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).
Safety Last!
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances...
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Never Weaken
as (uncredited)Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her...
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Take a Chance
as LandladyIt's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict...
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Shivering Shakespeare
as Woman in audience (uncredited)The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present...
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Bumping Into Broadway
as 'Bearcat' the LandladyA young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his...
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Captain Kidd's Kids
as The Girl's motherAfter a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters...
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Zeb vs. Paprika
as uncreditedStan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Tom Sawyer
as Widow DouglasSilent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack...
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Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. ToddRay Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an...
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Just Neighbors
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up...
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Just a Minute
as Caroline - the Mayor's WifeA car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.
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His Royal Slyness
as Queen RazzamatazzA young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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That's Him
as uncreditedOur newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train...
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The 'Fraidy Cat
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the...
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Follow the Crowd
as uncreditedA clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The...
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What's the World Coming To?
as A NeighborShort comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and...
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Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on...
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Post No Bills
as uncreditedPaul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach...
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Moonlight and Noses
as uncreditedTwo burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to...
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Two Scrambled
as uncreditedRoomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic...
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Short Kilts
as Mrs. McHungryAs a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for...
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All Wet
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)Charley Chase has car trouble.
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The City Slicker
as Girl's MotherOur hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing...
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Chasing the Chaser
as The neighborA very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have...
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Laughing Ladies
as The Dentist's AssistantLucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the...
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
as Old lady in parkCon artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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Stolen Goods
as Shopper (uncredited)A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
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Down Home
as TownswomanDOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of...
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Hey There
as uncreditedIn this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive...
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An Ozark Romance
as uncreditedHarold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her...
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His Wooden Wedding
as (uncredited)A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating...
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Madame Mystery
as uncreditedA female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the...
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April Fool
as The Editor's WifeJimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in...
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Big Red Riding Hood
as Red Riding HoodJimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red...
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Good Men and True
as Mrs. FiteJ. Wesley Pringle and S. S. Thorpe are running against each other for sheriff. Unscrupulous...
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It's a Wild Life
as uncreditedHarold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides...
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The Haunted Honeymoon
as uncreditedThe Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted...
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Pipe the Whiskers
as uncreditedOur hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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A Bashful Bigamist
as Uncle Oswald's WifeA wife plots to keep her husband at home.
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The Blazing Trail
as Village Talking MachineYoung doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood...
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Nothing But Trouble
as uncreditedHarold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster...
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Sittin' Pretty
as uncreditedWhen Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his...
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Bees in His Bonnet
as uncreditedBees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed...
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The Whole Truth
as The wifeA prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly...
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Bungalow Boobs
as The Neighbor WifeJimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the...
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Huck and Tom
as Widow DouglasThe adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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Postage Due
as uncreditedStan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the...
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Dangerous Paths
as Deborah HammondDangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film
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The Eagle's Mate
as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)A young girl, Anemone, who lives with her Aunt is abducted by a crude family of Virginia...
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