Walter Kingsford
- Birthday
- Sep 20, 1881
Bio: One of the busiest members of Hollywood's British colony, actor Walter Kingsford inaugurated his stage career in London. Seldom a leading man (he wasn't tall enough), the august Kingsford provided support for such theatrical giants as John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Fay Bainter. His first American film was 1934's The Pursuit of Happiness, a Revolutionary-era… More Bio: One of the busiest members of Hollywood's British colony, actor Walter Kingsford inaugurated his stage career in London. Seldom a leading man (he wasn't tall enough), the august Kingsford provided support for such theatrical giants as John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Fay Bainter. His first American film was 1934's The Pursuit of Happiness, a Revolutionary-era comedy in which Kingsford had appeared on Broadway. Most of the actor's film characters were unsympathetic; he had the air of a disgraced aristocrat who'd been caught misappropriating trust funds or selling government secrets. Often appearing in brief, uncredited roles, Kingsford enjoyed good billing and steady work as Dr. Walter Carew, the snobbish, ultra-conservative head of Blair General Hospital in MGM's Dr. Kildare series. As Hollywood began turning out fewer and fewer films in the '50s, Walter Kingsford secured steady work in television: In the pilot film of Amos 'n' Andy, Kingsford has the first line in the first scene as a rare-coin assessor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mr. Skeffington
Fly By Night
Around The World In 80 Days
Kim
Mr. Lucky
Filmography
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Fly by Night (1993)
- Heydt
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Merry Andrew (1958)
- Mr. Fairchild
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Actor
- 73%
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Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
- Professor
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The Desert Fox (1951)
- Admiral Friedrich Ruge
- 71%
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