Walter Pidgeon

1897-1984

Biography: life and films

Walter Pidgeon was an American actor. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on 23rd September 1897 and died in Santa Monica, California, USA on 25th September 1984, aged 87.

His best films as an actor include Mervyn LeRoy's Blossoms in the Dust (1941), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942), Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Fred M. Wilcox's thriller Forbidden Planet (1956).

Walter Pidgeon appeared in 98 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: William A. Seiter (3 films), Robert Z. Leonard (3), Richard Thorpe (3), Mervyn LeRoy (3), Jack Conway (3), George B. Seitz (3), William Wyler (2), Victor Saville (2), Tom Terriss (2), Tay Garnett (2), Roy Rowland (2), Raoul Walsh (2), Norman Tokar (2), John Griffith Wray (2), Jacques Tourneur (2), H.C. Potter (2), George Sidney (2), Frank Borzage (2), Edwin L. Marin (2) and Edward Buzzell (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (56 films), romance (24), comedy (14), comedy-romance (12), comedy-drama (11), Thriller (8), War (7), Biography (5) and Western (2).

Our average rating for Walter Pidgeon over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Mannequin (1926) [a]

Marriage License? (1926) [a]

Miss Nobody (1926) [a]

Old Loves and New (1926) [a]

The Outsider (1926) [a]

Heart of Salome (1927) [a]

Sumuru (1927) [a]

The Thirteenth Juror (1927) [a]

Clothes Make the Woman (1928) [a]

Melody of Love (1928) [a]

The Gateway of the Moon (1928) [a]

Turn Back the Hours (1928) [a]

Woman Wise (1928) [a]

A Most Immoral Lady (1929) [a]

Her Private Life (1929) [a]

The Voice Within (1929) [a]

Bride of the Regiment (1930) [a]

Going Wild (1930) [a]

Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930) [a]

The Gorilla (1930) [a]

Viennese Nights (1930) [a]

Kiss Me Again (1931) [a]

The Hot Heiress (1931) [a]

Rockabye (1932) [a]

The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) [a]

Journal of a Crime (1934) [a]

Big Brown Eyes (1936) [a]

Fatal Lady (1936) [a]

A Girl with Ideas (1937) [a]

As Good as Married (1937) [a]

Girl Overboard (1937) [a]

My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) [a]

Saratoga (1937) [a]

She's Dangerous (1937) [a]

Listen, Darling (1938) [a]

Man-Proof (1938) [a]

The Girl of the Golden West (1938) [a]

The Shopworn Angel (1938) [a]

Too Hot to Handle (1938) [a]

6,000 Enemies (1939) [a]

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) [a]

Society Lawyer (1939) [a]

Stronger Than Desire (1939) [a]

Dark Command (1940) [a]

Flight Command (1940) [a]

It's a Date (1940) [a]

Phantom Raiders (1940) [a]

Sky Murder (1940) [a]

The House Across the Bay (1940) [a]

Blossoms in the Dust (1941) [a]

Design for Scandal (1941) [a]

How Green Was My Valley (1941) [a]

Man Hunt (1941) [a]

Mrs. Miniver (1942) [a]

White Cargo (1942) [a]

Madame Curie (1943) [a]

The Youngest Profession (1943) [a]

Mrs. Parkington (1944) [a]

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) [a]

Holiday in Mexico (1946) [a]

The Secret Heart (1946) [a]

If Winter Comes (1947) [a]

Command Decision (1948) [a]

Julia Misbehaves (1948) [a]

That Forsyte Woman (1949) [a]

The Red Danube (1949) [a]

The Miniver Story (1950) [a]

Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951) [a]

Soldiers Three (1951) [a]

The Unknown Man (1951) [a]

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) [a]

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [a]

The Sellout (1952) [a]

Dream Wife (1953) [a]

Scandal at Scourie (1953) [a]

Deep in My Heart (1954) [a]

Executive Suite (1954) [a]

Men of the Fighting Lady (1954) [a]

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [a]

Hit the Deck (1955) [a]

Forbidden Planet (1956) [a]

The Rack (1956) [a]

These Wilder Years (1956) [a]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) [a]

Advise and Consent (1962) [a]

Big Red (1962) [a]

I due colonnelli (1962) [a]

Anniversary (1963) [a]

Warning Shot (1967) [a]

A qualsiasi prezzo (1968) [a]

Funny Girl (1968) [a]

Rascal (1969) [a]

Skyjacked (1972) [a]

Harry in Your Pocket (1973) [a]

The Neptune Factor (1973) [a]

Two-Minute Warning (1976) [a]

Sextette (1978) [a]



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