Known for:	Forbidden Planet, How Green Was My Valley, Mrs. Miniver
Birth name:	Walter Davis Pigeon
Birthday:	23 September 1897, East St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. First wife Edna died in 1926 giving birth to their daughter, also named Edna. His widowed mother Hannah came out to California to help care for his child. She lived there for the next 38 years, dying at age 94. Featured baritone in the Broadway production "The Puzzles of 1925." President of Screen Actors Guild (SAG). [1952-1957] Daughter, Edna Pidgeon Atkins, born in 1924, once worked at the Animation Department of MGM before marrying in 1947. She gave Walter 2 granddaughters, Pat and Pam. Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Take Me Along" -- a award that was won by his co-star Jackie Gleason . Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 640-642. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. He ran off to join his brother, Don, in the Canadian Army but his age (16) was detected and he was sent back home. He eventually enlisted with the 65th Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery but was injured during training when he was crushed by two guns carriages at Camp Petawawa and caught pneumonia. As a result he spent 17 months recovering at a hospital in Toronto, having never been sent to France. Initially performed in early talking musicals for Warner Bros. Was the last of the four stars (including Bette Davis, Michael Rennie and Hugh O'Brian) who played a "substitute attorney" on Perry Mason in 1963 when the series' titular star, Raymond Burr suffered a heart attack. The pressures of doing that guest role convinced him that starring in a TV series was not to his liking.

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