Helen Gilmore
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).
Acting
Movie
Safety Last!
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
1923
Movie
Never Weaken
as (uncredited)
1921
Movie
Bumping Into Broadway
as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
1919
Movie
His Royal Slyness
as Queen Razzamatazz
1920
Movie
Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Girl's mother
1919
Movie
Take a Chance
as Landlady
1918
Movie
Just Neighbors
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
1919
Movie
Short Kilts
as Mrs. McHungry
1924
Movie
The City Slicker
as Girl's Mother
1918
Movie
Are Crooks Dishonest?
as Old lady in park
1918
Movie
Hey There
1918
Movie
Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1926
Movie
Should Sailors Marry?
as Train Passenger
1925
Movie
What's the World Coming To?
as A Neighbor
1926
Movie
Tom Sawyer
as Widow Douglas
1917
Movie
Shivering Shakespeare
as Woman in audience (uncredited)
1930
Movie
April Fool
as The Editor's Wife
1924
Movie
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Todd
1927
Movie
All Wet
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
1924
Movie
Long Fliv the King
as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
1926
Movie
His Wooden Wedding
as (uncredited)
1925
Movie
The 'Fraidy Cat
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
1924
Movie
Madame Mystery
1926
Movie
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924