Reginald Gardiner

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-02-27 (77 years old)

Deathday

1980-07-07

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Reginald Gardiner

Biography

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...

Acting

1940

The Great Dictator

as Commander Schultz

1939

1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Beverly Carlton

1942

Captains of the Clouds

as Scrounger Harris (bush pilot)

1945

1962

1957

The Story of Mankind

as William Shakespeare

1938

Everybody Sing

as Jerrold Hope

1943

Forever and a Day

as Assistant Hotel Manager

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Comte d'Artois

1936

Born to Dance

as Policeman

1954

Black Widow

as Brian Mullen

1965

Do Not Disturb

as Simmons

1951

Halls of Montezuma

as Sgt. Randolph Johnson

1945

The Horn Blows at Midnight

as Composer / Archie Dexter

1941

A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Roger Pillby

1941

My Life with Caroline

as Paul Martindale

1948

1946

Cluny Brown

as Hilary Ames

1965

Sergeant Deadhead

as Lt. Comm. Talbott

1941

Sundown

as Lieutenant Roddy Turner

1946

Do You Love Me

as Herbert Benham

1940

1950

Wabash Avenue

as English Eddie

1948

That Wonderful Urge

as Count André de Guyon

1948

Fury at Furnace Creek

as Capt. Grover A. Walsh

1940

Dulcy

as Schuyler Van Dyke

1935

1943

Claudia

as Jerry Seymour

1938

1951

Elopement

as Roger Evans

1958

Rock-a-Bye Baby

as Harold Hermann

1961

Back Street

as Dalian

1964

1952

1955

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Anatole Piermont Rogers

1958

No Time at All

as Felix Allardyce

1943

Immortal Sergeant

as Tom Benedict

1943

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

as Charles, Duke of Trippenham

1933

Leave It to Smith

as Lord Redwood

1945

Molly and Me

as Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler

1955

Alice in Wonderland

as White Knight

1927

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

as Dancer at Ball (uncredited)

1945

The Dolly Sisters

as Tony, Duke of Breck

1946

One More Tomorrow

as James 'Jim' Aloysius Fisk

1932

Flat No. 9

as Peter Merridew

1931

The Perfect Lady

as Lord Tony Carderay

1938

Sweethearts

as Norman Trumpett

1939

The Night of Nights

as J. Neville Prime

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