Sign in Sign up

Acting

Walter Pidgeon

Career: Active from 1926 to 1989, with a break from 1976 to 1988, busiest in 1937 and 1940 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 78
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Executive Suite
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 60 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Walter Pidgeon Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.2, average 5.4
Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Scare
1.3, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.2, average 2.5

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Character-Driven 8
Classic Hollywood 4
Historical Romance 4
Class Conflict 4
Nostalgic 4
Social Commentary 4
Moral Dilemma 3
Historical Conflict 3
Political Intrigue 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Witty Dialogue 3
Family Saga 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

132

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

1 title

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

1 title

Fritz Lang, drawings for a film

as Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)

1970s

18 titles · average score 55

Two-Minute Warning

39

as The Pickpocket

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

You Lie So Deep, My Love

as Uncle Joe Padway

Live Again, Die Again

as Thomas Carmichael

That's Entertainment!

84

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Neptune Factor

37

as Dr. Samuel Andrews

Harry in Your Pocket

55

as Casey

The Snoop Sisters

76

TV show · as Keith Follett

The Screaming Woman

66

as Amos Larkin

Skyjacked

48

as Sen. Arne Lindner

The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Max van Condon

House on Greenapple Road

71

as Mayor Jack Parker

1960s

18 titles · average score 61

Funny Girl

84

as Florenz Ziegfeld

The Vatican Affair

as Herbert Cummings

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

56

as Lewis Gannet

Cinderella

71

as King

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Leo Roland

Daniel Boone

47

TV show · as Lord Dunsmore

Two Colonels

73

as Colonello Henderson

Burke's Law

68

TV show · as B.G. Perkins

Big Red

55

as James Haggin

Advise & Consent

79

as Senate Majority Leader

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

49

as Admiral Harriman Nelson

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Dr. Charles Priest

1950s

25 titles · average score 61

Forbidden Planet

81

as Dr. Edward Morbius

The Rack

61

as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.

These Wilder Years

61

as James Rayburn

The Last Time I Saw Paris

47

as James Ellswirth

Men of the Fighting Lady

53

as Cmdr. Dowling

Dream Wife

57

as Walter McBride

The Bad and the Beautiful

79

as Harry Pebbel

Million Dollar Mermaid

58

as Frederick Kellerman

Calling Bulldog Drummond

42

as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond

Soldiers Three

43

as Col. Brunswick

The Unknown Man

52

as Dwight Bradley Masen

The Miniver Story

56

as Clem Miniver

1940s

24 titles · average score 64

That Forsyte Woman

63

as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte

The Red Danube

66

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar

Command Decision

72

as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane

If Winter Comes

62

as Mark Sabre

Week-End at the Waldorf

63

as Chip Collyer

Mrs. Parkington

50

as Major Augustus Parkington

Madame Curie

74

as Pierre Curie

Mrs. Miniver

79

as Clem Miniver

How Green Was My Valley

83

as Mr. Gruffydd

Man Hunt

79

as Captain Alan Thorndike

Blossoms in the Dust

50

as Sam Gladney

Dark Command

83

as William 'Will' Cantrell

1930s

29 titles · average score 62

Nick Carter, Master Detective

61

as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers

Stronger Than Desire

60

as Tyler Flagg

Society Lawyer

58

as Christopher Durant

The Shopworn Angel

71

as Sam Bailey

Too Hot to Handle

60

as Bill Dennis

The Girl of the Golden West

61

as Sheriff Jack Rance

Girl Overboard

as Paul Stacey

She's Dangerous

as Dr. Scott Logan

My Dear Miss Aldrich

62

as Ken Morley

Big Brown Eyes

73

as Richard Morey

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

as Lord Varney

Going Wild

64

as 'Ace' Benton

1920s

16 titles

Her Private Life

as Ned Thayer

A Most Immoral Lady

as Tony Williams

Turn Back the Hours

as Philip Drake

Clothes Make the Woman

as Victor Trent

Melody of Love

as Jack Clark

Woman Wise

as United States Consul

The Gateway of the Moon

as Arthur Wyatt

The Girl from Rio

as Paul Sinclair

The Gorilla

as Stevens

The Heart of Salome

as Monte Carroll

Old Loves and New

as Clyde Lord Geradine

Mannequin

as Martin Innesbrook