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