

Cast & creator
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Perry Mason, What's My Line?
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).
Also known as: William Reginald Gardiner
60
film credits
30
television credits
90
1927–1990 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 90 of 90 credits

Self
1962
Albert Charity
1957
Self
1950

Lord Clive Montdrako
1964
Bernie Park
1966
Lord Faversham
1963
Gaylord Martindale
1963
Self
1957
Piggott
1963
Pepperill Twill
1963
Putzi Voltran
1963
Self
1948
Sir Geoffrey
1965
Mr. Maudlin
1958
Mr. Lynn Belvedere
1955
Butler
1966
Chester Hobart
1959
Prince Fredrick
1964
Major Cook-Finch
1955
Waldo Francis Turner
1955
Mr. Montague
1961
Mr. Gilbert
1961
Felix Allardyce
1956
Uncle Andrew
1966
Commander Schultz
1940
Ernest Farrington
1958Self
1956
Ned Pruitt
1966
White Knight
1951Self
1949
Painter
1964
Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
1927
Harold Hermann
1958
Comte d'Artois
1938
Assistant Hotel Manager
1943
Brian Mullen
1954
Reggie McHugh
1962
Beverly Carlton
1941
Simmons
1965
Dalian
1961
William Shakespeare
1957
Lentulus
1952
Sgt. Randolph Johnson
1951
Composer / Archie Dexter
1945
John Pierce
1940
Francois
1939
Self
1938
Scrounger Harris
1942
Keggs
1937
Roger Pillby
1941
Alberto
1948
Felix Allardyce
1958
John Sloan
1945
Will Hough
1947
Self
1942
Count André de Guyon
1948
Gerald
1956Self (archive footage)
1990
Hilary Ames
1946
Capt. Grover A. Walsh
1948
Herbert Benham
1946
Lieutenant Roddy Turner
1941

Policeman
1936
Paul Martindale
1941

Norman Trumpett
1938
Lt. Comm. Talbott
1965
Charles, Duke of Trippenham
1943
Tom Benedict
1943
Anatole Piermont Rogers
1955
Willie
1938The Man
1931
J. Neville Prime
1939
English Eddie
1950
White Knight
1955
James 'Jim' Aloysius Fisk
1946
Tony
1945
Lord Tony Carderay
1931
Roger Evans
1951
Jerrold Hope
1938
Schuyler Van Dyke
1940Hugh Rigby
1935
Jerry Seymour
1943
Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler
1945Lord Redwood
1933Peter Merridew
1932