Walter Pidgeon — Actor (21)
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Forbidden Planet (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Forbidden Planet
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Fred M. Wilcox actor: Walter Pidgeon / Anne Francis …
other title: Il pianeta proibito / Kampen på dødskloden …
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.
1950s annefrancis horror leslienielsen monsterdon
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Quo Vadis (1951) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Quo Vadis
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Robert Taylor / Deborah Kerr …
other title: Quo vadis / Quo vadis?
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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How Green Was My Valley (1941) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
How Green Was My Valley
director: John Ford actor: Walter Pidgeon / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Com'era verde la mia valle / Grøn var min Barndoms Dal …
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Funny Girl (1968) [Movie] TMDB
Funny Girl
director: William Wyler actor: Barbra Streisand / Omar Sharif …
other title: Funny Girl - A Garota Genial / Una chica divertida (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.
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White Cargo (1942) [Movie] TMDB
White Cargo
director: Richard Thorpe actor: Hedy Lamarr / Walter Pidgeon …
other title: La sirena del Congo
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Cinderella (1965) [Movie] TMDB
Cinderella
director: Charles S. Dubin actor: Lesley Ann Warren / Stuart Damon …
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [Movie] TMDB Douban
The Last Time I Saw Paris
director: Richard Brooks actor: Elizabeth Taylor / Van Johnson …
other title: L'ultima volta che vidi Parigi / Sidst jeg så Paris …
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
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.
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Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) [Movie] Douban WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Million Dollar Mermaid
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Esther Williams / Victor Mature …
other title: La ninfa degli antipodi / A Rainha do Mar …
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie]
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
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.
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Advise & Consent (1962) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Advise & Consent
director: Otto Preminger actor: Henry Fonda / Charles Laughton …
other title: Tempesta su Washington / Storm over Washington …
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Two-Minute Warning (1976) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Two-Minute Warning
director: Larry Peerce actor: Charlton Heston / John Cassavetes …
other title: Panico nello stadio / 2 minutters frist …
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
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Skyjacked (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Skyjacked
director: John Guillermin actor: Charlton Heston / Yvette Mimieux …
other title: Il pirata dell'aria / Endstation Hölle …
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
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The Screaming Woman (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Screaming Woman
director: Jack Smight actor: Olivia de Havilland / Ed Nelson …
other title: L'enterrée vive / L'Enterrée vive
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
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Man Hunt (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Man Hunt
director: Fritz Lang actor: Walter Pidgeon / Joan Bennett …
other title: Duello mortale / Feras Humanas …
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
1940s fritzlang
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
director: Gary Nelson actor: Don Murray / Bert Convy …
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
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Murder on Flight 502 (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Murder on Flight 502
director: George McCowan actor: Ralph Bellamy / Farrah Fawcett-Majors …
other title: Mystère sur le vol 502 / Asesinato en el vuelo 502
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Sextette (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sextette
director: Ken Hughes actor: Mae West / Timothy Dalton …
other title: Seis maridos para Marlo
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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The Gorilla (1927) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Gorilla
director: Alfred Santell actor: Charles Murray / Fred Kelsey …
other title: Il Gorilla (film 1927)
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
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The Gorilla (1930) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Gorilla
director: Bryan Foy actor: Joe Frisco / Harry Gribbon …
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)