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