Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon ( born September 23, 1897 in Saint John, New Brunswick; † September 25, 1984 in Santa Monica, California ) was a Canadian actor.

Career

Walter Pidgeon studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was trained as a classical baritone singer. During the 1920s, he first appeared in a series of silent films. After the introduction of sound film he starred in film musicals. After him MGM 1937, under contract, he got supporting roles in films such as Saratoga ( Saratoga (1937 ) ) on the side of Jean Harlow and Clark Gable and in the Golden West ( The Girl of the Golden West, 1938) alongside Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. 1941 MGM loaned him at 20th Century Fox for the lead role in Green Was My Valley ( How Green Was My Valley) from. It was his first great success.

He then made ​​several films with his colleague Greer Garson, with whom he formed one of the most popular screen couples of American cinema of the 1940s. Her total of eight films together include, inter alia, Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver and Madame Curie. For the latter two, he was nominated for an Oscar each for Best Actor. From 1947 he was also frequently stood beside Deborah Kerr front of the camera. Kerr, which was built by MGM as a replacement for the older Greer Garson and Pidgeon played together, inter alia, in If Winter Comes (1947 ) and You and no other (Dream Wife, 1953). From the mid- 1950s, Walter Pidgeon played also reinforced at the theater and appeared in several television films.

In 1974 he was honored by the Screen Actors Guild Association for his life's work. One of his last roles he had in 1976 as a judge in the TV movie The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby (The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case). In the late 1970s he retired completely back out of the film business.

Walter Pidgeon died in 1984 in Santa Monica after a series of strokes. According to his wish, his body UCLA Medical School was handed over for medical research.

Walter Pidgeon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( 6414 Hollywood Boulevard ).

Private life

Walter Pidgeon was married twice. His first wife Edna Pickles, with whom he had been married since 1919, died in 1921 at the birth of their daughter, who was then baptized into the name of her mother Edna. Through them he later got two granddaughters named Pam and Pat

1931 Pidgeon married his secretary, Ruth Walker, with whom he remained happily married until his death.

Filmography (selection)

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