Helen Gilmore
Acting • Born 1862-01-04 – Died 1936-11-16
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).
Filmography
64 credits
Down Home
Movie • 1920
Townswoman
It's a Wild Life
Movie • 1918
The girl's mother
The Haunted Honeymoon
Movie • 1925
Never Again
Movie • 1915
Sherlock Sleuth
Movie • 1925
Haughty Guest's Wife
Moonlight and Noses
Movie • 1925
Just a Minute
Movie • 1924
Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
April Fool
Movie • 1924
The Editor's Wife
Bungalow Boobs
Movie • 1924
The Neighbor Wife
Dangerous Paths
Movie • 1921
Deborah Hammond
Bumping Into Broadway
Movie • 1919
'Bearcat' the Landlady
Captain Kidd's Kids
Movie • 1919
The Girl's mother
The City Slicker
Movie • 1918
Girl's Mother
Good Men and True
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Fite
Bees in His Bonnet
Movie • 1918
Never Weaken
Movie • 1921
(uncredited)
Follow the Crowd
Movie • 1918
Two Scrambled
Movie • 1918
That's Him
Movie • 1918
Just Neighbors
Movie • 1919
Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Movie • 1918
Old lady in park
Say It with Babies
Movie • 1926
An Ozark Romance
Movie • 1918
The Whole Truth
Movie • 1923
The wife
Chasing the Chaser
Movie • 1925
The neighbor
Take a Chance
Movie • 1918
Landlady
Short Kilts
Movie • 1924
Mrs. McHungry
Huck and Tom
Movie • 1918
Widow Douglas
Sensation Seekers
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Todd
Postage Due
Movie • 1924
His Wooden Wedding
Movie • 1925
(uncredited)
Hey There
Movie • 1918
Post No Bills
Movie • 1923
Shivering Shakespeare
Movie • 1930
Woman in audience (uncredited)
The Cowboy Sheik
Movie • 1924
The cook
The Blazing Trail
Movie • 1921
Village Talking Machine
What's the World Coming To?
Movie • 1926
A Neighbor
The 'Fraidy Cat
Movie • 1924
Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
Sittin' Pretty
Movie • 1924
Nothing But Trouble
Movie • 1918
Pipe the Whiskers
Movie • 1918
Madame Mystery
Movie • 1926
Bromo and Juliet
Movie • 1926
Bit Role (uncredited)
Big Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1925
Red Riding Hood
His Royal Slyness
Movie • 1920
Queen Razzamatazz
Safety Last!
Movie • 1923
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
The Eagle's Mate
Movie • 1914
Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)
Bride and Gloom
Movie • 1918
Tight Shoes
Movie • 1923
It's a Joy!
Movie • 1923
His Mother-in-Law
Fickle Women
Movie • 1920
Should Sailors Marry?
Movie • 1925
Train Passenger
The Wages of Tin
Movie • 1925
Meg's Mother
A Bashful Bigamist
Movie • 1920
Uncle Oswald's Wife
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie • 1924
Stolen Goods
Movie • 1924
Shopper (uncredited)
Tom Sawyer
Movie • 1917
Widow Douglas
Laughing Ladies
Movie • 1925
The Dentist's Assistant
All Wet
Movie • 1924
Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie • 2024
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Long Fliv the King
Movie • 1926
Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Impulse
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Cameron
Unfriendly Enemies
Movie • 1925
Laughing Woman (uncredited)
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Movie • 1926