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