Walter Pidgeon
Acting
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.
Born: September 22, 1897
Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Known For
Live Again, Die Again
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 has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Two Colonels
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
The Bad and the Beautiful
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 various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
How Green Was My Valley
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
Forbidden Planet
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Madame 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 concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Funny Girl
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 Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Filmography
as Self - (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)
as The Chairman
as The Pickpocket
as Grayson's Butler
as (archive footage)
as Judge Trenchard
as Charlie Parkins
as Uncle Joe Padway
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as John Pahlman
as Thomas Carmichael
as Keith Follett
as Casey
as Dr. Samuel Andrews
as Sen. Arne Lindner
as Dr. Amos Larkin
as Dr. Max van Condon
as Mayor Jack Parker
as Sterling North (voice)
as Florenz Ziegfeld
as Herbert Cummings
as Jason Merrill
as Orville Ames
as Lewis Gannet
as Leo Roland
as King
as Lord Dunsmore
as B.G. Perkins
as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
as Colonello Henderson
as Self
as Senate Majority Leader
as James Haggin
as Dr. Charles Priest
as Admiral Harriman Nelson
as John Baker
as Alonzo Smith
as General Augustus Perry
as Self
as Sherman Hatfield
as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
as Self
as Jess Clark
as Dave King
as James Rayburn
as Dr. Edward Morbius
as Narrator (voice)
as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
as J.J. Shubert
as James Ellswirth
as Cmdr. Dowling
as Frederick Y. Alderson
as Walter McBride
as Patrick J. McChesney
as Harry Pebbel
as Frederick Kellerman
as Haven D. Allridge
as Dwight Bradley Masen
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
as Col. Brunswick
as Clem Miniver
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Self - Panelist
as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
as William Sylvester Packett
as Self
as Mark Sabre
as Chris Matthews
as Jeffrey Evans
as Chip Collyer
as Major Augustus Parkington
as Self - Presenter
as (archive footage)
as Pierre Curie
as Walter Pidgeon
as Mr. Harry Witzel
as Clem Miniver
as Jeff Sherman
as Mr. Gruffydd
as Sam Gladney
as Captain Alan Thorndike
as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
as Nick Carter
as Nick Carter
as William 'Will' Cantrell
as John Arlen
as Tim Nolan
as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
as Tyler Flagg
as Steve Donegan
as Christopher Durant
as Richard Thurlow
as Bill Dennis
as Sam Bailey
as Sheriff Jack Rance
as Alan Wythe
as Mickey McGuire
as Ken Morley
as Hartley Madison
as Fraser James
as Paul Stacey
as Dr. Scott Logan
as David Roberts
as Richard Morey
as Florestan
as Lucy's Lover
as Al Howard
as Clay
as Paul de St. Cyr
as 'Ace' Benton
as Franz von Renner
as Arthur Marsden
as Lord Varney
as Colonel Vultow
as Premiere Emcee
as Tony Williams
as Ned Thayer
as Jack Clark
as Victor Trent
as Philip Drake
as United States Consul
as Arthur Wyatt
as Stevens
as Richard Marsden
as Paul Sinclair
as Monte Carroll
as Paul
as Bravo
as Clyde Lord Geradine
as Basil Owen
as Martin Innesbrook