1862-01-04 Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two | 2024-10-29 | |
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Shivering Shakespeare | Woman in audience (uncredited) | 1930-01-25 |
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Sensation Seekers | Mrs. Todd | 1927-03-21 |
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Bromo and Juliet | Bit Role (uncredited) | 1926-09-19 |
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Madame Mystery | 1926-03-12 | |
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Say It with Babies | 1926-05-16 | |
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Long Fliv the King | Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited) | 1926-06-13 |
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What's the World Coming To? | A Neighbor | 1926-01-16 |
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Chasing the Chaser | The neighbor | 1925-07-04 |
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Big Red Riding Hood | Red Riding Hood | 1925-04-26 |
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Laughing Ladies | The Dentist's Assistant | 1925-01-01 |
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The Wages of Tin | Meg's Mother | 1925-01-04 |
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Should Sailors Marry? | Train Passenger | 1925-11-08 |
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His Wooden Wedding | (uncredited) | 1925-12-19 |
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Moonlight and Noses | 1925-10-03 | |
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Sherlock Sleuth | Haughty Guest's Wife | 1925-07-12 |
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The Haunted Honeymoon | 1925-03-29 | |
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Bungalow Boobs | The Neighbor Wife | 1924-10-26 |
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Sittin' Pretty | 1924-09-27 | |
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The Cowboy Sheik | The cook | 1924-02-03 |
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April Fool | The Editor's Wife | 1924-05-18 |
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Just a Minute | Caroline - the Mayor's Wife | 1924-02-02 |
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Zeb vs. Paprika | 1924-03-16 | |
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Postage Due | 1924-02-17 | |
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All Wet | Boarding house landlady (uncredited) | 1924-01-01 |
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Stolen Goods | Shopper (uncredited) | 1924-06-29 |
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The 'Fraidy Cat | Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited) | 1924-03-29 |
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Short Kilts | Mrs. McHungry | 1924-08-03 |
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The Whole Truth | The wife | 1923-11-03 |
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It's a Joy! | His Mother-in-Law | 1923-12-30 |
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Safety Last! | Department Store Customer (uncredited) | 1923-04-01 |
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Tight Shoes | 1923-02-25 | |
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Post No Bills | 1923-08-05 | |
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Good Men and True | Mrs. Fite | 1922-11-05 |
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Impulse | Mrs. Cameron | 1922-07-15 |
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Dangerous Paths | Deborah Hammond | 1921-07-01 |
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The Blazing Trail | Village Talking Machine | 1921-05-01 |
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Never Weaken | (uncredited) | 1921-10-22 |
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Fickle Women | 1920-08-09 | |
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A Bashful Bigamist | Uncle Oswald's Wife | 1920-07-15 |
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His Royal Slyness | Queen Razzamatazz | 1920-02-08 |
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Down Home | Townswoman | 1920-10-01 |
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Just Neighbors | Old Woman with Packages (uncredited) | 1919-07-13 |
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Bumping Into Broadway | 'Bearcat' the Landlady | 1919-11-02 |
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Captain Kidd's Kids | The Girl's mother | 1919-11-30 |
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Hey There | 1918-04-28 | |
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That's Him | 1918-08-04 | |
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Follow the Crowd | 1918-04-07 | |
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It's a Wild Life | The girl's mother | 1918-04-21 |
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Pipe the Whiskers | 1918-04-14 | |
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Two Scrambled | 1918-09-01 | |
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Are Crooks Dishonest? | Old lady in park | 1918-06-23 |
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Nothing But Trouble | 1918-10-26 | |
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The City Slicker | Girl's Mother | 1918-06-02 |
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Take a Chance | Landlady | 1918-12-15 |
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An Ozark Romance | 1918-07-06 | |
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Bees in His Bonnet | 1918-09-15 | |
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Bride and Gloom | 1918-08-18 | |
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Huck and Tom | Widow Douglas | 1918-03-04 |
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Tom Sawyer | Widow Douglas | 1917-12-10 |
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Never Again | 1915-09-11 | |
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The Eagle's Mate | Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore) | 1914-07-10 |
