Walter Pidgeon
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Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.
Known for
Credits
Quo Vadis (1951)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
as Dr. Edward Morbius
Funny Girl (1968)
as Florenz Ziegfeld
Cinderella (1965)
as King
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
as Mr. Gruffydd
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Clem Miniver
Madame Curie (1943)
as Pierre Curie
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
as Admiral Harriman Nelson
Man Hunt (1941)
as Captain Alan Thorndike
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Harry Pebbel
The Rack (1956)
as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
The Neptune Factor (1973)
as Dr. Samuel Andrews
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
as James Ellswirth
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
as Sam Gladney
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
White Cargo (1942)
as Mr. Harry Witzel
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
as The Pickpocket
Hit the Deck (1955)
as Xavier Smith
Advise & Consent (1962)
as Senate Majority Leader
Dream Wife (1953)
as Walter McBride
Dark Command (1940)
as William 'Will' Cantrell
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Warning Shot (1967)
as Orville Ames
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Grayson's Butler
Command Decision (1948)
as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
Executive Suite (1954)
as Frederick Y. Alderson
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
as Frederick Kellerman
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Soldiers Three (1951)
as Col. Brunswick
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
as Chip Collyer
Sextette (1978)
as The Chairman
House on Greenapple Road (1970)
as Mayor Jack Parker
The Unknown Man (1951)
as Dwight Bradley Masen
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
as Narrator (voice)
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Major Augustus Parkington
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
as Charlie Parkins
Deep in My Heart (1954)
as J.J. Shubert
Skyjacked (1972)
as Sen. Arne Lindner
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Sam Bailey
The Shortest Day (1963)
as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
Flight Command (1940)
as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
as Self
The Hoaxters (1952)
as Narrator (voice)
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies (2022)
as Self - (archive footage)
Saratoga (1937)
as Hartley Madison
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
as William Sylvester Packett
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
as Cmdr. Dowling
Society Lawyer (1939)
as Christopher Durant
The Youngest Profession (1943)
as Walter Pidgeon
The Sellout (1952)
as Haven D. Allridge
Man-Proof (1938)
as Alan Wythe
Phantom Raiders (1940)
as Nick Carter
Sky Murder (1940)
as Nick Carter
Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
as Casey
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
as Bill Dennis
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Richard Morey
Big Red (1962)
as James Haggin
The House Across the Bay (1940)
as Tim Nolan
Girl Overboard (1937)
as Paul Stacey
The Screaming Woman (1972)
as Dr. Amos Larkin
Bride of the Regiment (1930)
as Colonel Vultow
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Rascal (1969)
as Sterling North (voice)
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
as Lucy's Lover
Woman Wise (1928)
as United States Consul
The Red Danube (1949)
as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
Design for Scandal (1941)
as Jeff Sherman
That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
as Premiere Emcee
The Secret Heart (1946)
as Chris Matthews
As Good as Married (1937)
as Fraser James
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
as Jeffrey Evans
Mannequin (1926)
as Martin Innesbrook
She's Dangerous (1937)
as Dr. Scott Logan
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Judge Trenchard
The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
as Sheriff Jack Rance
Anniversary (1963)
as Himself - Host
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
as Self
If Winter Comes (1947)
as Mark Sabre
The Miniver Story (1950)
as Clem Miniver
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)
as John Pahlman
Listen, Darling (1938)
as Richard Thurlow
The Mask of Sheba (1970)
as Dr. Max van Condon
The Gorilla (1927)
as Stevens
These Wilder Years (1956)
as James Rayburn
Live Again, Die Again (1974)
as Thomas Carmichael
Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Paul de St. Cyr
Old Loves and New (1926)
as Clyde Lord Geradine
It's a Date (1940)
as John Arlen
Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)
as Alonzo Smith
Miss Nobody (1926)
as Bravo
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
as Tyler Flagg
Viennese Nights (1930)
as Franz von Renner
Journal of a Crime (1934)
as Florestan
Rockabye (1932)
as Al Howard
Her Private Life (1929)
as Ned Thayer
Turn Back the Hours (1928)
as Philip Drake
Fatal Lady (1936)
as David Roberts
The Heart of Salome (1927)
as Monte Carroll
Clothes Make the Woman (1928)
as Victor Trent
You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)
as Uncle Joe Padway
Going Wild (1930)
as 'Ace' Benton
The Gateway of the Moon (1928)
as Arthur Wyatt
The Outsider (1926)
as Basil Owen
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)
as Lewis Gannet
Swiss Family Robinson (1958)
as Anton (Father)
6,000 Enemies (1939)
as Steve Donegan
A Girl with Ideas (1937)
as Mickey McGuire
The Gorilla (1930)
as Arthur Marsden
The Vatican Affair (1968)
as Herbert Cummings
The Girl from Rio (1927)
as Paul Sinclair
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
as Lord Varney
Marriage License? (1926)
as Paul
Two Colonels (1963)
as Colonello Henderson
The Voice Within (1929)
Actor
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
as Patrick J. McChesney
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
as Ken Morley
Melody of Love (1928)
as Jack Clark
A Most Immoral Lady (1929)
as Tony Williams
The 13th Juror (1927)
as Richard Marsden
The Hot Heiress (1931)
as Clay
Good Badminton (1934)
as Walter
Fritz Lang, drawings for a film (1989)
as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)