeth. He had extensive experience on Broadway (1917-37) and acted in films from the mid-1930s. Baldwin invariably played lower middle-class, frequently downtrodden, small town inhabitants or bucolic types. He worked almost exclusively in television after 1956.

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