Walter Pidgeon

Actor Sep 22 (died age 87) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 1926–2022 (96 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Forbidden Planet

Dr. Edward Morbius

Film

How Green Was My Valley

Mr. Gruffydd

Film

Funny Girl

Florenz Ziegfeld

Film

Quo Vadis

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Film

The Bad and the Beautiful

Harry Pebbel

Film

Mrs. Miniver

Clem Miniver

Film

Advise & Consent

Senate Majority Leader

Film

Man Hunt

Captain Alan Thorndike

Filmography

Acting (147)

Movies (128)

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies

2022

as Self - (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

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

7.7

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film

1989

as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)

Sextette

1978

as The Chairman

3.7

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Judge Trenchard

Two-Minute Warning

as The Pickpocket

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

as Grayson's Butler

4.1

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976

as (archive footage)

6.9

The Lion Roars Again

1975

as Self

You Lie So Deep, My Love

as Uncle Joe Padway

Murder on Flight 502

as Charlie Parkins

That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.4

Live Again, Die Again

1974

as Thomas Carmichael

8.0

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

1974

as John Pahlman

5.2

The Neptune Factor

1973

as Dr. Samuel Andrews

Harry in Your Pocket

as Casey

The Screaming Woman

as Dr. Amos Larkin

Skyjacked

as Sen. Arne Lindner

The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Max van Condon

House on Greenapple Road

1970

as Mayor Jack Parker

7.0

Rascal

1969

as Sterling North (voice)

Funny Girl

as Florenz Ziegfeld

The Vatican Affair

as Herbert Cummings

Warning Shot

as Orville Ames

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

as Lewis Gannet

Cinderella

as King

The Shortest Day

as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)

6.2

Anniversary

1963

as Himself - Host

Two Colonels

1963

as Colonello Henderson

Big Red

as James Haggin

Advise & Consent

as Senate Majority Leader

7.1

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961

as Admiral Harriman Nelson

5.6

Meet Me in St. Louis

1959

as Alonzo Smith

5.0

Swiss Family Robinson

1958

as Anton (Father)

The All-Star Christmas Show

1958

as Self

6.0

Forbidden Planet

1956

as Dr. Edward Morbius

7.3

The Rack

1956

as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

These Wilder Years

as James Rayburn

The Glass Slipper

as Narrator (voice)

Hit the Deck

as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith

4.6

Men of the Fighting Lady

1954

as Cmdr. Dowling

6.2

The Last Time I Saw Paris

as James Ellswirth

Deep in My Heart

as J.J. Shubert

Executive Suite

as Frederick Y. Alderson

Dream Wife

as Walter McBride

Scandal at Scourie

as Patrick J. McChesney

6.7

Million Dollar Mermaid

1952

as Frederick Kellerman

6.4

The Bad and the Beautiful

as Harry Pebbel

The Hoaxters

as Narrator (voice)

The Sellout

as Haven D. Allridge

Quo Vadis

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

7.1

Soldiers Three

1951

as Col. Brunswick

3.8

Calling Bulldog Drummond

1951

as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

5.8

The Unknown Man

1951

as Dwight Bradley Masen

The Miniver Story

as Clem Miniver

That Forsyte Woman

as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

5.8

The Red Danube

1949

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

6.3

Command Decision

1948

as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

6.4

Julia Misbehaves

1948

as William Sylvester Packett

If Winter Comes

as Mark Sabre

The Secret Heart

as Chris Matthews

Holiday in Mexico

as Jeffrey Evans

Week-End at the Waldorf

as Chip Collyer

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

Mrs. Parkington

as Major Augustus Parkington

5.9

Madame Curie

1943

as Pierre Curie

7.2

The Youngest Profession

as Walter Pidgeon

Mrs. Miniver

as Clem Miniver

White Cargo

as Mr. Harry Witzel

Design for Scandal

as Jeff Sherman

How Green Was My Valley

1941

as Mr. Gruffydd

7.3

Man Hunt

1941

as Captain Alan Thorndike

Blossoms in the Dust

as Sam Gladney

Phantom Raiders

as Nick Carter

It's a Date

as John Arlen

Sky Murder

as Nick Carter

Dark Command

as William 'Will' Cantrell

6.3

Flight Command

1940

as Squadron Commander Billy Gary

5.6

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940

as Self

6.7

The House Across the Bay

as Tim Nolan

Stronger Than Desire

as Tyler Flagg

Society Lawyer

as Christopher Durant

5.0

6,000 Enemies

1939

as Steve Donegan

6.0

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939

as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

Man-Proof

as Alan Wythe

The Shopworn Angel

as Sam Bailey

Listen, Darling

as Richard Thurlow

Too Hot to Handle

as Bill Dennis

The Girl of the Golden West

1938

as Sheriff Jack Rance

My Dear Miss Aldrich

as Ken Morley

Saratoga

as Hartley Madison

Girl Overboard

as Paul Stacey

She's Dangerous

as Dr. Scott Logan

As Good as Married

as Fraser James

A Girl with Ideas

as Mickey McGuire

Big Brown Eyes

1936

as Richard Morey

6.3

Fatal Lady

1936

as David Roberts

Good Badminton

1934

as Walter

Journal of a Crime

1934

as Florestan

5.7

The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Lucy's Lover

Rockabye

as Al Howard

The Hot Heiress

as Clay

Kiss Me Again

as Paul de St. Cyr

The Gorilla

as Arthur Marsden

Viennese Nights

as Franz von Renner

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

as Lord Varney

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Premiere Emcee

Going Wild

as 'Ace' Benton

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930

as Self

3.4

Bride of the Regiment

as Colonel Vultow

The Voice Within

Her Private Life

as Ned Thayer

A Most Immoral Lady

as Tony Williams

Turn Back the Hours

as Philip Drake

Woman Wise

1928

as United States Consul

The Gateway of the Moon

1928

as Arthur Wyatt

Melody of Love

1928

as Jack Clark

Clothes Make the Woman

1928

as Victor Trent

The Girl from Rio

1927

as Paul Sinclair

The 13th Juror

1927

as Richard Marsden

The Heart of Salome

1927

as Monte Carroll

The Gorilla

1927

as Stevens

Miss Nobody

1926

as Bravo

Mannequin

1926

as Martin Innesbrook

Old Loves and New

1926

as Clyde Lord Geradine

2.3

The Outsider

1926

as Basil Owen

Marriage License?

1926

as Paul

Television (19)

Gibbsville

1976

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

The Snoop Sisters

as Keith Follett

The Danny Thomas Hour

as Jason Merrill

The F.B.I.

as Leo Roland

Daniel Boone

as Lord Dunsmore

Burke's Law

as B.G. Perkins

Breaking Point

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

Dr. Kildare

1961

as Dr. Charles Priest

Checkmate

as John Baker

Rawhide

as General Augustus Perry

7.2

Perry Mason

1957

as Sherman Hatfield

7.7

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as Jess Clark

6.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956

as Self

6.0

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter