
Helen Gilmore
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1862-01-04
Day of Death
1936-11-16 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Helen Gilmore
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).
Acting
(1930)
Shivering Shakespeare
as Woman in audience (uncredited)
(1927)
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Todd
(1926)
Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
What's the World Coming To?
as A Neighbor
(1925)
Laughing Ladies
as The Dentist's Assistant
(1925)
The Wages of Tin
as Meg's Mother
(1925)
Should Sailors Marry?
as Train Passenger
(1925)
His Wooden Wedding
as (uncredited)
(1925)
Big Red Riding Hood
as Red Riding Hood
(1925)
Sherlock Sleuth
as Haughty Guest's Wife
(1925)
(1925)
(1925)
Chasing the Chaser
as The neighbor
(1924)
(1924)
Short Kilts
as Mrs. McHungry
(1924)
(1924)
Stolen Goods
as Shopper (uncredited)
(1924)
The 'Fraidy Cat
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
(1924)
All Wet
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
(1924)
The Cowboy Sheik
as The cook
(1924)
(1924)
Bungalow Boobs
as The Neighbor Wife
(1924)
April Fool
as The Editor's Wife
(1924)
Just a Minute
as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
(1923)
Safety Last!
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
(1923)
The Whole Truth
as The wife
(1923)
(1923)
It's a Joy!
as His Mother-in-Law
(1923)
(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)
His Royal Slyness
as Queen Razzamatazz
(1920)
Down Home
as Townswoman
(1920)
A Bashful Bigamist
as Uncle Oswald's Wife
(1920)
(1919)
Bumping Into Broadway
as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
(1919)
Just Neighbors
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
(1919)
Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Girl's mother
(1918)
(1918)
Take a Chance
as Landlady
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
The City Slicker
as Girl's Mother
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
Are Crooks Dishonest?
as Old lady in park
(1918)
(1918)
Huck and Tom
as Widow Douglas
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
(1917)
Tom Sawyer
as Widow Douglas
(1915)
(1914)
The Eagle's Mate
as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)