Biography
Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 - 7 July 1980) was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock. Moving to Hollywood, he was cast in numerous roles, often as a British butler. One of his most famous roles was that of Schultz in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Toward the end of his career, Gardiner made increasing guest appearances on the lea...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Do Not Disturb
1965
as Simmons
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with h...

Sergeant Deadhead
1965
as Lt. Comm. Talbott
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the ast...

What a Way to Go!
1964
as Painter
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be ...

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
1962
as Reggie McHugh
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns...

Back Street
1961
as Dalian
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on ...

Rock-a-Bye Baby
1958
as Harold Hermann
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not su...

No Time at All
1958
as Felix Allardyce
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people ...

The Story of Mankind
1957
as William Shakespeare
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

The Birds and the Bees
1956
as Gerald
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's...

Alice in Wonderland
1955
as White Knight
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

Ain't Misbehavin'
1955
as Anatole Piermont Rogers
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.

Black Widow
1954
as Brian Mullen
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

Androcles and the Lion
1952
as Lentulus
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...

Elopement
1951
as Roger Evans
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

Halls of Montezuma
1951
as Sgt. Randolph Johnson
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat...

Wabash Avenue
1950
as English Eddie
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it bac...

That Wonderful Urge
1948
as Count André de Guyon
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely cla...

That Lady in Ermine
1948
as Alberto
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w...

Fury at Furnace Creek
1948
as Capt. Grover A. Walsh
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he...

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
as Will Hough
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye,...

Cluny Brown
1946
as Hilary Ames
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

One More Tomorrow
1946
as James 'Jim' Aloysius Fisk
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the owne...

Do You Love Me
1946
as Herbert Benham
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes ...

The Dolly Sisters
1945
as Tony, Duke of Breck
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

Christmas in Connecticut
1945
as John Sloan
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse...

Molly and Me
1945
as Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.

The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
as Composer / Archie Dexter
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...

Claudia
1943
as Jerry Seymour
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afra...

Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943
as Charles, Duke of Trippenham
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometow...

Immortal Sergeant
1943
as Tom Benedict
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Forever and a Day
1943
as Assistant Hotel Manager
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Captains of the Clouds
1942
as Scrounger Harris (bush pilot)
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
as Beverly Carlton
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

Sundown
1941
as Lieutenant Roddy Turner
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
as Roger Pillby
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

My Life with Caroline
1941
as Paul Martindale
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.

The Great Dictator
1940
as Commander Schultz
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Dulcy
1940
as Schuyler Van Dyke
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's f...

The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
as John Pierce
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

The Night of Nights
1939
as J. Neville Prime
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...

The Flying Deuces
1939
as Francois
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the ...

Sweethearts
1938
as Norman Trumpett
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

The Girl Downstairs
1938
as Willie
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falli...

Marie Antoinette
1938
as Comte d'Artois
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...

Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...

Everybody Sing
1938
as Jerrold Hope
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piec...

A Damsel in Distress
1937
as Keggs
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. Af...

Born to Dance
1936
as Policeman
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broad...
A Little Bit of Bluff
1935
as Hugh Rigby
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.

Radio Parade
1933
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and ...
Leave It to Smith
1933
as Lord Redwood
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Flat No. 9
1932
as Peter Merridew
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson

The Perfect Lady
1931
as Lord Tony Carderay
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
My Old China
1931
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bull Rushes
1931
'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)
Aroma of the South Seas
1931
as The Man
'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
as Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who cl...