Helen Gilmore
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 4, 1862
- Died
- November 16, 1936 (aged 74)
- Birthplace
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
Helen Gilmore (born Antoinette A. Field, c. 1872 – April 1936) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Louisville, Kentucky. She appeared in over 140 films between 1913 and 1932. In approximately 1872, Gilmore was born to Richard Field and Mary Cilia Daniels. In 1894, she toured with comic actor Stuart Robson's company, even substituting, on at least one occasion, for Mrs. Robson—the temporarily unavailable May Waldron—in the role of Adriana in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. It was during that tour that Gilmore met and married fellow cast member (and fellow Kentuckian), Joseph B. Zahner, hurriedly tying the knot at New York's City Hall on Friday, July 13. Scarcely five years later, Zahner, then 33, suffered a fatal heart attack. Between 1910 and 1913, Gilmore appeared on Broadway in 4 musical revues: Deems Taylor's The Echo, Manuel Klein's Around the World and Under Many Flags (both at the New York Hippodrome), and Oscar Straus's My Little Friend. Shortly thereafter, she made her screen debut in A Female Fagin. As Mrs. Hobbs in A Petticoat Pilot (1918), Gilmore was commended for her careful character study. The Paramount Pictures film was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and was based on the novel by Evelyn Lincoln. She played the head nurse in Too Much Business (1922). This was a comedy which originated with a Saturday Evening Post story by Earl Derr Biggers. In it Gilmore was cast with Elsa Lorimer and Mack Fenton. Her final motion picture credit is for the role of a motorist in the Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars (1928).
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Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shivering Shakespeare
Movie · as Woman in audience (uncredited)
Sensation Seekers
Movie · as Mrs. Todd
Say It with Babies
Movie
What's the World Coming To?
Movie · as A Neighbor
Madame Mystery
Movie
Bromo and Juliet
Movie · as Bit Role (uncredited)
Long Fliv the King
Movie · as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Movie
The Haunted Honeymoon
Movie
Sherlock Sleuth
Movie · as Haughty Guest's Wife
Moonlight and Noses
Movie
Chasing the Chaser
Movie · as The neighbor
His Wooden Wedding
Movie · as (uncredited)
Big Red Riding Hood
Movie · as Red Riding Hood
Should Sailors Marry?
Movie · as Train Passenger
The Wages of Tin
Movie · as Meg's Mother
Laughing Ladies
Movie · as The Dentist's Assistant
Unfriendly Enemies
Movie · as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
Just a Minute
Movie · as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
April Fool
Movie · as The Editor's Wife
Bungalow Boobs
Movie · as The Neighbor Wife
Short Kilts
Movie · as Mrs. McHungry
Postage Due
Movie
The Cowboy Sheik
Movie · as The cook
Sittin' Pretty
Movie
The 'Fraidy Cat
Movie · as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie
Stolen Goods
Movie · as Shopper (uncredited)
All Wet
Movie · as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
The Whole Truth
Movie · as The wife
Post No Bills
Movie
Safety Last!
Movie · as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
Tight Shoes
Movie
It's a Joy!
Movie · as His Mother-in-Law
Good Men and True
Movie · as Mrs. Fite
Impulse
Movie · as Mrs. Cameron
Dangerous Paths
Movie · as Deborah Hammond
Never Weaken
Movie · as (uncredited)
The Blazing Trail
Movie · as Village Talking Machine
Down Home
Movie · as Townswoman
His Royal Slyness
Movie · as Queen Razzamatazz
Fickle Women
Movie · as Mrs. Cullison
A Bashful Bigamist
Movie · as Uncle Oswald's Wife
Bumping Into Broadway
Movie · as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
Captain Kidd's Kids
Movie · as The Girl's mother
Just Neighbors
Movie · as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
It's a Wild Life
Movie · as The girl's mother
The City Slicker
Movie · as Girl's Mother
Bees in His Bonnet
Movie
Follow the Crowd
Movie
Two Scrambled
Movie
That's Him
Movie
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Movie · as Old lady in park
An Ozark Romance
Movie
Take a Chance
Movie · as Landlady
Huck and Tom
Movie · as Widow Douglas
Hey There
Movie
Nothing But Trouble
Movie
Pipe the Whiskers
Movie
Bride and Gloom
Movie
A Petticoat Pilot
Movie · as Mrs. Hobbs
Tom Sawyer
Movie · as Widow Douglas
Never Again
Movie
The Eagle's Mate
Movie · as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)