Helen Gilmore
Acting
Born 1862-01-04
Died 1936-11-16
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
65 credits
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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
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Acting
42 credits
Safety Last!
Unfriendly Enemies
Impulse
Bungalow Boobs
Just Neighbors
A Petticoat Pilot
Good Men and True
Bumping Into Broadway
Long Fliv the King
The Cowboy Sheik
It's a Wild Life
All Wet
A Bashful Bigamist
Huck and Tom
Short Kilts
April Fool
It's a Joy!
Big Red Riding Hood
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Eagle's Mate
Tom Sawyer
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Just a Minute
Sensation Seekers
His Wooden Wedding
Never Weaken
The Wages of Tin
Bromo and Juliet
Shivering Shakespeare
Fickle Women
His Royal Slyness
The Whole Truth
The City Slicker
Take a Chance
Stolen Goods
The Blazing Trail
Down Home
Laughing Ladies
What's the World Coming To?
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Sherlock Sleuth
Dangerous Paths
Other credits
18 credits
Sittin' Pretty
Tight Shoes
Two Scrambled
Zeb vs. Paprika
That's Him
Hey There
Bride and Gloom
Bees in His Bonnet
An Ozark Romance
Madame Mystery
Follow the Crowd
Postage Due
Say It with Babies
Nothing But Trouble
Moonlight and Noses
Pipe the Whiskers
The Haunted Honeymoon
Don Key (Son of Burro)
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