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: Acting

Born: Washington, District of Columbia, USA, 1862-01-04

Died: 1936-11-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	The Eagle's Mate	Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)	50
2	1915	Never Again		0
3	1917	Tom Sawyer	Widow Douglas	50
4	1918	Huck and Tom	Widow Douglas	0
5	1918	Follow the Crowd		55
6	1918	Pipe the Whiskers		50
7	1918	It's a Wild Life		50
8	1918	Hey There		69
9	1918	The City Slicker	Girl's Mother	50
10	1918	Are Crooks Dishonest?	Old lady in park	56
11	1918	An Ozark Romance		0
12	1918	That's Him		50
13	1918	Bride and Gloom		0
14	1918	Two Scrambled		0
15	1918	Bees in His Bonnet		0
16	1918	Nothing But Trouble		0
17	1918	Take a Chance	Landlady	60
18	1919	Just Neighbors	Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)	64
19	1919	Bumping Into Broadway	'Bearcat' the Landlady	69
20	1919	Captain Kidd's Kids	The Girl's mother	63
21	1920	His Royal Slyness	Queen Razzamatazz	58
22	1920	A Bashful Bigamist	Uncle Oswald's Wife	55
23	1920	Fickle Women		0
24	1920	Down Home	Townswoman	0
25	1921	The Blazing Trail	Village Talking Machine	0
26	1921	Dangerous Paths	Deborah Hammond	0
27	1921	Never Weaken	(uncredited)	67
28	1922	Impulse	Mrs. Cameron	0
29	1922	Good Men and True	Mrs. Fite	0
30	1923	Tight Shoes		0
31	1923	Safety Last!	Department Store Customer (uncredited)	77
32	1923	Post No Bills		50
33	1923	The Whole Truth	The wife	55
34	1923	It's a Joy!	His Mother-in-Law	0
35	1924	All Wet	Boarding house landlady (uncredited)	52
36	1924	Just a Minute	Caroline - the Mayor's Wife	50
37	1924	The Cowboy Sheik	The cook	50
38	1924	Postage Due		53
39	1924	Zeb vs. Paprika		55
40	1924	The 'Fraidy Cat	Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)	68
41	1924	April Fool	The Editor's Wife	56
42	1924	Stolen Goods	Shopper (uncredited)	50
43	1924	Short Kilts	Mrs. McHungry	53
44	1924	Sittin' Pretty		50
45	1924	Bungalow Boobs	The Neighbor Wife	0
46	1925	Laughing Ladies	The Dentist's Assistant	0
47	1925	The Wages of Tin	Meg's Mother	0
48	1925	The Haunted Honeymoon		0
49	1925	Big Red Riding Hood	Red Riding Hood	50
50	1925	Chasing the Chaser	The neighbor	60
51	1925	Sherlock Sleuth	Haughty Guest's Wife	0
52	1925	Moonlight and Noses		45
53	1925	Should Sailors Marry?	Train Passenger	54
54	1925	His Wooden Wedding	(uncredited)	64
55	1926	What's the World Coming To?	A Neighbor	45
56	1926	Madame Mystery		56
57	1926	Say It with Babies		50
58	1926	Long Fliv the King	Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)	56
59	1926	Bromo and Juliet	Bit Role (uncredited)	56
60	1927	Sensation Seekers	Mrs. Todd	64
61	1930	Shivering Shakespeare	Woman in audience (uncredited)	57
62	2024	Laurel & Hardy: Year Two		100

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1914