Helen Gilmore

Known for ActingBorn 1862-01-04Died 1936-11-16 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).Read more

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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Sherlock Sleuth

Bungalow Boobs

Tight Shoes

Impulse

Dangerous Paths

Down Home

Don Key (Son of Burro)

The Wages of Tin

Laughing Ladies

The Blazing Trail

Safety Last!

Post No Bills

His Wooden Wedding

The Haunted Honeymoon

Sittin' Pretty

Stolen Goods

The Whole Truth

It's a Joy!

Good Men and True

Fickle Women

Never Weaken

Bumping Into Broadway

The 'Fraidy Cat

Sensation Seekers

Hey There

Say It with Babies

Madame Mystery

Chasing the Chaser

Big Red Riding Hood

Unfriendly Enemies

The Cowboy Sheik

Just Neighbors

Long Fliv the King

Just a Minute

Postage Due

Captain Kidd's Kids

Take a Chance

April Fool

Shivering Shakespeare

His Royal Slyness

Moonlight and Noses

Should Sailors Marry?

All Wet

Zeb vs. Paprika

Bromo and Juliet

Are Crooks Dishonest?

A Bashful Bigamist