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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Shivering Shakespeare | Woman in audience (uncredited) | 1930-01-25 |
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Sensation Seekers | Mrs. Todd | 1927-03-21 |
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What's the World Coming To? | A Neighbor | 1926-01-16 |
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Say It with Babies | 1926-05-16 | |
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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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Chasing the Chaser | The neighbor | 1925-07-04 |
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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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Big Red Riding Hood | Red Riding Hood | 1925-04-26 |
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Sherlock Sleuth | Haughty Guest's Wife | 1925-07-12 |
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Laughing Ladies | The Dentist's Assistant | 1925-01-01 |
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The Haunted Honeymoon | 1925-03-29 | |
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The Wages of Tin | Meg's Mother | 1925-01-04 |
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Moonlight and Noses | 1925-10-03 | |
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Short Kilts | Mrs. McHungry | 1924-08-03 |
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All Wet | Boarding house landlady (uncredited) | 1924-01-01 |
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Zeb vs. Paprika | 1924-03-16 | |
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Stolen Goods | Shopper (uncredited) | 1924-06-29 |
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The Cowboy Sheik | The cook | 1924-02-03 |
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The 'Fraidy Cat | Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited) | 1924-03-29 |
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Sittin' Pretty | 1924-09-27 | |
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Postage Due | 1924-02-17 | |
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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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Bungalow Boobs | The Neighbor Wife | 1924-10-26 |
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Tight Shoes | 1923-02-25 | |
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It's a Joy! | His Mother-in-Law | 1923-12-30 |
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The Whole Truth | The wife | 1923-11-03 |
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Safety Last! | Department Store Customer (uncredited) | 1923-04-01 |
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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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The Blazing Trail | Village Talking Machine | 1921-05-01 |
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Never Weaken | (uncredited) | 1921-10-22 |
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Dangerous Paths | Deborah Hammond | 1921-07-01 |
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Fickle Women | 1920-08-09 | |
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His Royal Slyness | Queen Razzamatazz | 1920-02-08 |
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A Bashful Bigamist | Uncle Oswald's Wife | 1920-07-15 |
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Down Home | Townswoman | 1920-10-01 |
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Bumping Into Broadway | 'Bearcat' the Landlady | 1919-11-02 |
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Just Neighbors | Old Woman with Packages (uncredited) | 1919-07-13 |
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Captain Kidd's Kids | The Girl's mother | 1919-11-30 |
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Bride and Gloom | 1918-08-18 | |
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It's a Wild Life | 1918-04-21 | |
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Pipe the Whiskers | 1918-04-14 | |
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Are Crooks Dishonest? | Old lady in park | 1918-06-23 |
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Two Scrambled | 1918-09-01 | |
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Huck and Tom | Widow Douglas | 1918-03-04 |
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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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The City Slicker | Girl's Mother | 1918-06-02 |
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Hey There | 1918-04-28 | |
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That's Him | 1918-08-04 | |
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Bees in His Bonnet | 1918-09-15 | |
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Nothing But Trouble | 1918-10-26 | |
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Follow the Crowd | 1918-04-07 | |
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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 |
