Peter DuBois Baldwin (January 11, 1931 – November 19, 2017) was an American actor and director of film and television.

Biography

Baldwin started his career as an actor, employed as a contract player at

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. He played Johnson in the film '' Stalag 17'' and

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Walker in '' Little Boy Lost'', both made in 1953. In 1962 he played the role of murderer Tony Benson in the '' Perry Mason'' episode, "The Case of the Melancholy Marksman", and appeared in the 1970 Italian thriller '' The Weekend Murders''. Baldwin eventually became a television director with an extensive résumé. As well as directing many of the episodes of ABC's hit

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'', he also directed episodes of other ABC hit sitcoms, ''

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'', from 1970 to 1971 and '' Benson'', from 1979 to 1980. He was among the directors of episodes of the 1973 NBC sitcom ''Needles and Pins'' and of the 1985-1986 CBS sitcom '' Foley Square'', and also helped direct a few episodes of '' Family Ties'' in 1987. He won an

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in 1988 for the television series '' The Wonder Years''. His last directing credit was an episode of the

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sitcom '' Even Stevens'' in 2002. In the 1980s, Baldwin directed the short-lived comebacks of Mary Tyler Moore in '' Mary'' in 1985 and

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in '' Life with Lucy'' in 1986. Both lasted 13 episodes. Baldwin lived with his wife in

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where he died on November 19, 2017, at age 86.

Filmography

Director

* ‘’

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’’ (1964, TV Series) * '' Sanford and Son'' (1972, TV Series) * ''

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'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1973, TV series) * '' The Michele Lee Show'' (1974, TV Series) * ''

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'' (1974, TV series) * '' Great Day'' (1977) * ''

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'' (1978) * '' The Lovebirds'' (1979) * '' Benson'' (1979-1980, TV Series) * '' Alone at Last'' (1980) * '' One In A Million'' (1980) * '' The Brady Girls Get Married'' (1981) * '' The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island'' (1981) * '' The Hoboken Chicken Emergency'' (1984) * '' Lots of Luck'' (1985) * ''

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'' (1987, TV series) * '' American Film Institute Comedy Special'' (1987) * '' A Very Brady Christmas'' (1988) * '' Charlie Hoover'' (1991, TV series) * '' Salute Your Shorts'' (1991, TV series) * '' Revenge of the Nerds'' (1991) * '' Meet Wally Sparks'' (1997) * '' Arliss'' (1997, TV series) * '' King's Pawn'' (1999) * '' Driving Me Crazy'' (2000)

Actor

*'' The Turning Point'' (1952) - Boy (uncredited) *'' The Girls of Pleasure Island'' (1953) - Pvt. Henry Smith *'' Stalag 17'' (1953) - Sgt. Johnson *''

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'' (1953) Fred - Bess' Escort (uncredited) *'' Little Boy Lost'' (1953) - Lt. Walker *'' The Ten Commandments'' (1956) - Courtier (uncredited) *'' Short Cut to Hell'' (1957) - Carl Adams *'' The Tin Star'' (1957) - Zeke McGaffey *'' Teacher's Pet'' (1958) - Harold Miller *'' The Space Children'' (1958) - Security Officer James *'' I Married a Monster from Outer Space'' (1958) - Officer Hank Swanson *'' The Trap'' (1959) - Mellon *'' Escape by Night'' (1960) - American Lieutenant Peter Bradley *'' Love in Rome'' (1960) - Marcello Cenni *''Quattro notti con Alba'' (1962) - Lieutenant Enrico Fassi *''I soliti rapinatori a Milano'' (1963) - Tony *'' The Ghost'' (1963) - Dr. Charles Livingstone *'' The Possessed'' (1965) - Bernard, the writer *'' The Weekend Murders'' (1970) - Anthony Carter *'' Roma Bene'' (1971) - Michele Vismara *'' The Mattei Affair'' (1972) - McHale (final film role)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Peter 1931 births 2017 deaths American male stage actors American male film actors American male television actors American television directors Primetime Emmy Award winners People from Winnetka, Illinois People from Pebble Beach, California Film directors from California Film directors from Illinois 20th-century American male actors