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Walter Pidgeon
Highest Rated: 100% Dark Command (1940)
Lowest Rated: 29% Two Minute Warning (1976)
Birthday: Sep 23, 1897
Birthplace: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Handsome, dignified performer, most typically in intelligent, gentlemanly roles, in lead and supporting film parts from the late 1920s. Possessing an attractive singing voice which was almost never heard once he achieved stardom, Pidgeon performed quite creditably in a number of operettas of the early sound years, including such worthy entries in the cycle like "Sweet Kitty Bellairs," "Viennese Nights" (both 1930) and "Kiss Me Again" (1931). He later played smart city slickers, typically second leads who palled around with the hero or lost the woman to a bigger male star; entries here included "Big Brown Eyes" (1936), "Saratoga" (1937) and "Too Hot to Handle" (1938).
Photos
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Judge Trenchard (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 29% | 44% | Two Minute Warning | The Pickpocket (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Murder on Flight 502 | Charlie Parkins (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Lie So Deep, My Love | Uncle Joe Padway (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl on the Late, Late Show | John Pahlman (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live Again, Die Again | Thomas Carmichael (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Harry in Your Pocket | Casey (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 15% | The Neptune Factor | Dr. Samuel Andrews (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Skyjacked | Sen. Arne Lindner (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Screaming Woman | Dr. Amos Larkin (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House on Greenapple Road | Mayor Jack Parker (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quest | Dr. Max van Condon (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mask of Sheba | Dr. Max van Condon (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vatican Affair | Il professore Herbert Cummings (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 94% | 85% | Funny Girl | Florenz Ziegfeld (Character) | $223.3K | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | Warning Shot | Orville Ames (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How I Spent My Summer Vacation | Lewis Gannet (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI | Leo Roland (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Cinderella | King (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Two Colonels | Colonello Timothy Henderson (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Due Colonelli | Colonello Timothy Henderson (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shortest Day | Ernest Hemingway (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 77% | 88% | Advise and Consent | Senate Majority Leader (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Big Red | James Haggin (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 72% | 39% | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Adm. Harriman Nelson (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | These Wilder Years | James Rayburn (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 92% | 85% | Forbidden Planet | Dr. Edward Morbius (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Rack | Col. Edward W. Hall Sr. (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 67% | 57% | Hit the Deck | Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Men of the Fighting Lady | Comdr. Kent Dowling (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Deep in My Heart | J.J. Shubert (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 75% | Executive Suite | Frederick Y. Alderson (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 70% | 49% | The Last Time I Saw Paris | James Ellswirth (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scandal at Scourie | Patrick J. McChesney (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Dream Wife | Walter McBride (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 86% | 69% | Million Dollar Mermaid | Frederick Kellerman (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 80% | 86% | The Bad and the Beautiful | Harry Pebbel (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Sellout | Haven D. Allridge (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Soldiers Three | Col. Brunswick (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Calling Bulldog Drummond | Maj. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Unknown Man | Dwight Bradley `'Brad'` Masen (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Miniver Story | Clem Miniver (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | That Forsyte Woman | Young Jolyon Forsyte (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Red Danube | Col. Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | If Winter Comes | Mark Sabre (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Command Decision | Maj. Gen. Roland Goodlow Kane (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 60% | 79% | Julia Misbehaves | William Sylvester Packett (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Heart | Chris Matthews (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Holiday in Mexico | Jeffrey Evans (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Weekend at the Waldorf | Chip Collyer (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Mrs. Parkington | Major Augustus Parkington (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 88% | 68% | Madame Curie | Pierre Curie (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 19% | White Cargo | Mr. Harry Witzel (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 93% | 84% | Mrs. Miniver | Clem Miniver (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Design for Scandal | Jeff Sherman (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 33% | 70% | Blossoms in the Dust | Sam Gladney (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 93% | 81% | How Green Was My Valley | Mr. Gruffydd, Village Preacher (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 93% | 75% | Man Hunt | Captain Alan Thorndike (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The House Across the Bay | Tim Nolan (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 70% | Dark Command | William 'Will' Cantrell (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight Command | Squadron Cmdr. Billy Gary (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Phantom Raiders | Nick Carter (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sky Murder | Nick Carter (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | It's a Date | John Arlen (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stronger Than Desire | Tyler Flagg (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nick Carter, Master Detective | Nicholas "Nick" Carter (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 6,000 Enemies | Steve Donegan (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Six Thousand Enemies | Unknown (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Society Lawyer | Christopher Durant (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Listen, Darling | Richard Thurlow (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | The Shopworn Angel | Sam Bailey (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Too Hot to Handle | William O. `'Bill'` Dennis (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Girl of the Golden West | Sheriff Jack Rance (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Man-Proof | Alan Wythe (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Saratoga | Hartley Madison (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | As Good as Married | Fraser James (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's Dangerous | Dr. Scott Logan (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl With Ideas | Mickey McGuire (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Dear Miss Aldrich | Kenneth `'Ken'` Morley (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 86% | 57% | Big Brown Eyes | Richard Morey (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fatal Lady | David Roberts (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Rockabye | Commissioner Al Howard (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hot Heiress | Clay (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss Me Again | Paul de St. Cyr (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Wild | "Ace" Benton (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweet Kitty Bellairs | Lord Varney (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Viennese Nights | Franz von Renner (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Show Girl in Hollywood | Premiere Emcee (Character) | - | 1930 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gibbsville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snoop Sisters | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Judge Anderson (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Professor Bayliss (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Sherman Hatfield (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1956 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1958-1959 |