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Walter Pidgeon

Born 1897-09-22

Died 1984-09-25

📍 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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 142

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies

as Self - (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

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

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film

as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)

as The Chairman

Two-Minute Warning

as The Pickpocket

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

as Grayson's Butler

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Judge Trenchard

Murder on Flight 502

as Charlie Parkins

You Lie So Deep, My Love

as Uncle Joe Padway

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

as John Pahlman

Live Again, Die Again

as Thomas Carmichael

The Snoop Sisters

as Keith Follett

Harry in Your Pocket

The Neptune Factor

as Dr. Samuel Andrews

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Sen. Arne Lindner

The Screaming Woman

as Dr. Amos Larkin

The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Max van Condon

House on Greenapple Road

as Mayor Jack Parker

as Sterling North (voice)

as Florenz Ziegfeld

The Vatican Affair

as Herbert Cummings

The Danny Thomas Hour

as Jason Merrill

as Orville Ames

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

as Lewis Gannet

as Lord Dunsmore

as B.G. Perkins

The Shortest Day

as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)

as Colonello Henderson

The Merv Griffin Show

as James Haggin

Advise & Consent

as Senate Majority Leader

as Dr. Charles Priest

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Admiral Harriman Nelson

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Alonzo Smith

as General Augustus Perry

The All-Star Christmas Show

as Sherman Hatfield

as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

These Wilder Years

as James Rayburn

Forbidden Planet

as Dr. Edward Morbius

The Glass Slipper

as Narrator (voice)

as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith

Deep in My Heart

as J.J. Shubert

The Last Time I Saw Paris

as James Ellswirth

Men of the Fighting Lady

as Cmdr. Dowling

Executive Suite

as Frederick Y. Alderson

as Walter McBride

Scandal at Scourie

as Patrick J. McChesney

The Bad and the Beautiful

as Harry Pebbel

Million Dollar Mermaid

as Frederick Kellerman

as Haven D. Allridge

The Unknown Man

as Dwight Bradley Masen

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

as Col. Brunswick

The Miniver Story

as Clem Miniver

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

That Forsyte Woman

as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

Command Decision

as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

Julia Misbehaves

as William Sylvester Packett

The Ed Sullivan Show

If Winter Comes

The Secret Heart

as Chris Matthews

Holiday in Mexico

as Jeffrey Evans

Week-End at the Waldorf

as Chip Collyer

Mrs. Parkington

as Major Augustus Parkington

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

as Pierre Curie

The Youngest Profession

as Walter Pidgeon

as Mr. Harry Witzel

as Clem Miniver

Design for Scandal

as Jeff Sherman

How Green Was My Valley

as Mr. Gruffydd

Blossoms in the Dust

as Captain Alan Thorndike

as Squadron Commander Billy Gary

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Phantom Raiders

as William 'Will' Cantrell

The House Across the Bay

Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

Stronger Than Desire

as Steve Donegan

as Christopher Durant

Listen, Darling

as Richard Thurlow

Too Hot to Handle

The Shopworn Angel

The Girl of the Golden West

as Sheriff Jack Rance

A Girl with Ideas

as Mickey McGuire

My Dear Miss Aldrich

as Hartley Madison

As Good as Married

as Fraser James

She's Dangerous

as Dr. Scott Logan

as David Roberts

as Richard Morey

Journal of a Crime

The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Lucy's Lover

The Hot Heiress

as Paul de St. Cyr

as 'Ace' Benton

Viennese Nights

as Franz von Renner

as Arthur Marsden

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

Bride of the Regiment

as Colonel Vultow

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Premiere Emcee

A Most Immoral Lady

as Tony Williams

Her Private Life

Clothes Make the Woman

as Victor Trent

Turn Back the Hours

as Philip Drake

as United States Consul

The Gateway of the Moon

as Arthur Wyatt

as Richard Marsden

The Girl from Rio

as Paul Sinclair

The Heart of Salome

as Monte Carroll

Marriage License?

Old Loves and New

as Clyde Lord Geradine

as Martin Innesbrook