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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1897-09-22

Died: 1984-09-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1926	Mannequin	Martin Innesbrook	0
2	1926	The Outsider	Basil Owen	0
3	1926	Old Loves and New	Clyde Lord Geradine	30
4	1926	Miss Nobody	Bravo	0
5	1926	Marriage License?	Paul	0
6	1927	The Heart of Salome	Monte Carroll	0
7	1927	Sumuru	Paul Sinclair	0
8	1927	The Gorilla	Stevens	0
9	1927	The 13th Juror	Richard Marsden	0
10	1928	The Gateway of the Moon	Arthur Wyatt	0
11	1928	Woman Wise	United States Consul	0
12	1928	Turn Back the Hours	Philip Drake	0
13	1928	Clothes Make the Woman	Victor Trent	0
14	1928	Melody of Love	Jack Clark	0
15	1929	The Voice Within		0
16	1929	Her Private Life	Ned Thayer	10
17	1929	A Most Immoral Lady	Tony Williams	10
18	1930	Show Girl in Hollywood	Premiere Emcee	58
19	1930	Bride of the Regiment	Colonel Vultow	60
20	1930	An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee	Self	34
21	1930	Sweet Kitty Bellairs	Lord Varney	50
22	1930	The Gorilla	Arthur Marsden	0
23	1930	Viennese Nights	Franz von Renner	20
24	1930	Going Wild	'Ace' Benton	60
25	1931	Kiss Me Again	Paul de St. Cyr	60
26	1931	The Hot Heiress	Clay	53
27	1932	Rockabye	Al Howard	62
28	1933	The Kiss Before the Mirror	Lucy's Lover	55
29	1934	Journal of a Crime	Florestan	57
30	1934	Good Badminton	Walter	0
31	1936	Big Brown Eyes	Richard Morey	63
32	1936	Fatal Lady	David Roberts	0
33	1937	She's Dangerous	Dr. Scott Logan	50
34	1937	Girl Overboard	Paul Stacey	0
35	1937	As Good as Married	Fraser James	70
36	1937	Saratoga	Hartley Madison	63
37	1937	My Dear Miss Aldrich	Ken Morley	61
38	1937	A Girl with Ideas	Mickey McGuire	0
39	1938	Man-Proof	Alan Wythe	48
40	1938	The Girl of the Golden West	Sheriff Jack Rance	46
41	1938	The Shopworn Angel	Sam Bailey	71
42	1938	Too Hot to Handle	Bill Dennis	58
43	1938	Listen, Darling	Richard Thurlow	63
44	1939	Society Lawyer	Christopher Durant	51
45	1939	6,000 Enemies	Steve Donegan	60
46	1939	Stronger Than Desire	Tyler Flagg	58
47	1939	Nick Carter, Master Detective	Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers	57
48	1940	The House Across the Bay	Tim Nolan	53
49	1940	It's a Date	John Arlen	64
50	1940	Dark Command	William 'Will' Cantrell	63
51	1940	Phantom Raiders	Nick Carter	61
52	1940	Sky Murder	Nick Carter	63
53	1940	A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound	Self	67
54	1940	Flight Command	Squadron Commander Billy Gary	54
55	1941	Man Hunt	Captain Alan Thorndike	70
56	1941	Blossoms in the Dust	Sam Gladney	65
57	1941	How Green Was My Valley	Mr. Gruffydd	73
58	1941	Design for Scandal	Jeff Sherman	52
59	1942	Mrs. Miniver	Clem Miniver	70
60	1942	White Cargo	Mr. Harry Witzel	58
61	1943	The Youngest Profession	Walter Pidgeon	52
62	1943	Madame Curie	Pierre Curie	72
63	1944	Twenty Years After	(archive footage)	60
64	1944	Mrs. Parkington	Major Augustus Parkington	61
65	1945	Week-End at the Waldorf	Chip Collyer	60
66	1946	Holiday in Mexico	Jeffrey Evans	62
67	1946	The Secret Heart	Chris Matthews	63
68	1947	If Winter Comes	Mark Sabre	66
69	1948	Julia Misbehaves	William Sylvester Packett	65
70	1948	Command Decision	Major General Roland Goodlow Kane	66
71	1949	The Red Danube	Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar	63
72	1949	That Forsyte Woman	le jeune Jolyon Forsyte	59
73	1950	The Miniver Story	Clem Miniver	60
74	1951	Soldiers Three	Col. Brunswick	44
75	1951	Calling Bulldog Drummond	Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond	58
76	1951	Quo Vadis	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	71
77	1951	The Unknown Man	Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen	48
78	1952	The Sellout	Haven D. Allridge	55
79	1952	Million Dollar Mermaid	Frederick Kellerman	64
80	1952	The Hoaxters	Narrator (voice)	42
81	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Harry Pebbel	73
82	1953	Scandal at Scourie	Patrick J. McChesney	67
83	1953	Dream Wife	Walter McBride	55
84	1954	Executive Suite	Frederick Y. Alderson	70
85	1954	Men of the Fighting Lady	Cmdr. Dowling	62
86	1954	The Last Time I Saw Paris	James Ellswirth	60
87	1954	Deep in My Heart	J.J. Shubert	68
88	1955	Hit the Deck	Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith	48
89	1955	The Glass Slipper	Narrator (voice)	63
90	1956	Forbidden Planet	Dr. Edward Morbius	72
91	1956	These Wilder Years	James Rayburn	63
92	1956	The Rack	Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.	66
93	1958	Swiss Family Robinson	Father	0
94	1959	Meet Me in St. Louis	Alonzo Smith	50
95	1961	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Admiral Harriman Nelson	57
96	1962	Big Red	James Haggin	56
97	1962	Advise & Consent	Senate Majority Leader	72
98	1963	Two Colonels	Colonello Henderson	75
99	1963	The Shortest Day	Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)	62
100	1965	Cinderella	King	64
101	1967	How I Spent My Summer Vacation	Lewis Gannet	35
102	1967	Warning Shot	Orville Ames	65
103	1968	The Vatican Affair	Herbert Cummings	45
104	1968	Funny Girl	Florenz Ziegfeld	72
105	1969	Rascal	Sterling North (voice)	58
106	1970	House on Greenapple Road	Mayor Jack Parker	60
107	1970	The Mask of Sheba	Dr. Max van Condon	0
108	1972	The Screaming Woman	Dr. Amos Larkin	67
109	1972	Skyjacked	Sen. Arne Lindner	62
110	1973	The Neptune Factor	Dr. Samuel Andrews	50
111	1973	Harry in Your Pocket	Casey	59
112	1974	Live Again, Die Again	Thomas Carmichael	80
113	1974	The Girl on the Late, Late Show	John Pahlman	55
114	1974	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage) (uncredited)	73
115	1975	The Lion Roars Again	Self	0
116	1975	You Lie So Deep, My Love	Uncle Joe Padway	10
117	1975	Murder on Flight 502	Charlie Parkins	60
118	1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case	Judge Trenchard	64
119	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
120	1976	Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood	Grayson's Butler	41
121	1976	Two-Minute Warning	The Pickpocket	62
122	1978	Sextette	The Chairman	39
123	1989	Fritz Lang, drawings for a film	Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)	0
124	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)	77
125	2018	Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	68
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	68
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	68
5	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	53
6	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jess Clark	55
7	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Dave King	55
8	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	65
9	1957	Perry Mason	Sherman Hatfield	77
10	1959	Rawhide	General Augustus Perry	72
11	1960	Checkmate	John Baker	41
12	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Charles Priest	53
13	1963	Breaking Point		73
14	1963	Burke's Law	B.G. Perkins	60
15	1964	Daniel Boone	Lord Dunsmore	69
16	1965	The F.B.I.	Leo Roland	55
17	1967	The Danny Thomas Hour	Jason Merrill	50
18	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
19	1973	The Snoop Sisters	Keith Follett	72
20	1976	Gibbsville		0