
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)





