Helen Gilmore
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).
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
64
Gender
Female
Birthday
1862-01-04 (163 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Acting

2024

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as Not available

1930

Shivering Shakespeare as Woman in audience (uncredited)

1927

Sensation Seekers as Mrs. Todd

1926

Say It with Babies as Not available

1926

What's the World Coming To? as A Neighbor

1926

Madame Mystery as Not available

1926

Bromo and Juliet as Bit Role (uncredited)

1926

Long Fliv the King as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)

1926

Don Key (Son of Burro) as Not available

1925

His Wooden Wedding as (uncredited)

1925

Sherlock Sleuth as Haughty Guest's Wife

1925

Moonlight and Noses as Not available

1925

Should Sailors Marry? as Train Passenger

1925

The Wages of Tin as Meg's Mother

1925

Laughing Ladies as The Dentist's Assistant

1925

Unfriendly Enemies as Laughing Woman (uncredited)

1925

Chasing the Chaser as The neighbor

1925

The Haunted Honeymoon as Not available

1925

Big Red Riding Hood as Red Riding Hood

1924

The 'Fraidy Cat as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)

1924

April Fool as The Editor's Wife

1924

Short Kilts as Mrs. McHungry

1924

Just a Minute as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife

1924

All Wet as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)

1924

Zeb vs. Paprika as Not available

1924

Postage Due as Not available

1924

The Cowboy Sheik as The cook

1924

Stolen Goods as Shopper (uncredited)

1924

Sittin' Pretty as Not available

1924

Bungalow Boobs as The Neighbor Wife

1923

It's a Joy! as His Mother-in-Law

1923

Safety Last! as Department Store Customer (uncredited)

1923

The Whole Truth as The wife

1923

Post No Bills as Not available

1923

Tight Shoes as Not available

1922

Impulse as Mrs. Cameron

1922

Good Men and True as Mrs. Fite

1921

Dangerous Paths as Deborah Hammond

1921

Never Weaken as (uncredited)

1921

The Blazing Trail as Village Talking Machine

1920

Down Home as Townswoman

1920

His Royal Slyness as Queen Razzamatazz

1920

Fickle Women as Not available

1920

A Bashful Bigamist as Uncle Oswald's Wife

1919

Bumping Into Broadway as 'Bearcat' the Landlady

1919

Captain Kidd's Kids as The Girl's mother

1919

Just Neighbors as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)

1918

It's a Wild Life as The girl's mother

1918

Pipe the Whiskers as Not available

1918

An Ozark Romance as Not available

1918

Hey There as Not available

1918

Take a Chance as Landlady

1918

Bees in His Bonnet as Not available

1918

That's Him as Not available

1918

Huck and Tom as Widow Douglas

1918

Bride and Gloom as Not available

1918

The City Slicker as Girl's Mother

1918

Are Crooks Dishonest? as Old lady in park

1918

Two Scrambled as Not available

1918

Nothing But Trouble as Not available

1918

Follow the Crowd as Not available

1917

Tom Sawyer as Widow Douglas

1915

Never Again as Not available

1914

The Eagle's Mate as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)