Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 - 7 July 1980) was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. He made his film debut in 1926 in the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock. Moving to Hollywood, he was cast in numerous roles, often as a British butler. One of his most famous roles was that of Schultz in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Toward the end of his career, Gardiner made increasing guest appearances on the leading television sitcoms of the 1960s, including Fess Parker's ABC series, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the lead guest in the episode "Citizen Bellows". His last major role was alongside Phyllis Diller in her short-lived ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton (1966-67).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.336 |
| Birthday | 1903-02-27 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | William Reginald Gardiner, |
1940
The Great Dictator
8.32/3271
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Great Dictator
1939
The Flying Deuces
6.4/154
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the...
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The Flying Deuces
1942
Captains of the Clouds
6.5/25
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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Captains of the Clouds
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
6.8/72
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
1945
Christmas in Connecticut
7/145
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse...
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Christmas in Connecticut
1962
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
6.353/78
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns...
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
1938
Everybody Sing
4.7/7
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piec...
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Everybody Sing
1957
The Story of Mankind
4.476/21
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Story of Mankind
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1938
Marie Antoinette
6.22/25
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
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Marie Antoinette
1936
Born to Dance
6/23
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broad...
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Born to Dance
1954
Black Widow
6.3/45
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Black Widow
1965
Do Not Disturb
5.6/26
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with h...
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Do Not Disturb
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.8/18
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
1937
A Damsel in Distress
6.4/32
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. Af...
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A Damsel in Distress
1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.
5.5/20
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
My Life with Caroline
5.7/3
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
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My Life with Caroline
1946
Cluny Brown
7.2/81
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Cluny Brown
1948
That Lady in Ermine
5.833/15
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w...
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That Lady in Ermine
1965
Sergeant Deadhead
4/3
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the ast...
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Sergeant Deadhead
1941
Sundown
5.4/21
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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Sundown
1946
Do You Love Me
4.3/3
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes...
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Do You Love Me
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.9/7
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1950
Wabash Avenue
4.7/6
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it bac...
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Wabash Avenue
1948
That Wonderful Urge
6.2/8
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely cla...
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That Wonderful Urge
1948
Fury at Furnace Creek
6/12
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he...
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Fury at Furnace Creek
1956
The Birds and the Bees
6.8/4
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's...
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The Birds and the Bees
1940
Dulcy
5.8/4
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's f...
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Dulcy
1943
Claudia
6.5/4
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afra...
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Claudia
1938
The Girl Downstairs
4.5/8
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falli...
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The Girl Downstairs
1951
Elopement
5/1
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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Elopement
1961
Back Street
5.7/14
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on...
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Back Street
1958
Rock-a-Bye Baby
6.8/74
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not su...
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
1952
Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion
1955
Ain't Misbehavin'
5/1
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
1943
Immortal Sergeant
5.6/7
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Immortal Sergeant
1933
Leave It to Smith
0/0
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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Leave It to Smith
1945
Molly and Me
6.2/11
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
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Molly and Me
1933
Radio Parade
0/0
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and...
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Radio Parade
1955
Alice in Wonderland
0/0
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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Alice in Wonderland
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
7.127/288
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who cl...
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1945
The Dolly Sisters
5.5/8
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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The Dolly Sisters
1946
One More Tomorrow
5.5/4
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the owne...
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One More Tomorrow
1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
6/6
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometow...
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1951
Halls of Montezuma
5.743/34
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat...
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Halls of Montezuma
1931
Aroma of the South Seas
0/0
'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Aroma of the South Seas
1931
The Perfect Lady
0/0
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Perfect Lady
1932
Flat No. 9
0/0
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
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Flat No. 9
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
7/3
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
1942
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
6/1
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1938
Sweethearts
5.3/9
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Sweethearts
1939
The Night of Nights
0/0
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...
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The Night of Nights
1942
Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Breakdowns of 1942
1935
A Little Bit of Bluff
0/0
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
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A Little Bit of Bluff
1964
What a Way to Go!
6.949/79
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be...
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What a Way to Go!
1931
My Old China
0/0
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)
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My Old China
1931
Bull Rushes
0/0
'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Bull Rushes
1958
No Time at All
0/0
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people...
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