Helen Gilmore
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).
Known For
Credits
- 1930 · Shivering Shakespeare as Woman in audience (uncredited)
- 1927 · Sensation Seekers as Mrs. Todd
- 1926 · Bromo and Juliet as Bit Role (uncredited)
- 1926 · Say It with Babies as
- 1926 · Madame Mystery as
- 1926 · What's the World Coming To? as A Neighbor
- 1925 · His Wooden Wedding as (uncredited)
- 1925 · Should Sailors Marry? as Train Passenger
- 1925 · Moonlight and Noses as
- 1925 · Sherlock Sleuth as Haughty Guest's Wife
- 1925 · Chasing the Chaser as The neighbor
- 1925 · Big Red Riding Hood as Red Riding Hood
- 1925 · The Haunted Honeymoon as
- 1925 · The Wages of Tin as Meg's Mother
- 1925 · Laughing Ladies as The Dentist's Assistant
- 1924 · Bungalow Boobs as The Neighbor Wife
- 1924 · Sittin' Pretty as
- 1924 · Short Kilts as Mrs. McHungry
- 1924 · Stolen Goods as Shopper (uncredited)
- 1924 · April Fool as The Editor's Wife
- 1924 · The 'Fraidy Cat as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
- 1924 · Zeb vs. Paprika as
- 1924 · Postage Due as
- 1924 · The Cowboy Sheik as The cook
- 1924 · Just a Minute as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
- 1924 · All Wet as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
- 1923 · It's a Joy! as His Mother-in-Law
- 1923 · The Whole Truth as The wife
- 1923 · Post No Bills as
- 1923 · Safety Last! as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
- 1923 · Tight Shoes as
- 1922 · Good Men and True as Mrs. Fite
- 1921 · Never Weaken as (uncredited)
- 1921 · Dangerous Paths as Deborah Hammond
- 1921 · The Blazing Trail as Village Talking Machine
- 1920 · Down Home as Townswoman
- 1920 · Fickle Women as
- 1920 · A Bashful Bigamist as Uncle Oswald's Wife
- 1920 · His Royal Slyness as Queen Razzamatazz
- 1919 · Captain Kidd's Kids as The Girl's mother
- 1919 · Bumping Into Broadway as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
- 1919 · Just Neighbors as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
- 1918 · Take a Chance as Landlady
- 1918 · Nothing But Trouble as
- 1918 · Bees in His Bonnet as
- 1918 · Two Scrambled as
- 1918 · Bride and Gloom as
- 1918 · That's Him as
- 1918 · An Ozark Romance as
- 1918 · Are Crooks Dishonest? as Old lady in park
- 1918 · The City Slicker as Girl's Mother
- 1918 · Hey There as
- 1918 · It's a Wild Life as
- 1918 · Pipe the Whiskers as
- 1918 · Follow the Crowd as
- 1918 · Huck and Tom as Widow Douglas
- 1917 · Tom Sawyer as Widow Douglas
- 1915 · Never Again as
- 1914 · The Eagle's Mate as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)