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).
Acted in 60
2020s
- 2024
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1930s
- 1930
Shivering Shakespeare
Woman in audience (uncredited)
1920s
- 1927
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Todd
- 1926
Bromo and Juliet
Bit Role (uncredited)
Long Fliv the King
Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Movie
Say It with Babies
Movie
Madame Mystery
Movie
What's the World Coming To?
A Neighbor
- 1925
His Wooden Wedding
(uncredited)
Should Sailors Marry?
Train Passenger
Moonlight and Noses
Movie
Unfriendly Enemies
Laughing Woman (uncredited)
Chasing the Chaser
The neighbor
Big Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood
The Haunted Honeymoon
Movie
The Wages of Tin
Meg's Mother
Laughing Ladies
The Dentist's Assistant
- 1924
Bungalow Boobs
The Neighbor Wife
Sittin' Pretty
Movie
Short Kilts
Mrs. McHungry
Stolen Goods
Shopper (uncredited)
April Fool
The Editor's Wife
The 'Fraidy Cat
Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie
Postage Due
Movie
The Cowboy Sheik
The cook
Just a Minute
Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
All Wet
Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
- 1923
The Whole Truth
The wife
Post No Bills
Movie
- 1922
Good Men and True
Mrs. Fite
Impulse
Mrs. Cameron
- 1921
Dangerous Paths
Deborah Hammond
The Blazing Trail
Village Talking Machine
- 1920
Down Home
Townswoman
A Bashful Bigamist
Uncle Oswald's Wife
His Royal Slyness
Queen Razzamatazz
1910s
- 1919
Just Neighbors
Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
- 1918
Nothing But Trouble
Movie
Bees in His Bonnet
Movie
Two Scrambled
Movie
Bride and Gloom
Movie
That's Him
Movie
An Ozark Romance
Movie
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Old lady in park
The City Slicker
Girl's Mother
Hey There
Movie
It's a Wild Life
The girl's mother
Pipe the Whiskers
Movie
Follow the Crowd
Movie
Huck and Tom
Widow Douglas
A Petticoat Pilot
Mrs. Hobbs
- 1917
Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas
- 1914
The Eagle's Mate
Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)
