I've never heard anyone talk about an actor named David Baker, stage name James Murdoch, in Bloomington. He played the part of "Mushy" for six years in the long running western TV series "Rawhide."
David Baker started life as the son of Faye Baker of 516 N. Lee Street. He attended Bent Grade School and Bloomington High (Class of 1949). His mother was Faye D. Baker, who was listed in the city directory as working as a pastry cook at the Woolworths in 1960 and as a cook for a Wesleyan fraternity in 1951. Her obituary stated she was a cook all her life. She died in 1991at Brokaw Hospital. Jim/David had two brother, Robert and Bill.
At Bloomington High he was on the track team.
This photo shows him with the Junior class of 1948 with what may have been a nickname, "Jim."
He spent five years in the Army and then went to Hollywood to try to make a career there. According to an article in January of 1958 in the Pantagraph he worked three years before having a measure of success when he had a starring part in "Ten Nights in a Barroom." (The Pantagraph called him "Jim Baker" in the article, but family trees call him David Lee Baker.) Ironically, this role is not reflected on his IMDB page. A year later he began his time on "Rawhide."
Later during his career he used the name David Baker and had a role in a movie "Some of my Best Friends" and a role as an FBI agent in "Godfather Part 2."
David Baker died of cancer in California at the age of 50