Walter Pidgeon

Born: 1897-09-22

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.


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Quo Vadis

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1951-11-08

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage...

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How Green Was My Valley

as Mr. Gruffydd
Released: 1941-10-28

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the...

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Forbidden Planet

as Dr. Edward Morbius
Released: 1956-03-23

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a...

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Funny Girl

as Florenz Ziegfeld
Released: 1968-09-19

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New...

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The Bad and the Beautiful

as Harry Pebbel
Released: 1952-12-25

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood...

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Cinderella

as King
Released: 1965-02-22

After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided...

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Mrs. Miniver

as Clem Miniver
Released: 1942-07-03

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Admiral Harriman Nelson
Released: 1961-07-12

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

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Two-Minute Warning

as The Pickpocket
Released: 1976-11-12

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a...

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The Neptune Factor

as Dr. Samuel Andrews
Released: 1973-08-03

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find...

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Advise & Consent

as Senate Majority Leader
Released: 1962-06-06

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert...

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Man Hunt

as Captain Alan Thorndike
Released: 1941-06-13

Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria...

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Skyjacked

as Sen. Arne Lindner
Released: 1972-05-24

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

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That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1974-06-21

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50...

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The Last Time I Saw Paris

as James Ellswirth
Released: 1954-11-18

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen...

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That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)
Released: 1976-05-16

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time...

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Blossoms in the Dust

as Sam Gladney
Released: 1941-08-15

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when...

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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

as Grayson's Butler
Released: 1976-07-26

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a...

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Warning Shot

as Orville Ames
Released: 1967-01-18

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

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Dream Wife

as Walter McBride
Released: 1953-06-19

Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a...

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Executive Suite

as Frederick Y. Alderson
Released: 1954-04-30

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie...

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Two Colonels

as Colonello Henderson
Released: 1963-01-05

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging...

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The Red Danube

as Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
Released: 1949-10-14

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

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Dark Command

as William 'Will' Cantrell
Released: 1940-04-15

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the...

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Deep in My Heart

as J.J. Shubert
Released: 1954-12-09

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

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Saratoga

as Hartley Madison
Released: 1937-07-23

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

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Madame Curie

as Pierre Curie
Released: 1943-12-16

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...

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Million Dollar Mermaid

as Frederick Kellerman
Released: 1952-12-04

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece...

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The Shortest Day

as Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
Released: 1963-02-14

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an...

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Rockabye

as Al Howard
Released: 1932-11-25

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

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Mrs. Parkington

as Major Augustus Parkington
Released: 1944-10-12

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid...

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Sextette

as The Chairman
Released: 1978-03-03

On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is sought...

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Rascal

as Sterling North (voice)
Released: 1969-06-11

A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely...

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The Shopworn Angel

as Sam Bailey
Released: 1938-07-15

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training....

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Society Lawyer

as Christopher Durant
Released: 1939-03-21

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is...

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Big Red

as James Haggin
Released: 1962-06-06

Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile...

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Men of the Fighting Lady

as Cmdr. Dowling
Released: 1954-05-07

A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way...

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Harry in Your Pocket

as Casey
Released: 1973-09-23

A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets.

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The Rack

as Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
Released: 1956-11-02

Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War....

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Command Decision

as Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
Released: 1948-12-23

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories...

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White Cargo

as Mr. Harry Witzel
Released: 1942-12-12

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his...

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The Glass Slipper

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1955-03-24

Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.

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Phantom Raiders

as Nick Carter
Released: 1940-06-07

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers...

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Sweet Kitty Bellairs

as Lord Varney
Released: 1930-09-05

Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts...

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Flight Command

as Squadron Commander Billy Gary
Released: 1940-12-27

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school...

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Julia Misbehaves

as William Sylvester Packett
Released: 1948-08-08

Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many...

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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Judge Trenchard
Released: 1976-02-26

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed...

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Journal of a Crime

as Florestan
Released: 1934-03-10

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

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Kiss Me Again

as Paul de St. Cyr
Released: 1931-01-07

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants...

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Murder on Flight 502

as Charlie Parkins
Released: 1975-11-21

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the...

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-07-27

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling...

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Sky Murder

as Nick Carter
Released: 1940-09-27

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of...

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The Secret Heart

as Chris Matthews
Released: 1946-12-25

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's...

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The Youngest Profession

as Walter Pidgeon
Released: 1943-02-26

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping...

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Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
Released: 1939-12-13

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new...

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She's Dangerous

as Dr. Scott Logan
Released: 1937-01-24

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring...

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The Miniver Story

as Clem Miniver
Released: 1950-10-26

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in...

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Show Girl in Hollywood

as Premiere Emcee
Released: 1930-04-20

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy...

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Design for Scandal

as Jeff Sherman
Released: 1941-12-01

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry...

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These Wilder Years

as James Rayburn
Released: 1956-08-17

A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

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Live Again, Die Again

as Thomas Carmichael
Released: 1974-02-16

After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an...

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The Sellout

as Haven D. Allridge
Released: 1952-05-30

A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.

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6,000 Enemies

as Steve Donegan
Released: 1939-06-09

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery...

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House on Greenapple Road

as Mayor Jack Parker
Released: 1970-01-11

A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the...

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It's a Date

as John Arlen
Released: 1940-03-22

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a...

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The Mask of Sheba

as Dr. Max van Condon
Released: 1970-03-09

Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt...

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Marriage License?

as Paul
Released: 1926-09-05

When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his...

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Week-End at the Waldorf

as Chip Collyer
Released: 1945-10-04

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets...

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The Girl of the Golden West

as Sheriff Jack Rance
Released: 1938-03-18

A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

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My Dear Miss Aldrich

as Ken Morley
Released: 1937-09-17

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

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Big Brown Eyes

as Richard Morey
Released: 1936-04-03

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1991-10-28

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie...

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Stronger Than Desire

as Tyler Flagg
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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Scandal at Scourie

as Patrick J. McChesney
Released: 1953-05-17

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to...

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If Winter Comes

as Mark Sabre
Released: 1947-12-31

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark,...

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You Lie So Deep, My Love

as Uncle Joe Padway
Released: 1975-02-25

A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to...

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Bride of the Regiment

as Colonel Vultow
Released: 1930-05-21

As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess...

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Too Hot to Handle

as Bill Dennis
Released: 1938-09-16

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter,...

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

as Lewis Gannet
Released: 1967-01-07

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling...

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The Unknown Man

as Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen
Released: 1951-11-09

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

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Fatal Lady

as David Roberts
Released: 1936-05-15

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the...

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The Gorilla

as Stevens
Released: 1927-11-13

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

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That Forsyte Woman

as le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
Released: 1949-11-03

Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep...

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Turn Back the Hours

as Philip Drake
Released: 1928-03-01

Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and...

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The House Across the Bay

as Tim Nolan
Released: 1940-03-01

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion...

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Hit the Deck

as Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
Released: 1955-02-24

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

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Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Released: 1951-07-02

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

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As Good as Married

as Fraser James
Released: 1937-05-09

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for...

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Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)
Released: 1944-01-01

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits,...

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The Screaming Woman

as Dr. Amos Larkin
Released: 1972-01-29

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking...

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Listen, Darling

as Richard Thurlow
Released: 1938-10-21

To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know...

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Man-Proof

as Alan Wythe
Released: 1938-01-07

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even...

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The Hot Heiress

as Clay
Released: 1931-03-28

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much...

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Meet Me in St. Louis

as Alonzo Smith
Released: 1959-04-26

This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith...

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The Gateway of the Moon

as Arthur Wyatt
Released: 1928-01-01

John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter...

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The Outsider

as Basil Owen
Released: 1926-01-17

1926 film starring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, and Walter Pidgeon.

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The Girl on the Late, Late Show

as John Pahlman
Released: 1974-04-01

A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career...

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The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Lucy's Lover
Released: 1933-05-04

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney...

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The 13th Juror

as Richard Marsden
Released: 1927-11-13

A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter...

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Soldiers Three

as Col. Brunswick
Released: 1951-04-01

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

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Going Wild

as 'Ace' Benton
Released: 1930-12-21

Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace...

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Holiday in Mexico

as Jeffrey Evans
Released: 1946-08-15

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico...

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A Most Immoral Lady

as Tony Williams
Released: 1929-09-22

Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer)...

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Her Private Life

as Ned Thayer
Released: 1929-08-25

A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young...

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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

as Self
Released: 1930-08-01

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a...

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The Gorilla

as Arthur Marsden
Released: 1930-11-02

A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by...

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The Vatican Affair

as Herbert Cummings
Released: 1968-09-10

A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

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Clothes Make the Woman

as Victor Trent
Released: 1928-06-04

A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally...

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

as Self
Released: 1940-10-24

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes...

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Viennese Nights

as Franz von Renner
Released: 1930-11-25

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner....

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Old Loves and New

as Clyde Lord Geradine
Released: 1926-04-11

Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde...

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Miss Nobody

as Bravo
Released: 1926-06-27

The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with...

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Girl Overboard

as Paul Stacey
Released: 1937-02-01

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

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The Heart of Salome

as Monte Carroll
Released: 1927-05-08

1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.

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Woman Wise

as United States Consul
Released: 1928-01-08

Woman Wise is a 1928 American silent comedy drama film directed by Albert Ray and starring...

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A Girl with Ideas

as Mickey McGuire
Released: 1937-11-01

A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

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Melody of Love

as Jack Clark
Released: 1928-10-10

Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from...

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Mannequin

as Martin Innesbrook
Released: 1926-01-11

Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick,...

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Perry Mason

as Sherman Hatfield
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Daniel Boone

as Lord Dunsmore
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Burke's Law

as B.G. Perkins
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Jess Clark
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Dave King
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Charles Priest
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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The F.B.I.

as Leo Roland
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Rawhide

as General Augustus Perry
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

as Self
First aired: 1956-10-05

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Checkmate

as John Baker
First aired: 1960-09-17

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot,...

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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Breaking Point

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-16

Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April...

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Gibbsville

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-11-11

Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired...

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The Snoop Sisters

as Keith Follett
First aired: 1973-12-19

Two elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.

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