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