Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-02-27 (77 years old)
Deathday
1980-07-07
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also known As
William Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 - 7 July 1980) was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock. Moving to Hollywood, he was cast in numerous roles, often as a British butler. One of his most famous roles was that of Schultz in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Toward the end of his career, Gardiner made increasing guest appearances on the leading television sitcoms of the 1960s, including Fess Parker's ABC series, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the lead guest in the episode "Citizen Bello...
1940
as Commander Schultz
1939
as Francois
1941
as Beverly Carlton
1942
as Scrounger Harris (bush pilot)
1945
as John Sloan
1962
as Reggie McHugh
1957
as William Shakespeare
1938
as Jerrold Hope
1943
as Assistant Hotel Manager
1938
as Comte d'Artois
1936
as Policeman
1954
as Brian Mullen
1965
as Simmons
1951
as Sgt. Randolph Johnson
1945
as Composer / Archie Dexter
1937
as Keggs
1941
as Roger Pillby
1941
as Paul Martindale
1948
as Alberto
1946
as Hilary Ames
1965
as Lt. Comm. Talbott
1941
as Lieutenant Roddy Turner
1946
as Herbert Benham
1940
as John Pierce
1950
as English Eddie
1948
as Count André de Guyon
1948
as Capt. Grover A. Walsh
1956
as Gerald
1940
as Schuyler Van Dyke
1935
as Hugh Rigby
1943
as Jerry Seymour
1938
as Willie
1951
as Roger Evans
1958
as Harold Hermann
1961
as Dalian
1964
as Painter
1952
as Lentulus
1955
as Anatole Piermont Rogers
1958
as Felix Allardyce
1943
as Tom Benedict
1943
as Charles, Duke of Trippenham
1933
as Lord Redwood
1945
as Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler
1931
1933
1931
1955
as White Knight
1927
as Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
1945
as Tony, Duke of Breck
1947
as Will Hough
1946
as James 'Jim' Aloysius Fisk
1931
as The Man
1932
as Peter Merridew
1931
as Lord Tony Carderay
1938
as Self
1938
as Norman Trumpett
1939
as J. Neville Prime
1942
as Self
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