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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Say It with Babies | 1926-05-16 | |
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Madame Mystery | 1926-03-12 | |
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Long Fliv the King | Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited) | 1926-06-13 |
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Don Key (Son of Burro) | 1926-05-23 | |
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Bromo and Juliet | Bit Role (uncredited) | 1926-09-19 |
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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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His Wooden Wedding | (uncredited) | 1925-12-19 |
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The Wages of Tin | Meg's Mother | 1925-01-04 |
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Laughing Ladies | The Dentist's Assistant | 1925-01-01 |
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Should Sailors Marry? | Train Passenger | 1925-11-08 |
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Moonlight and Noses | 1925-10-03 | |
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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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Unfriendly Enemies | Laughing Woman (uncredited) | 1925-09-13 |
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The Haunted Honeymoon | 1925-03-29 | |
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The Cowboy Sheik | The cook | 1924-02-03 |
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Short Kilts | Mrs. McHungry | 1924-08-03 |
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Postage Due | 1924-02-17 | |
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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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Bungalow Boobs | The Neighbor Wife | 1924-10-26 |
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All Wet | Boarding house landlady (uncredited) | 1924-01-01 |
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Sittin' Pretty | 1924-09-27 | |
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The 'Fraidy Cat | Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited) | 1924-03-29 |
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Stolen Goods | Shopper (uncredited) | 1924-06-29 |
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April Fool | The Editor's Wife | 1924-05-18 |
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Safety Last! | Department Store Customer (uncredited) | 1923-04-01 |
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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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Post No Bills | 1923-08-05 | |
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Tight Shoes | 1923-02-25 | |
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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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Never Weaken | (uncredited) | 1921-10-22 |
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The Blazing Trail | Village Talking Machine | 1921-05-01 |
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His Royal Slyness | Queen Razzamatazz | 1920-02-08 |
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Fickle Women | 1920-08-09 | |
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Down Home | Townswoman | 1920-10-01 |
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A Bashful Bigamist | Uncle Oswald's Wife | 1920-07-15 |
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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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Just Neighbors | Old Woman with Packages (uncredited) | 1919-07-13 |
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Hey There | 1918-04-28 | |
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Two Scrambled | 1918-09-01 | |
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That's Him | 1918-08-04 | |
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Follow the Crowd | 1918-04-07 | |
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Bees in His Bonnet | 1918-09-15 | |
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It's a Wild Life | The girl's mother | 1918-04-21 |
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The City Slicker | Girl's Mother | 1918-06-02 |
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Bride and Gloom | 1918-08-18 | |
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Are Crooks Dishonest? | Old lady in park | 1918-06-23 |
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Pipe the Whiskers | 1918-04-14 | |
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Nothing But Trouble | 1918-10-26 | |
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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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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 |
