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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
Fritz Lang, drawings for a film
1989
as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)
A short film using parts of the storyboard drawings for Fritz Lang's Man Hunt given to the French Cinémathèque to recreate a scene to showcase a part ...

Sextette
1978
as The Chairman
Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an ...

Two-Minute Warning
1976
as The Pickpocket
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter ...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Grayson's Butler
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Judge Trenchard
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...

Murder on Flight 502
1975
as Charlie Parkins
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

You Lie So Deep, My Love
1975
as Uncle Joe Padway
A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder.
The Lion Roars Again
1975
as Self
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974
as John Pahlman
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri...

Live Again, Die Again
1974
as Thomas Carmichael
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter...

Harry in Your Pocket
1973
as Casey
A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets.

The Neptune Factor
1973
as Dr. Samuel Andrews
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Skyjacked
1972
as Sen. Arne Lindner
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

The Screaming Woman
1972
as Dr. Amos Larkin
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman com...

The Mask of Sheba
1970
as Dr. Max van Condon
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.

House on Greenapple Road
1970
as Mayor Jack Parker
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.

Rascal
1969
as Sterling North (voice)
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his fathe...

Funny Girl
1968
as Florenz Ziegfeld
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Fol...

The Vatican Affair
1968
as Herbert Cummings
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Warning Shot
1967
as Orville Ames
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation
1967
as Lewis Gannet
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

Cinderella
1965
as King
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script ...

The Shortest Day
1963
as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Two Colonels
1963
as Colonello Henderson
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.

Big Red
1962
as James Haggin
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs...

Advise & Consent
1962
as Senate Majority Leader
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired b...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
as Admiral Harriman Nelson
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

Meet Me in St. Louis
1959
as Alonzo Smith
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Swiss Family Robinson
1958
as Father
T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson. A family is shipwrecked in the South Pacific and finds themselves stranded on a tropical island. T...

The Rack
1956
as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chines...

These Wilder Years
1956
as James Rayburn
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

Forbidden Planet
1956
as Dr. Edward Morbius
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty ye...

The Glass Slipper
1955
as Narrator (voice)
In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.

Hit the Deck
1955
as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

Deep in My Heart
1954
as J.J. Shubert
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954
as James Ellswirth
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her siste...

Men of the Fighting Lady
1954
as Cmdr. Dowling
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy an...

Executive Suite
1954
as Frederick Y. Alderson
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.

Dream Wife
1953
as Walter McBride
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much ...

Scandal at Scourie
1953
as Patrick J. McChesney
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a...

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Harry Pebbel
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
The Hoaxters
1952
as Narrator (voice)
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life.

Million Dollar Mermaid
1952
as Frederick Kellerman
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

The Sellout
1952
as Haven D. Allridge
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.

The Unknown Man
1951
as Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Quo Vadis
1951
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...

Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951
as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

Soldiers Three
1951
as Col. Brunswick
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

The Miniver Story
1950
as Clem Miniver
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing...

That Forsyte Woman
1949
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teen...

The Red Danube
1949
as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

Command Decision
1948
as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties ...

Julia Misbehaves
1948
as William Sylvester Packett
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites ...

If Winter Comes
1947
as Mark Sabre
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friend...

The Secret Heart
1946
as Chris Matthews
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase...

Holiday in Mexico
1946
as Jeffrey Evans
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl...

Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
as Chip Collyer
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for ...

Mrs. Parkington
1944
as Major Augustus Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by m...

Twenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Madame Curie
1943
as Pierre Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...

The Youngest Profession
1943
as Walter Pidgeon
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson a...

White Cargo
1942
as Mr. Harry Witzel
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love...

Mrs. Miniver
1942
as Clem Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...

Design for Scandal
1941
as Jeff Sherman
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

How Green Was My Valley
1941
as Mr. Gruffydd
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Blossoms in the Dust
1941
as Sam Gladney
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats ...

Man Hunt
1941
as Captain Alan Thorndike
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured,...

Flight Command
1940
as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression ...

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
as Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...

Sky Murder
1940
as Nick Carter
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US en...

Phantom Raiders
1940
as Nick Carter
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...

Dark Command
1940
as William 'Will' Cantrell
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba...

It's a Date
1940
as John Arlen
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situ...

The House Across the Bay
1940
as Tim Nolan
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...

Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Stronger Than Desire
1939
as Tyler Flagg
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

6,000 Enemies
1939
as Steve Donegan
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Society Lawyer
1939
as Christopher Durant
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help ...

Listen, Darling
1938
as Richard Thurlow
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend ...

Too Hot to Handle
1938
as Bill Dennis
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he m...

The Shopworn Angel
1938
as Sam Bailey
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car ...

The Girl of the Golden West
1938
as Sheriff Jack Rance
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

Man-Proof
1938
as Alan Wythe
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

A Girl with Ideas
1937
as Mickey McGuire
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
as Ken Morley
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

Saratoga
1937
as Hartley Madison
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

As Good as Married
1937
as Fraser James
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

Girl Overboard
1937
as Paul Stacey
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

She's Dangerous
1937
as Dr. Scott Logan
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

Fatal Lady
1936
as David Roberts
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughl...

Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Richard Morey
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring ...
Good Badminton
1934
as Walter
This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of Badminton...

Journal of a Crime
1934
as Florestan
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933
as Lucy's Lover
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

Rockabye
1932
as Al Howard
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

The Hot Heiress
1931
as Clay
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.

Kiss Me Again
1931
as Paul de St. Cyr
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that...

Going Wild
1930
as 'Ace' Benton
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mist...

Viennese Nights
1930
as Franz von Renner
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renn...

The Gorilla
1930
as Arthur Marsden
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)

Sweet Kitty Bellairs
1930
as Lord Varney
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with he...

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten...

Bride of the Regiment
1930
as Colonel Vultow
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the ...

Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
as Premiere Emcee
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

A Most Immoral Lady
1929
as Tony Williams
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires...

Her Private Life
1929
as Ned Thayer
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
The Voice Within
1929
Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.

Melody of Love
1928
as Jack Clark
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only ab...

Clothes Make the Woman
1928
as Victor Trent
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during t...

Turn Back the Hours
1928
as Philip Drake
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.

Woman Wise
1928
as United States Consul
In Jedda, Persia, American consul George Gage, known as a woman hater, is shocked when his newly arrived assistant, "Billie Baxter," whom he assumes w...

The Gateway of the Moon
1928
as Arthur Wyatt
To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to kill...

The Gorilla
1927
as Stevens
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

The 13th Juror
1927
as Richard Marsden
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anthony. It is based on the 1908 play Counsel for the ...

The Girl from Rio
1927
as Paul Sinclair
1927 picture starring Carmel Myers and Walter Pidgeon.

The Heart of Salome
1927
as Monte Carroll
1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.

Marriage License?
1926
as Paul
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lad...

Miss Nobody
1926
as Bravo
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dr...

Old Loves and New
1926
as Clyde Lord Geradine
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in tur...

The Outsider
1926
as Basil Owen
Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic faith healer who falls in love with the young woman...

Mannequin
1926
as Martin Innesbrook
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised...