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