Helen Gilmore
Biography
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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Movies (50)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Shivering Shakespeare
as Woman in audience (uncredited)
1930
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Todd
1927
Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1926
Long Fliv the King
as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926
Say It with Babies
1926
Madame Mystery
1926
What's the World Coming To?
as A Neighbor
1926
His Wooden Wedding
as (uncredited)
1925
Should Sailors Marry?
as Train Passenger
1925
Moonlight and Noses
1925
Unfriendly Enemies
as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
1925
Sherlock Sleuth
as Haughty Guest's Wife
1925
Chasing the Chaser
as The neighbor
1925
Big Red Riding Hood
as Red Riding Hood
1925
The Haunted Honeymoon
1925
The Wages of Tin
as Meg's Mother
1925
Laughing Ladies
as The Dentist's Assistant
1925
Bungalow Boobs
as The Neighbor Wife
1924
Sittin' Pretty
1924
Short Kilts
as Mrs. McHungry
1924
Stolen Goods
as Shopper (uncredited)
1924
April Fool
as The Editor's Wife
1924
The 'Fraidy Cat
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
Postage Due
1924
The Cowboy Sheik
as The cook
1924
Just a Minute
as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
1924
All Wet
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
1924
It's a Joy!
as His Mother-in-Law
1923
The Whole Truth
as The wife
1923
Post No Bills
1923
Safety Last!
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
1923
Tight Shoes
1923
Good Men and True
as Mrs. Fite
1922
Impulse
as Mrs. Cameron
1922
Never Weaken
as (uncredited)
1921
Dangerous Paths
as Deborah Hammond
1921
The Blazing Trail
as Village Talking Machine
1921
Down Home
as Townswoman
1920
Fickle Women
1920
A Bashful Bigamist
as Uncle Oswald's Wife
1920
His Royal Slyness
as Queen Razzamatazz
1920
Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Girl's mother
1919
Bumping Into Broadway
as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
1919
Just Neighbors
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
1919
Take a Chance
as Landlady
1918
Nothing But Trouble
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
1918