Walter Pidgeon
28 titles
Filmography
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Forbidden Planet
(1956)A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings.

If Winter Comes
(1947)On the rebound from a broken heart, a writer (Pidgeon) marries another woman (Lansbury), but secretly longs for his former love (Kerr).

The Red Danube
(1949)Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford star as lovers trapped on either side of the newly fallen Iron Curtain, a man and a woman stranded on opposite sides of The Red Danube. Post World War II Vienna. In a city that now lies across the river from Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, British Major John McPhimister (Lawford) works to repatriate war refugees – to reunite families but also to sometimes force displaced people back to their native countries against their will. Now, he falls in love with beautiful ballet dancer Maria Buhlen (Leigh) who is desperately trying to flee Eastern Europe. Bound by duty, honor, and love, will these two find a future together? The Red Danube also features Angela Lansbury as a proud military woman who stands her ground against sexist male colleagues.

Madame Curie
(1943)The famed female scientist fights to keep her marriage together while conducting early experiments with radioactivity.

Command Decision
(1948)Clark Gable stars as a senior officer who faces the horror of sending his men on suicide missions over Germany during the last days of World War II.

Mrs. Parkington
(1944)Story of a social-climbing woman who marries a wealthy-but-homespun man and forces her way into high society.

Mrs. Miniver
(1942)A British family struggles to cope with the changes in their lives caused by World War II. Vin Miniver falls in love with Carol, the daughter of the crotchety village matriarch. As romance grows, German bombs begin to decimate the countryside and a downed German aviator seeks refuge with the Minivers. Their home is bombed and the village church reduced to rubble, but Mrs. Miniver keeps her fami...

Two Colonels
(1963)During WWII, two enemy colonels—one Italian and the other English—develop a grudging friendship as their armies vie for control over a Greek village.
The Miniver Story
(1950)Julia Misbehaves
(1948)
Dark Command
(1940)A Civil War tale based on the exploits of the notorious outlaw William Quantrill. A courageous sheriff stands up to Quantrill and his band of guerrillas pillaging the countryside in Civil War-torn Kansas, and stops the cut-throat raids across both Union and Confederate lines.

The Rack
(1956)Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as a Korean War prisoner of war who returns home a hero only to face a court martial as a collaborator in this riveting drama based on true events. During the war, the North Koreans employed psychological torture to break Allied prisoners of war. For some reason, Americans cracked under the North Koreans' torture more often than soldiers from other countries. Now, Edward Hall, Jr. (Newman) returns home with the burden of his knowledge that his brother died a hero in the war, but he was one of the men who was broken... and after years of torture, he now faces a military tribunal.

The Bad and the Beautiful
(1952)Academy Award-winner Kirk Douglas ("Lust for Life," "Gunfight at O.K. Corral") stars in this drama about the life of an ambitious Hollywood producer, as seen through the eyes of a writer, a director, and an actress.

The Shopworn Angel
(1938)The chemistry that Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart would lift to exquisite heights in The Shop Around the Corner is on earlier display in this tender romance scripted by Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home). Sullavan portrays Daisy Heath, a Broadway songbird who knows too much about life. Texas doughboy Bill Pettigrew (Stewart) knows little, except that he'll soon be shipped overseas to the World War I trenches. And that he's been crazy in love with Daisy ever since they shared a taxi. Increasingly charmed by Bill's heartfelt devotion and hoping to give him something to look forward to while he's risking death over there, Daisy agrees to marry him. But there's something about her Bill doesn't know....

Week-End at the Waldorf
(1945)The lives of a stenographer, a movie star, a war reporter, and other guests and staff crisscross over three days at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Million Dollar Mermaid
(1952)Esther Williams stars in this dramatic true musical romance of turn-of-the century swimming champion Annette Kellerman, better known as the Million Dollar Mermaid. As a child in Australia, Kellerman learns to swim to overcome a potentially crippling physical handicap and develops into a champion. As a young woman, she travels with her father to London and dreams of a career as a dancer. But when her father falls on hard times, Kellerman resorts to her aquatic talents: swimming 30 miles of the Thames in a famous publicity stunt, then shocking Boston by appearing in a one-piece suit.

Flight Command
(1940)Alan Drake disobeys orders to abandon his aircraft and hit the silk. This doesn’t sit well with the tightly knit squad.

The Last Time I Saw Paris
(1954)An American journalist returns to Paris, a city that gave him true love and deep grief, in this rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited

The Girl of the Golden West
(1938)Golden hills, voices and melodies fill this fun-loving musical/western starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy as the bandit she loves.
These Wilder Years
(1956)James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck shine in their only screen pairing, a powerful story of loss and regret co-starring Walter Pidgeon. After 20 years, middle-aged steel magnate Steve Bradford (Cagney) has decided to return to his hometown to take care of some unfinished business. Determined to find the son he fathered while still in high school, he tangles with orphanage director Ann Dempster (Stanwyck), who refuses to give him the young man's name. Turning to the courts in a brazen attempt to force Dempster to reveal the information, Bradford gets more than he bargained for when she introduces him to Suzie (Betty Lou Keim), an expectant 16-year-old who helps him realize that the wishes and feelings of others may be more important than his own.