Walter Pidgeon
Born: 1897-09-22 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 1984-09-25
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2018
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
- Fritz Lang, drawings for a film as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)
1978
- Sextette as The Chairman
1976
- Two-Minute Warning as The Pickpocket
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Judge Trenchard
- Gibbsville
- Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Grayson's Butler
1975
- Murder on Flight 502 as Charlie Parkins
- You Lie So Deep, My Love as Uncle Joe Padway
- The Lion Roars Again as Self
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Live Again, Die Again as Thomas Carmichael
- The Girl on the Late, Late Show as John Pahlman
1973
- Harry in Your Pocket as Casey
- The Neptune Factor as Dr. Samuel Andrews
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- The Snoop Sisters as Keith Follett
1972
- Skyjacked as Sen. Arne Lindner
- The Screaming Woman as Dr. Amos Larkin
1970
- House on Greenapple Road as Mayor Jack Parker
- The Mask of Sheba as Dr. Max van Condon
1969
- Rascal as Sterling North (voice)
1968
- Funny Girl as Florenz Ziegfeld
- The Vatican Affair as Herbert Cummings
1967
- Warning Shot as Orville Ames
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation as Lewis Gannet
- The Danny Thomas Hour as Jason Merrill
1965
- Cinderella as King
- The F.B.I. as Leo Roland
1964
- Daniel Boone as Lord Dunsmore
1963
- Burke's Law as B.G. Perkins
- The Shortest Day as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
- Breaking Point
- Anniversary as Himself - Host
- Two Colonels as Colonello Henderson
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Big Red as James Haggin
- Advise & Consent as Senate Majority Leader
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Charles Priest
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Admiral Harriman Nelson
1960
- Checkmate as John Baker
1959
- Rawhide as General Augustus Perry
- Meet Me in St. Louis as Alonzo Smith
1958
- The All-Star Christmas Show as Self
- Swiss Family Robinson as Father
1957
- Perry Mason as Sherman Hatfield
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jess Clark
- The Rack as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- These Wilder Years as James Rayburn
- Forbidden Planet as Dr. Edward Morbius
1955
- The Glass Slipper as Narrator (voice)
- Hit the Deck as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
1954
- Executive Suite as Frederick Y. Alderson
- The Last Time I Saw Paris as James Ellswirth
- Men of the Fighting Lady as Cmdr. Dowling
- Deep in My Heart as J.J. Shubert
1953
- Dream Wife as Walter McBride
- Scandal at Scourie as Patrick J. McChesney
1952
- The Bad and the Beautiful as Harry Pebbel
- Million Dollar Mermaid as Frederick Kellerman
- The Sellout as Haven D. Allridge
- The Hoaxters as Narrator (voice)
1951
- Soldiers Three as Col. Brunswick
- Quo Vadis as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Unknown Man as Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen
- Calling Bulldog Drummond as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Miniver Story as Clem Miniver
1949
- That Forsyte Woman as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
- The Red Danube as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Julia Misbehaves as William Sylvester Packett
- Command Decision as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
1947
- If Winter Comes as Mark Sabre
1946
- The Secret Heart as Chris Matthews
- Holiday in Mexico as Jeffrey Evans
1945
- Week-End at the Waldorf as Chip Collyer
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Mrs. Parkington as Major Augustus Parkington
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943
- Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
- The Youngest Profession as Walter Pidgeon
1942
- Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
- White Cargo as Mr. Harry Witzel
1941
- Man Hunt as Captain Alan Thorndike
- Blossoms in the Dust as Sam Gladney
- Design for Scandal as Jeff Sherman
- How Green Was My Valley as Mr. Gruffydd
1940
- Phantom Raiders as Nick Carter
- Sky Murder as Nick Carter
- Dark Command as William 'Will' Cantrell
- It's a Date as John Arlen
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- The House Across the Bay as Tim Nolan
- Flight Command as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
1939
- Society Lawyer as Christopher Durant
- Stronger Than Desire as Tyler Flagg
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
- 6,000 Enemies as Steve Donegan
1938
- Man-Proof as Alan Wythe
- Listen, Darling as Richard Thurlow
- Too Hot to Handle as Bill Dennis
- The Girl of the Golden West as Sheriff Jack Rance
- The Shopworn Angel as Sam Bailey
1937
- Girl Overboard as Paul Stacey
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as Ken Morley
- As Good as Married as Fraser James
- She's Dangerous as Dr. Scott Logan
- A Girl with Ideas as Mickey McGuire
- Saratoga as Hartley Madison
1936
- Big Brown Eyes as Richard Morey
- Fatal Lady as David Roberts
1934
- Good Badminton as Walter
- Journal of a Crime as Florestan
1933
- The Kiss Before the Mirror as Lucy's Lover
1932
- Rockabye as Al Howard
1931
- The Hot Heiress as Clay
- Kiss Me Again as Paul de St. Cyr
1930
- The Gorilla as Arthur Marsden
- Viennese Nights as Franz von Renner
- Going Wild as 'Ace' Benton
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- Bride of the Regiment as Colonel Vultow
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Premiere Emcee
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs as Lord Varney
1929
- The Voice Within
- Her Private Life as Ned Thayer
- A Most Immoral Lady as Tony Williams
1928
- Turn Back the Hours as Philip Drake
- Woman Wise as United States Consul
- Clothes Make the Woman as Victor Trent
- The Gateway of the Moon as Arthur Wyatt
- Melody of Love as Jack Clark
1927
- The Gorilla as Stevens
- The 13th Juror as Richard Marsden
- The Heart of Salome as Monte Carroll
- The Girl from Rio as Paul Sinclair
1926
- The Outsider as Basil Owen
- Miss Nobody as Bravo
- Mannequin as Martin Innesbrook
- Old Loves and New as Clyde Lord Geradine
- Marriage License? as Paul