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).

It's a Joy!

His Mother-in-Law

The 'Fraidy Cat

Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)

His Wooden Wedding

(uncredited)

Down Home

Townswoman

Dangerous Paths

Deborah Hammond

Sensation Seekers

Mrs. Todd

Madame Mystery

Shivering Shakespeare

Woman in audience (uncredited)

It's a Wild Life

The girl's mother

An Ozark Romance

What's the World Coming To?

A Neighbor

Pipe the Whiskers

Tom Sawyer

Widow Douglas

The Eagle's Mate

Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)

Say It with Babies

Safety Last!

Department Store Customer (uncredited)

Sherlock Sleuth

Haughty Guest's Wife

Moonlight and Noses

His Royal Slyness

Queen Razzamatazz

Bumping Into Broadway

'Bearcat' the Landlady

Should Sailors Marry?

Train Passenger

Fickle Women

The Whole Truth

The wife

April Fool

The Editor's Wife

Bromo and Juliet

Bit Role (uncredited)

Hey There

The Wages of Tin

Meg's Mother

Post No Bills

Impulse

Mrs. Cameron

Short Kilts

Mrs. McHungry

Take a Chance

Landlady

Long Fliv the King

Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)

Never Again

Unfriendly Enemies

Laughing Woman (uncredited)

Don Key (Son of Burro)

Captain Kidd's Kids

The Girl's mother

Bees in His Bonnet

All Wet

Boarding house landlady (uncredited)

Laughing Ladies

The Dentist's Assistant

Just a Minute

Caroline - the Mayor's Wife

Zeb vs. Paprika

Huck and Tom

Widow Douglas

Chasing the Chaser

The neighbor

That's Him

Postage Due

The Cowboy Sheik

The cook

The Haunted Honeymoon

Bride and Gloom

The City Slicker

Girl's Mother

Are Crooks Dishonest?

Old lady in park

A Bashful Bigamist

Uncle Oswald's Wife

Nothing But Trouble

Two Scrambled

Never Weaken