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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 famo... more

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).

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The Great Dictator
(1940)
Comedy, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Charlie Chaplin
Cast:
Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
8.4
93%
N/A
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
(1927)
Drama, Thriller
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 claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Arthur Chesney
7.3
96%
N/A
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Christmas in Connecticut
(1945)
Comedy, Romance
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 care of her children, and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality, she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Feli...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Peter Godfrey
Cast:
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
7.4
89%
N/A
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Comedy, Romance
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
William Keighley
Cast:
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante
7.6
80%
N/A
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What a Way to Go!
(1964)
Comedy, Romance
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 rich.
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Cast:
Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin
7.0
22%
N/A
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The Flying Deuces
(1939)
Comedy, War
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 join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.
Runtime:
69 min
Director:
A. Edward Sutherland
Cast:
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton
6.8
83%
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
(1962)
Comedy, Family
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 out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily ma...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Henry Koster
Cast:
James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson
6.9
80%
N/A
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Marie Antoinette
(1938)
Drama, History, Romance
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred...
Runtime:
149 min
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Cast:
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
7.6
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Cluny Brown
(1946)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast:
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
7.6
91%
N/A
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Halls of Montezuma
(1951)
Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the e...
Runtime:
113 min
6.7
83%
N/A
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Black Widow
(1954)
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Nunnally Johnson
Cast:
Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner
6.8
N/A
N/A
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A Damsel in Distress
(1937)
Comedy, Romance
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'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
George Stevens
Cast:
Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner
6.9
80%
N/A
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
(1958)
Comedy, Romance
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 suffer.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Frank Tashlin
Cast:
Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner
6.8
57%
N/A
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Born to Dance
(1936)
Comedy, Music, Romance
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 dog during a public relations campaign on his submarine, Lucy falls for him. Ted is ordered to meet Lucy for a date at a night club, who later sees their picture in the newspaper and no lon...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Cast:
Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
(1945)
Comedy, Fantasy, Music
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 exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Cast:
Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner
6.8
89%
N/A
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Captains of the Clouds
(1942)
Action, Drama, War
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias
6.5
N/A
N/A
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
(1941)
Action, Romance, War
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Henry King
Cast:
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Do Not Disturb
(1965)
Comedy, Romance
"Doris Day continues her reign as America's sweetheart" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "bright, colorful comedy of marital misunderstanding" (The Film Daily). Co-starring Rod Taylor (The Glass Bottom Boat) and featuring whip-smart dialogue, a hilarious plot, sumptuous locales and costumes and the song "Au Revoir Is Goodbye With a Smil...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Ralph Levy
Cast:
Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Back Street
(1961)
Drama
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
David Miller
Cast:
Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
(1940)
Comedy
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.
Runtime:
88 min
7.0
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N/A
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Forever and a Day
(1943)
Drama, History
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, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair
Cast:
George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon, Reginald Gardiner
7.3
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N/A
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That Wonderful Urge
(1948)
Romance
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 claiming they're married.
Runtime:
82 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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That Lady in Ermine
(1948)
Comedy, Romance
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invad...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
Cast:
Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel, Reginald Gardiner
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Molly and Me
(1945)
Comedy
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Runtime:
77 min
Cast:
Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Sundown
(1941)
Drama, War
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Runtime:
90 min
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Everybody Sing
(1938)
Comedy, Music, Romance
The story is about a bunch of eccentrics in a family that are intent on putting on a show and bursting into song numbers at the drop of a hat.
Runtime:
91 min
6.4
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N/A
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Claudia
(1943)
Comedy, Drama
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 afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she trie...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Edmund Goulding
Cast:
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Ina Claire, Reginald Gardiner, Olga Baclanova
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Story of Mankind
(1957)
Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Irwin Allen
Cast:
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
4.9
N/A
N/A
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Fury at Furnace Creek
(1948)
Western
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast:
Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner, Albert Dekker
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Do You Love Me
(1946)
Music
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 a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the m...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Gregory Ratoff
Cast:
Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Harry James, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Gaines
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Wabash Avenue
(1950)
Music
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 back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his ...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Henry Koster
Cast:
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, Reginald Gardiner, James Barton
6.2
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N/A
My Life with Caroline
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My Life with Caroline
(1941)
Comedy
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Runtime:
81 min
5.8
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N/A
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Dulcy
(1940)
Comedy
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 future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
S. Sylvan Simon
Cast:
Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner, Billie Burke
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Elopement
(1951)
Comedy
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Henry Koster
Cast:
Clifton Webb, Charles Bickford, Anne Francis, William Lundigan, Reginald Gardiner
6.4
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N/A
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The Birds and the Bees
(1956)
Comedy
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 just fleeced.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Norman Taurog
Cast:
George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark
5.5
N/A
N/A
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The Girl Downstairs
(1938)
Comedy, Romance
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 falling in love with him.
Runtime:
77 min
6.2
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N/A
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Sergeant Dead Head
(1965)
Comedy
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 astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Norman Taurog
Cast:
Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon
4.7
N/A
N/A
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Alice in Wonderland
(1955)
Family, Fantasy
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
George Schaefer
Cast:
Tom Bosley, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner
5.9
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Radio Parade
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Radio Parade
(1933)
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 Roy Fox.
Director:
Archie de Bear, Richard Beville
Cast:
Doris Arnold, Elsie Carlisle, Charles Clapham, Mabel Constanduros, Jeanne De Casalis
6.8
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