Walter Pidgeon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-09-22 (87 years old)

Deathday

1984-09-25

Place of Birth

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Walter Pidgeon

Biography

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.

Acting

1961

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Admiral Harriman Nelson

1956

Forbidden Planet

as Dr. Edward Morbius

1948

Command Decision

as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

1941

Man Hunt

as Captain Alan Thorndike

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as The Pickpocket

1952

The Hoaxters

as Narrator (voice)

1952

The Sellout

as Haven D. Allridge

1938

Too Hot to Handle

as Bill Dennis

1952

1965

Cinderella

as King

1978

Sextette

as The Chairman

1942

Mrs. Miniver

as Clem Miniver

1940

Dark Command

as William 'Will' Cantrell

1949

The Red Danube

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

1941

1954

Executive Suite

as Frederick Y. Alderson

1949

That Forsyte Woman

as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

1952

Million Dollar Mermaid

as Frederick Kellerman

1954

Deep in My Heart

as J.J. Shubert

1943

Madame Curie

as Pierre Curie

1938

The Girl of the Golden West

as Sheriff Jack Rance

1962

Big Red

as James Haggin

1973

The Neptune Factor

as Dr. Samuel Andrews

1968

Funny Girl

as Florenz Ziegfeld

1940

1937

Saratoga

as Hartley Madison

1956

These Wilder Years

as James Rayburn

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

1940

Sky Murder

as Nick Carter

1940

Phantom Raiders

as Nick Carter

1962

Advise & Consent

as Senate Majority Leader

1951

The Unknown Man

as Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen

1944

Mrs. Parkington

as Major Augustus Parkington

1955

The Glass Slipper

as Narrator (voice)

1953

Dream Wife

as Walter McBride

1948

Julia Misbehaves

as William Sylvester Packett

1969

Rascal

as Sterling North (voice)

1936

Big Brown Eyes

as Richard Morey

1956

The Rack

as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

1938

Listen, Darling

as Richard Thurlow

1954

Men of the Fighting Lady

as Cmdr. Dowling

1941

Blossoms in the Dust

as Sam Gladney

1950

The Miniver Story

as Clem Miniver

1954

The Last Time I Saw Paris

as James Ellswirth

1945

1963

Two Colonels

as Colonello Henderson

1941

Design for Scandal

as Jeff Sherman

1940

Flight Command

as Squadron Commander Billy Gary

1972

Skyjacked

as Sen. Arne Lindner

1967

Warning Shot

as Orville Ames

1942

White Cargo

as Mr. Harry Witzel

1938

The Shopworn Angel

as Sam Bailey

1975

Murder on Flight 502

as Charlie Parkins

1943

The Youngest Profession

as Walter Pidgeon

1930

Going Wild

as 'Ace' Benton

1955

Hit the Deck

as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith

2018

1946

Holiday in Mexico

as Jeffrey Evans

1940

It's a Date

as John Arlen

1947

If Winter Comes

as Mark Sabre

1951

Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

1972

The Screaming Woman

as Dr. Amos Larkin

1937

1951

Soldiers Three

as Col. Brunswick

1934

Journal of a Crime

as Florestan

1939

Stronger Than Desire

as Tyler Flagg

1939

Society Lawyer

as Christopher Durant

1931

1938

Man-Proof

as Alan Wythe

1975

You Lie So Deep, My Love

as Uncle Joe Padway

1953

Scandal at Scourie

as Patrick J. McChesney

1974

Live Again, Die Again

as Thomas Carmichael

1937

She's Dangerous

as Dr. Scott Logan

1931

Kiss Me Again

as Paul de St. Cyr

1946

The Secret Heart

as Chris Matthews

1976

1930

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

as Lord Varney

1930

Viennese Nights

as Franz von Renner

1930

Bride of the Regiment

as Colonel Vultow

1970

The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Max van Condon

1939

6,000 Enemies

as Steve Donegan

1970

House on Greenapple Road

as Mayor Jack Parker

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Premiere Emcee

1968

The Vatican Affair

as Herbert Cummings

1936

Fatal Lady

as David Roberts

1989

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film

as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)

1932

Rockabye

as Al Howard

1951

Quo Vadis

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1927

The Gorilla

as Stevens

1930

The Gorilla

as Arthur Marsden

1974

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1933

1937

A Girl with Ideas

as Mickey McGuire

1959

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Alonzo Smith

1926

Mannequin

as Martin Innesbrook

1928

Clothes Make the Woman

as Victor Trent

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1937

As Good as Married

as Fraser James

1937

Girl Overboard

as Paul Stacey

1926

Miss Nobody

as Bravo

1928

Melody of Love

as Jack Clark

1928

Turn Back the Hours

as Philip Drake

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1926

The Outsider

as Basil Owen

1927

The Girl from Rio

as Paul Sinclair

1926

Old Loves and New

as Clyde Lord Geradine

1927

The Heart of Salome

as Monte Carroll

1929

Her Private Life

as Ned Thayer

1928

1927

The 13th Juror

as Richard Marsden

1928

Woman Wise

as United States Consul

1929

A Most Immoral Lady

as Tony Williams

1934

1963

The Shortest Day

as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)

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