Name
Helen Gilmore
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1862-01-04
Deathday
1936-11-16 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
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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- 1920 Down Home as Townswoman
- 1918 It's a Wild Life as The girl's mother
- 1925 The Haunted Honeymoon
- 1915 Never Again
- 1925 Sherlock Sleuth as Haughty Guest's Wife
- 1925 Moonlight and Noses
- 1924 Just a Minute as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
- 1924 April Fool as The Editor's Wife
- 1924 Bungalow Boobs as The Neighbor Wife
- 1921 Dangerous Paths as Deborah Hammond
- 1919 Bumping Into Broadway as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
- 1919 Captain Kidd's Kids as The Girl's mother
- 1918 The City Slicker as Girl's Mother
- 1922 Good Men and True as Mrs. Fite
- 1918 Bees in His Bonnet
- 1921 Never Weaken as (uncredited)
- 1918 Follow the Crowd
- 1918 Two Scrambled
- 1918 That's Him
- 1919 Just Neighbors as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
- 1918 Are Crooks Dishonest? as Old lady in park
- 1926 Say It with Babies
- 1918 An Ozark Romance
- 1923 The Whole Truth as The wife
- 1925 Chasing the Chaser as The neighbor
- 1918 Take a Chance as Landlady
- 1924 Short Kilts as Mrs. McHungry
- 1918 Huck and Tom as Widow Douglas
- 1927 Sensation Seekers as Mrs. Todd
- 1924 Postage Due
- 1925 His Wooden Wedding as (uncredited)
- 1918 Hey There
- 1923 Post No Bills
- 1930 Shivering Shakespeare as Woman in audience (uncredited)
- 1924 The Cowboy Sheik as The cook
- 1921 The Blazing Trail as Village Talking Machine
- 1926 What's the World Coming To? as A Neighbor
- 1924 The 'Fraidy Cat as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
- 1924 Sittin' Pretty
- 1918 Nothing But Trouble
- 1918 Pipe the Whiskers
- 1926 Madame Mystery
- 1926 Bromo and Juliet as Bit Role (uncredited)
- 1925 Big Red Riding Hood as Red Riding Hood
- 1920 His Royal Slyness as Queen Razzamatazz
- 1923 Safety Last! as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
- 1914 The Eagle's Mate as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)
- 1918 Bride and Gloom
- 1923 Tight Shoes
- 1923 It's a Joy! as His Mother-in-Law
- 1920 Fickle Women as Mrs. Cullison
- 1925 Should Sailors Marry? as Train Passenger
- 1925 The Wages of Tin as Meg's Mother
- 1920 A Bashful Bigamist as Uncle Oswald's Wife
- 1924 Zeb vs. Paprika
- 1924 Stolen Goods as Shopper (uncredited)
- 1917 Tom Sawyer as Widow Douglas
- 1925 Laughing Ladies as The Dentist's Assistant
- 1924 All Wet as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
- 2024 Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1926 Long Fliv the King as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
- 1922 Impulse as Mrs. Cameron
- 1925 Unfriendly Enemies as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
- 1926 Don Key (Son of Burro)
- 1918 A Petticoat Pilot as Mrs. Hobbs
