
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

Funny Girl (1968)
as Florenz Ziegfeld

Forbidden Planet (1956)
as Dr. Edward Morbius

Quo Vadis (1951)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Clem Miniver

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
as Mr. Gruffydd

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
as Harry Pebbel

That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
as James Ellswirth

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
as Admiral Harriman Nelson

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
as Frederick Kellerman

Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
as Casey

Advise & Consent (1962)
as Senate Majority Leader

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies (2022)
as Self - (archive footage)

Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

Cinderella (1965)
as King

Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
as Cmdr. Dowling

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
as Sam Gladney

Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
as Premiere Emcee

Skyjacked (1972)
as Sen. Arne Lindner

Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)

Mannequin (1926)
as Martin Innesbrook

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
as Chip Collyer

Two-Minute Warning (1976)
as The Pickpocket

Hit the Deck (1955)
as Xavier Smith

She's Dangerous (1937)
as Dr. Scott Logan

Madame Curie (1943)
as Pierre Curie

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)

Command Decision (1948)
as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

Girl Overboard (1937)
as Paul Stacey

The Girl from Rio (1927)
as Paul Sinclair

Too Hot to Handle (1938)
as Bill Dennis

Woman Wise (1928)
as United States Consul

Dark Command (1940)
as William 'Will' Cantrell

Executive Suite (1954)
as Frederick Y. Alderson

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)
as Lewis Gannet

The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Sam Bailey

Warning Shot (1967)
as Orville Ames
Anniversary (1963)
as Himself - Host

Old Loves and New (1926)
as Clyde Lord Geradine

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)

Deep in My Heart (1954)
as J.J. Shubert

The House Across the Bay (1940)
as Tim Nolan

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Grayson's Butler

The Glass Slipper (1955)
as Narrator (voice)

Sky Murder (1940)
as Nick Carter

The Shortest Day (1963)
as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)

Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Major Augustus Parkington

The Mask of Sheba (1970)
as Dr. Max van Condon

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

House on Greenapple Road (1970)
as Mayor Jack Parker

Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
as Charlie Parkins

Her Private Life (1929)
as Ned Thayer

White Cargo (1942)
as Mr. Harry Witzel

The Rack (1956)
as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

Sextette (1978)
as The Chairman

That Forsyte Woman (1949)
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

Saratoga (1937)
as Hartley Madison

Man-Proof (1938)
as Alan Wythe

A Most Immoral Lady (1929)
as Tony Williams

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930)
as Self

The Red Danube (1949)
as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
as Lucy's Lover

It's a Date (1940)
as John Arlen

The Youngest Profession (1943)
as Walter Pidgeon

The Neptune Factor (1973)
as Dr. Samuel Andrews

Scandal at Scourie (1953)
as Patrick J. McChesney

Dream Wife (1953)
as Walter McBride

The Secret Heart (1946)
as Chris Matthews

Man Hunt (1941)
as Captain Alan Thorndike

The Miniver Story (1950)
as Clem Miniver

Julia Misbehaves (1948)
as William Sylvester Packett

Big Red (1962)
as James Haggin

The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self

The Unknown Man (1951)
as Dwight Bradley Masen

The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)
as John Pahlman

The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
as Sheriff Jack Rance

Two Colonels (1963)
as Colonello Henderson

If Winter Comes (1947)
as Mark Sabre

Soldiers Three (1951)
as Col. Brunswick

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Judge Trenchard

Fatal Lady (1936)
as David Roberts

Bride of the Regiment (1930)
as Colonel Vultow

Rascal (1969)
as Sterling North (voice)

Big Brown Eyes (1936)
as Richard Morey

Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
as Lord Varney
The Hoaxters (1952)
as Narrator (voice)

Flight Command (1940)
as Squadron Commander Billy Gary

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self

You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)
as Uncle Joe Padway

Live Again, Die Again (1974)
as Thomas Carmichael

Design for Scandal (1941)
as Jeff Sherman

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film (1989)
as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)

Rockabye (1932)
as Al Howard

Miss Nobody (1926)
as Bravo

My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
as Ken Morley

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)
as Alonzo Smith

Journal of a Crime (1934)
as Florestan

Listen, Darling (1938)
as Richard Thurlow

The Screaming Woman (1972)
as Amos Larkin

These Wilder Years (1956)
as James Rayburn

Society Lawyer (1939)
as Christopher Durant

Holiday in Mexico (1946)
as Jeffrey Evans

The Heart of Salome (1927)
as Monte Carroll

The Gateway of the Moon (1928)
as Arthur Wyatt

Phantom Raiders (1940)
as Nick Carter

A Girl with Ideas (1937)
as Mickey McGuire

Turn Back the Hours (1928)
as Philip Drake

The Gorilla (1927)
as Stevens

The Outsider (1926)
as Basil Owen

The Sellout (1952)
as Haven D. Allridge

6,000 Enemies (1939)
as Steve Donegan

Going Wild (1930)
as 'Ace' Benton

As Good as Married (1937)
as Fraser James

Stronger Than Desire (1939)
as Tyler Flagg

Melody of Love (1928)
as Jack Clark
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
as Self

Viennese Nights (1930)
as Franz von Renner

The Vatican Affair (1968)
as Herbert Cummings

The Gorilla (1930)
as Arthur Marsden

Clothes Make the Woman (1928)
as Victor Trent
The Voice Within (1929)
Actor

Marriage License? (1926)
as Paul
Swiss Family Robinson (1958)
as Anton (Father)

Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Paul de St. Cyr

The 13th Juror (1927)
as Richard Marsden

The Hot Heiress (1931)
as Clay
Good Badminton (1934)
as Walter





