Walter Pidgeon Movies

pidgeon 111111Want to know the best Walter Pidgeon movies?  How about the worst Walter Pidgeon movies?  Curious about Walter Pidgeon box office grosses or which Walter Pidgeon movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Walter Pidgeon movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984)  was a Canadian American Oscar®-nominated actor.  His movie career spanned an incredible 52 years. His IMDb page shows 138 acting credits from 1926-1978. This page ranks 76 Walter Pidgeon movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, documentaries, shorts and his silent films were not included in the rankings.

Drivel part of the page:  This page comes from a subtle hint from Marcel.  Marcel recently commented on our Greer Garson page. He asked the question….”Why is Walter Pidgeon’s name not blue in the Co-Star column?”   Well the answer to that question…and an answer he knew….was we did not have a Walter Pidgeon page…..well we do now.  Thankfully, Pidgeon, spent many years working at MGM….so we were able to find lots of great box office information on his movies.

Walter Pidgeon in 1956's Forbidden Planet...maybe having a picture of movie will ease Steve's pain when he looks at rankings.
Walter Pidgeon in 1956’s Forbidden Planet…maybe having a picture of this movie will ease Steve’s pain when he looks at the overall rankings.

Walter Pidgeon Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Walter Pidgeon movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Walter Pidgeon movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Walter Pidgeon movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Walter Pidgeon movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Walter Pidgeon movie received.
  • Sort Walter Pidgeon movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR)Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • *** If worldwide box office is the same as domestic box office then it means we could not find the worldwide box office gross

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Walter Pidgeon Table

  1. Twenty-six Walter Pidgeon movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 34.21% of his movies listed. Mrs. Miniver (1942) was his biggest box office hit.
  2. An average Walter Pidgeon movie grosses $94.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. That translates to a career adjusted box office of $7.15 billion.
  4. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  40 Walter Pidgeon movies are rated as good movies…or 52.63% of his movies.  The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is his highest rated movie while Sextette (1978) is his lowest rated movie.
  5. Fifteen Walter Pidgeon movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 19.73% of his movies.
  6. Five Walter Pidgeon movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 6.57% of his movies.
  7. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 32 Walter Pidgeon movies scored higher that average….or 42.10% of his movies.  Mrs. Miniver (1942) got the the highest UMR Score while Sextette (1978) got the lowest UMR Score.
Walter Pidgeon in 1961's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Walter Pidgeon in 1961’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Possibly Interesting Facts About Walter Pidgeon

1. Walter Davis Pidgeon was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1897.

2. Fred Astaire heard Walter Pidgeon singing at a party while appearing with an amateur company in Boston and got him an agent.  Pidgeon would first gain fame for his singing voice in some of the first sound musicals ever made.

3. Greer Garson played the wife of Walter Pidgeon a total of eight times; in 1941’s Blossoms in the Dust,1942’s Mrs. Miniver,1943’s Madame Curie, 1944’s Mrs. Parkington, 1948’s Julia Misbehaves , 1950’s The Miniver Story, 1949’s That Forsyte Woman and 1953’s  Scandal at Scourie.  They also both appeared in 1943’s The Youngest Profession.

4.  The Greer Garson/Walter Pidgeon duo was one of the most successful screen teams ever.  Their 9 movies earned $1.47 BILLION when looking at adjusted North America grosses.

5.  Walter Pidgeon was nominated for two Best Actor Oscars®:  1942’s Mrs. Miniver and 1943’s Madame Curie.

6. Walter Pidgen and Ryan Gosling are the only two Canadians to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar®. Pidgeon held the distinction alone for 64 years.

7. Walter Pidgeon starred in back to back Best Picture Oscar® winners. 1941’s How Green Was My Valley and 1942’s Mrs. Miniver.

8. Walter Pidgeon was married two times and had one child.  His first wife Edna died in 1926 while giving birth to their daughter, Edna.  His second wife, Ruth, was his secretary before they got married.  They were married from 1931 till his death in 1984.

9. Walter Pidgeon had a notoriously poor memory for names, referring to anyone whose name he could not remember as “Joe.” This became such a habit that, for his birthday one year, the cast and crew of the picture he was working on bought him a present: A director’s chair enscribed “Joe Pidgeon.”

10. Check out Walter Pidgeon ‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Collateral Damage Section:  While researching this page we discovered better box office information on the following movies: (1) Julia Misbehaves (1948) box office moved up….Elizabeth Taylor page updated.  (2) Executive Suite (1954) box office moved down….William Holden & Shelley Winters pages updated. (3) The Secret Heart (1946) box office moved down….Claudette Colbert & Lionel Barrymore pages updated. (4) That Forsyte Woman (1949) box office moved down….Errol Flynn page updated. (5) Funny Girl (1968) box office moved down….Barbra Streisand page updated.
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73 thoughts on “Walter Pidgeon Movies”

    1. Hey WoC…thanks for your support…with your Pidgeon visit…that gave us 10,665 views today…with 458 pages getting at least one visit. We are getting there….thanks for all of your help.

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  2. I’m afraid we aren’t very active in the Walter Pidgeon group you posted this in. I believe it’s because there is another group called Greer Garson Appreciation Group and we are very active and talk about Walter all the time. Love to have you share his link there.

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    1. Hey Judy……Cool we did a Greer Garson page as well. Actually it was her page that led to this Walter Pidgeon page….as some of our readers were like…..where is Walter’s page….lol. Thanks for the headsup.

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  3. Well, now that Steve Lensman has shown up I will find the youtube video he made on Forbidden Planet and then comment on it here.

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    1. You can’t comment on my Forbidden Planet video Flora, sorry. “But why Steve, why?” pleads Flora. Because I haven’t done one, yet. “oh” Flora replies. I have written about the movie at hubpages and I think you may have commented on it back then, I can’t remember. Did you know it was loosely based on a Shakespeare play? Flora gasps. Yep it’s true Bill Shakespeare was writing about robots and spaceships hundreds of years ago. Flora shakes her head.

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  4. Hey Flora, love your comments on the site. I think the point is he really did love her but obviously he didn’t love her enough, because although she married into money, she was miserable and he knew that.
    And back to my point about clergy, he wasn’t really that poor was he? The film was set in the 1880’s, the church he ministered too had quite a congregation, enough to keep a full time minister.
    I’m just thinking, I wonder what John Ford would think about people having a debate about his film so many years after it was made. Probably delighted!
    Anyway nice talking to you, Chris.

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    1. Hey Chris.
      1. Flora did give a good breakdown of why they did not get married.
      2. Gotta think Ford would be very happy that 75 years later…..his movies would still be generating interest.
      3. Good point that Father Walter would have had enough money to live comfortable with Maureen.
      Thanks for the return visit.

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    2. Thanks, Chris!

      I love being on this site.

      It is great to meet people from all over the world without having to be on Facebook

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    1. Thanks Bern1960….that bumps Steve off the podium and gives you a bronze medal…..thanks for taking the time to do the tally count.

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