The Best Walter Pidgeon Movies

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List of the best Walter Pidgeon movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Walter Pidgeon's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Walter Pidgeon movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Walter Pidgeon movies will be at the top of the list. Walter Pidgeon has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Walter Pidgeon movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Walter Pidgeon films to end the squabble once and for all.

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Walter Pidgeon worked with many famous directors, including big names like Fritz Lang and John Ford.

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  • Mrs. Miniver
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    Mrs. Miniver

    Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Dame May Whitty
    45 votes
    • Released: 1942
    • Directed by: William Wyler
    A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot, the death of the daughter-in-law in an air raid, and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force.

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  • Forbidden Planet
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    Forbidden Planet

    Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
    35 votes
    • Released: 1956
    • Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox
    In this sci-fi classic, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier. When Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew arrive, they discover only two people: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), who was born on the remote planet. Soon, Adams begins to uncover the mystery of what happened on Altair IV, and why Morbius and Altaira are the sole survivors.

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  • How Green Was My Valley
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    How Green Was My Valley

    Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall
    33 votes
    • Released: 1941
    • Directed by: John Ford
    Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall), the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father (Donald Crisp) doesn't want to rock the boat. Meanwhile, Huw's eldest sister, Angharad (Maureen O'Hara), pines for the new village preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon).

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  • The Last Time I Saw Paris
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    The Last Time I Saw Paris

    Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
    19 votes
    • Released: 1954
    • Directed by: Richard Brooks
    Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed). 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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  • Advise & Consent
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    Advise & Consent

    Frank Sinatra, Betty White, Henry Fonda
    23 votes
    • Released: 1962
    • Directed by: Otto Preminger
    Advise & Consent is a 1962 American motion picture based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Allen Drury, published in 1959. The movie was adapted for the screen by Wendell Mayes and was directed by Otto Preminger. The ensemble cast features Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Betty White and others. The title derives from the United States Constitution's Article II, Sec. 2, cl. 2, which provides that the President of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States". The film, set in Washington, D.C., follows the consequences of a Presidential nomination for Secretary of State of a man with a hidden past who commits perjury in the course of confirmation proceedings.
  • Command Decision
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    Command Decision

    Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
    18 votes
    • Released: 1948
    • Directed by: Sam Wood
    Command Decision is a 1948 war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson and Brian Donlevy and directed by Sam Wood, based on a stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George Froeschel and William R. Laidlaw. Haines' play ran on Broadway for almost a year beginning in October 1947. Although portraying the strategic bombing of Nazi Germany in World War II, the film has virtually no action scenes, taking place almost entirely within the confines of the headquarters of its protagonist. Depicting the political infighting of conducting a major war effort, the film's major theme is the emotional toll on commanders from ordering missions that result in high casualties, the effects of sustained combat on all concerned, and the nature of accountability for its consequences.

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