Walter Pidgeon

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.

Born

Sep 22, 1897

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

Sep 25, 1984

Known For

Acting

Movies

128 acting

0 crew

Popularity

0.7

movie

Known For

Forbidden Planet

1956

as Dr. Edward Morbius

Quo Vadis

1951

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Funny Girl

1968

as Florenz Ziegfeld

Mrs. Miniver

1942

as Clem Miniver

How Green Was My Valley

1941

as Mr. Gruffydd

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

as Harry Pebbel

Advise & Consent

1962

as Senate Majority Leader

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961

as Admiral Harriman Nelson

Man Hunt

1941

as Captain Alan Thorndike

Forbidden Planet

1956 • as Dr. Edward Morbius

★ 7.3

Quo Vadis

1951 • as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

★ 7.1

Funny Girl

1968 • as Florenz Ziegfeld

★ 7.2

Mrs. Miniver

1942 • as Clem Miniver

★ 7.1

The Last Time I Saw Paris

1954 • as James Ellswirth

★ 6.2

Cinderella

1965 • as King

★ 6.5

How Green Was My Valley

1941 • as Mr. Gruffydd

★ 7.3

That's Entertainment!

1974 • as (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.4

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952 • as Harry Pebbel

★ 7.3

Advise & Consent

1962 • as Senate Majority Leader

★ 7.2

Dark Command

1940 • as William 'Will' Cantrell

★ 6.3

Skyjacked

1972 • as Sen. Arne Lindner

★ 6.1

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.0

Executive Suite

1954 • as Frederick Y. Alderson

★ 7.0

Two-Minute Warning

1976 • as The Pickpocket

★ 6.2

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961 • as Admiral Harriman Nelson

★ 5.6

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976 • as Grayson's Butler

★ 4.1

Madame Curie

1943 • as Pierre Curie

★ 7.2

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945 • as Chip Collyer

★ 6.2

Sextette

1978 • as The Chairman

★ 3.7

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991 • as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.7

Man Hunt

1941 • as Captain Alan Thorndike

★ 6.9

Deep in My Heart

1954 • as J.J. Shubert

★ 6.7

Million Dollar Mermaid

1952 • as Frederick Kellerman

★ 6.4

The Shortest Day

1963 • as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)

★ 6.2

The Rack

1956 • as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

★ 6.5

The Unknown Man

1951 • as Dwight Bradley Masen

★ 4.8

Warning Shot

1967 • as Orville Ames

★ 6.3

Big Brown Eyes

1936 • as Richard Morey

★ 6.3

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 • as (archive footage)

★ 6.9

The Neptune Factor

1973 • as Dr. Samuel Andrews

★ 4.9

Nick Carter, Master Detective

1939 • as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

★ 5.7

The Glass Slipper

1955 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 6.1

Julia Misbehaves

1948 • as William Sylvester Packett

★ 6.5

Command Decision

1948 • as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

★ 6.4

House on Greenapple Road

1970 • as Mayor Jack Parker

★ 7.0

The Screaming Woman

1972 • as Dr. Amos Larkin

★ 6.6

White Cargo

1942 • as Mr. Harry Witzel

★ 5.8

Hit the Deck

1955 • as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith

★ 4.6

Soldiers Three

1951 • as Col. Brunswick

★ 3.8

Dream Wife

1953 • as Walter McBride

★ 5.3

Murder on Flight 502

1975 • as Charlie Parkins

★ 5.7

Rockabye

1932 • as Al Howard

★ 6.2

Rascal

1969 • as Sterling North (voice)

★ 5.8

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

1976 • as Judge Trenchard

★ 6.4

Twenty Years After

1944 • as (archive footage)

★ 6.0

Saratoga

1937 • as Hartley Madison

★ 6.4

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 • as Sam Gladney

★ 6.6

The House Across the Bay

1940 • as Tim Nolan

★ 5.5

Too Hot to Handle

1938 • as Bill Dennis

★ 5.8

The All-Star Christmas Show

1958 • as Self

★ 6.0

Listen, Darling

1938 • as Richard Thurlow

★ 6.5

Mrs. Parkington

1944 • as Major Augustus Parkington

★ 5.9

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940 • as Self

★ 6.7

These Wilder Years

1956 • as James Rayburn

★ 6.3

The Kiss Before the Mirror

1933 • as Lucy's Lover

★ 5.4

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

1967 • as Lewis Gannet

★ 2.7

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The Lion Roars Again

1975 • as Self

Harry in Your Pocket

1973 • as Casey

★ 5.6

The Gateway of the Moon

1928 • as Arthur Wyatt

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The Hoaxters

1952 • as Narrator (voice)

★ 4.2

Show Girl in Hollywood

1930 • as Premiere Emcee

★ 5.4

Sky Murder

1940 • as Nick Carter

★ 6.3

It's a Date

1940 • as John Arlen

★ 5.9

The Youngest Profession

1943 • as Walter Pidgeon

★ 4.7

The Mask of Sheba

1970 • as Dr. Max van Condon

The Girl from Rio

1927 • as Paul Sinclair

Fatal Lady

1936 • as David Roberts

The Girl of the Golden West

1938 • as Sheriff Jack Rance

★ 4.6

Scandal at Scourie

1953 • as Patrick J. McChesney

★ 6.7

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930 • as Self

★ 3.4

If Winter Comes

1947 • as Mark Sabre

★ 6.6

Live Again, Die Again

1974 • as Thomas Carmichael

★ 8.0

Big Red

1962 • as James Haggin

★ 5.6

Miss Nobody

1926 • as Bravo

Holiday in Mexico

1946 • as Jeffrey Evans

★ 6.2

Men of the Fighting Lady

1954 • as Cmdr. Dowling

★ 6.2

Society Lawyer

1939 • as Christopher Durant

★ 5.0

You Lie So Deep, My Love

1975 • as Uncle Joe Padway

★ 1.0

That Forsyte Woman

1949 • as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

★ 5.7

Viennese Nights

1930 • as Franz von Renner

★ 2.0

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

1974 • as John Pahlman

★ 5.2

The Gorilla

1927 • as Stevens

Man-Proof

1938 • as Alan Wythe

★ 4.3

Phantom Raiders

1940 • as Nick Carter

★ 6.1

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies

Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies

2022 • as Self - (archive footage)

Journal of a Crime

1934 • as Florestan

★ 5.7

The Miniver Story

1950 • as Clem Miniver

★ 6.0

The Secret Heart

1946 • as Chris Matthews

★ 6.3

Kiss Me Again

1931 • as Paul de St. Cyr

★ 6.0

Going Wild

1930 • as 'Ace' Benton

★ 6.0

Melody of Love

1928 • as Jack Clark

Bride of the Regiment

1930 • as Colonel Vultow

★ 6.0

Meet Me in St. Louis

1959 • as Alonzo Smith

★ 5.0

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

1930 • as Lord Varney

★ 5.0

My Dear Miss Aldrich

1937 • as Ken Morley

★ 6.1

6,000 Enemies

1939 • as Steve Donegan

★ 6.0

The Shopworn Angel

1938 • as Sam Bailey

★ 6.7

Stronger Than Desire

1939 • as Tyler Flagg

★ 5.1

Her Private Life

1929 • as Ned Thayer

★ 1.0

The Sellout

1952 • as Haven D. Allridge

★ 5.1

Clothes Make the Woman

1928 • as Victor Trent

As Good as Married

1937 • as Fraser James

★ 7.0

Two Colonels

1963 • as Colonello Henderson

★ 7.5

A Most Immoral Lady

1929 • as Tony Williams

★ 1.0

The Outsider

1926 • as Basil Owen

The Hot Heiress

1931 • as Clay

★ 5.3

Turn Back the Hours

1928 • as Philip Drake

Old Loves and New

1926 • as Clyde Lord Geradine

★ 2.3

Woman Wise

1928 • as United States Consul

She's Dangerous

1937 • as Dr. Scott Logan

★ 5.0

Design for Scandal

1941 • as Jeff Sherman

★ 4.9

Girl Overboard

1937 • as Paul Stacey

The Red Danube

1949 • as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

★ 6.3

Calling Bulldog Drummond

1951 • as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

★ 5.8

Mannequin

1926 • as Martin Innesbrook

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Swiss Family Robinson

1958 • as Anton (Father)

Flight Command

1940 • as Squadron Commander Billy Gary

★ 5.6

A Girl with Ideas

1937 • as Mickey McGuire

The Vatican Affair

1968 • as Herbert Cummings

★ 3.1

The 13th Juror

1927 • as Richard Marsden

The Gorilla

1930 • as Arthur Marsden

Marriage License?

1926 • as Paul

The Heart of Salome

1927 • as Monte Carroll

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Good Badminton

1934 • as Walter

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The Voice Within

1929

movie

Anniversary

1963 • as Himself - Host

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film

1989 • as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)