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).
Reginald Gardiner Biography / Wiki
| Name | Reginald Gardiner |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1903-02-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 77 |
| Deathday | 1980-07-07 |
Reginald Gardiner Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Aroma of the South Seas | The Man | 1931-03-31 | A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino…. |
| A Little Bit of Bluff | Hugh Rigby | 1935-05-02 | The boyfriend of an admiral’s daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald…. |
| Forever and a Day | Assistant Hotel Manager | 1943-01-21 | 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, … |
| Flat No. 9 | Peter Merridew | 1932-05-01 | A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson… |
| The Great Dictator | Commander Schultz | 1940-10-15 | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime…. |
| That Wonderful Urge | Count André de Guyon | 1948-11-20 | 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… |
| Claudia | Jerry Seymour | 1943-11-04 | 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… |
| Alice in Wonderland | White Knight | 1955-10-22 | A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas…. |
| Halls of Montezuma | Sgt. Randolph Johnson | 1951-01-04 | Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat… |
| The Perfect Lady | Lord Tony Carderay | 1931-11-01 | A comedy film directed by Frederick J. Jackson… |
| The Flying Deuces | Francois | 1939-11-03 | Ollie is in love with a woman. When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys… |
| Christmas in Connecticut | John Sloan | 1945-07-27 | Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country’s most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking… |
| A Yank in the R.A.F. | Roger Pillby | 1941-09-26 | An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty’s Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend…. |
| My Life with Caroline | Paul Martindale | 1941-08-01 | A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him…. |
| Do You Love Me | Herbert Benham | 1946-05-17 | 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 … |
| The Doctor Takes a Wife | John R. Pierce | 1940-04-25 | 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…. |
| Wabash Avenue | English Eddie | 1950-03-31 | 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… |
| Fury at Furnace Creek | Capt. Grover A. Walsh | 1948-04-30 | The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he… |
| The Birds and the Bees | Gerald | 1956-05-11 | 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… |
| Dulcy | Schuyler Van Dyke | 1940-10-04 | 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… |
| The Girl Downstairs | Willie | 1938-12-23 | 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… |
| Molly and Me | Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler | 1945-05-25 | A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs…. |
| Sweet Rosie O’Grady | Charles, Duke of Trippenham | 1943-10-01 | 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… |
| The Night of Nights | J. Neville Prime | 1939-12-01 | 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… |
| Do Not Disturb | Simmons | 1965-12-22 | 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… |
| The Horn Blows at Midnight | Composer / Archie Dexter | 1945-04-28 | 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… |
| A Damsel in Distress | Keggs | 1937-11-19 | 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… |
| Cluny Brown | Hilary Ames | 1946-05-01 | Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate…. |
| That Lady in Ermine | Alberto | 1948-08-24 | Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w… |
| Elopement | Roger Evans | 1951-11-23 | Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children’s wedding…. |
| Rock-a-Bye Baby | Harold Hermann | 1958-07-23 | An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will no… |
| Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Anatole Piermont Rogers | 1955-06-30 | Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her…. |
| Immortal Sergeant | Tom Benedict | 1943-04-29 | During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader…. |
| The Dolly Sisters | Tony, Duke of Breck | 1945-11-14 | Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs…. |
| Captains of the Clouds | Scrounger Harris (bush pilot) | 1942-02-12 | Inspired by Churchill’s Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF…. |
| Everybody Sing | Jerrold Hope | 1938-01-01 | When boisterous Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) encourages her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat, her scand… |
| Black Widow | Brian Mullen | 1954-10-28 | A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer…. |
| Sundown | Lieutenant Roddy Turner | 1941-10-31 | Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans…. |
| Back Street | Dalian | 1961-10-11 | Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on … |
| Leave It to Smith | Lord Redwood | 1933-09-13 | A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles…… |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Dancer at Ball (uncredited) | 1927-02-14 | 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… |
| One More Tomorrow | James ‘Jim’ Aloysius Fisk | 1946-05-24 | Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party–until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the owner… |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner | Beverly Carlton | 1942-01-01 | An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family…. |
| Androcles and the Lion | Lentulus | 1952-12-01 | 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 … |
| Radio Parade | 1933-10-01 | 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 … | |
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Reggie McHugh | 1962-06-15 | 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… |
| Sergeant Dead Head | Lt. Comm. Talbott | 1965-08-18 | 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… |
| Sweethearts | Norman Trumpett | 1938-12-30 | Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes…. |
| Marie Antoinette | Comte d’Artois | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
| Born to Dance | Policeman | 1936-11-27 | Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy’s pet do… |
| What a Way to Go! | House Painter | 1964-10-12 | 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 … |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | 1942-10-05 | Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, “The White House of Hollywood.”… | |
| The Story of Mankind | William Shakespeare | 1957-11-08 | The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil…. |
| Hollywood Goes to Town | 1938-07-07 | 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… | |
| Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-01-01 | This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers…. |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Himself | 1963-07-01 | A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood…. |
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