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

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- Name
- Peter Baldwin
- Birth Name
- Peter DuBois Baldwin
- Born
- 11 January 1931
- Birthplace
- Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- 19 November 2017
- Place of death
- Pebble Beach, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor, director
- Nationality
- United States.
- Honours
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
- Languages
- English.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Peter Baldwin • Birth Name — Peter DuBois Baldwin • Born — 11 January 1931 • Birthplace — Winnetka, Illinois, U.S. • Died — 19 November 2017 • Place of death — Pebble Beach, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actor, director • Years Active — 1952–2002
Documentary record
Peter Baldwin (11 January 1931 – 19 November 2017) is described as a director, producer and actor in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Peter Baldwin is recorded on 11 January 1931 in Winnetka, Illinois., and the death on 19 November 2017.
Biography
Biography
Baldwin started his career as an actor, employed as a contract player at Paramount Studios. He played Johnson in the film Stalag 17 and Lieutenant 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 situation comedy The Brady Bunch, he also directed episodes of other ABC hit sitcoms, The Partridge Family, 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 Emmy in 1988 for the television series The Wonder Years. His last directing credit was an episode of the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens in 2002. In the 1980s, Baldwin directed the short-lived comebacks of Mary Tyler Moore in Mary in 1985 and Lucille Ball in Life with Lucy in 1986. Both lasted 13 episodes. Baldwin lived with his wife in Pebble Beach, California where he died on November 19, 2017, at age 86.
Director
Director
• ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ (1964, TV Series) • Sanford and Son (1972, TV Series) • The Living End (1972) • The Bob Newhart Show (1973, TV series) • The Michele Lee Show (1974, TV Series) • Happy Days (1974, TV series) • Great Day (1977) • Space Force (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) • Newhart (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
Actor
• The Turning Point (1952) - Boy (uncredited) • The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) - Pvt. Henry Smith • Stalag 17 (1953) - Sgt. Johnson • Houdini (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)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1931
Peter Baldwin was born on 11 January 1931.
2017
Peter Baldwin died on 19 November 2017.
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Peter Baldwin was born at Winnetka.
Birthplace
Peter Baldwin died at Pebble Beach.
Deathplace
Winnetka.
Birth place
Pebble Beach.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- [Letter from Baldwin Peter], The English Journal, 1966
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1966
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1893915: Peter Baldwin
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scholarly publication
[Letter from Baldwin Peter], The English Journal, 1966Crossref registry
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