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