Walter Kingsford
Birthday: 1882-09-20
Place of Birth: Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Kingsford (born Walter Pearce, 20 September 1882 – 7 February 1958) was a British stage, film and television actor. Kingsford began his acting career on the London stage. He also had a long Broadway career, appearing in plays from the 1912 original American production of George Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play to 1944's Song of Norway. In the early 1920s, Kingford was active with the Henry Jewett Players. Kingsford moved to Hollywood, California, for a prolific film career in supporting parts. On screen, he specialised in portraying authority figures such as noblemen, heads of state, doctors, police inspectors and lawyers. He is best known for his recurring role as the snobbish hospital head Dr. P. Walter Carew in the popular Dr. Kildare (and Dr. Gillespie) film series. Kingsford had numerous television appearances in the 1950s. They included TV Reader's Digest, Command Performance and Science Fiction Theatre.
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Algiers
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Slattery's Hurricane
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The Invisible Ray
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The Velvet Touch
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Experiment Alcatraz
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Carefree
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The Devil and Miss Jones
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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The Young in Heart
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
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Captains Courageous
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Fingers at the Window
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Mr. Lucky
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
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Two Dollar Bettor
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Loose in London
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
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Merry Andrew
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Double or Nothing
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Confidence Girl
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
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Unholy Partners
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
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My Favorite Blonde
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
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A Yank at Oxford
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If I Were King
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The Music Goes 'Round
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
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Shanghai
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Flight for Freedom
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3 Men in White
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Professional Soldier
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Meet Nero Wolfe
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Hearts Divided
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The Witness Vanishes
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Stolen Holiday
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The White Cockatoo
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The Brigand
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The Pathfinder
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Walking My Baby Back Home
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Miracles for Sale
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Paradise for Three
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Kitty Foyle
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There's Always a Woman
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Speed
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
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Say It in French
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The Devil Is Driving
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
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Young Dr. Kildare
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The President Vanishes
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I'll Take Romance
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
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Frankie and Johnnie
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Calling Dr. Kildare
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Juarez
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Dancing Co-Ed
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
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Bomber's Moon
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Fly By Night
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Star Dust
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The Black Arrow
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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Hi Diddle Diddle
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A Dispatch from Reuters
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
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Lucky Partners
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Mr. Skeffington
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Don't You Believe It
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
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Around the World in 80 Days
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The Corsican Brothers
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Smashing the Spy Ring
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Maytime
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Trouble for Two
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It Could Happen to You
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
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Naughty Marietta
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Lord Jeff
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Adventure in Diamonds
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) s...
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My Forbidden Past
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune....
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The Life of Emile Zola
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments o...
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Mad Holiday
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder....
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn t...
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The League of Frightened Men
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past....
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The Melody Lingers on
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Anthony Adverse
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymou...
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The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
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