Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA · Born January 4, 1862
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).
MovieLaurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieShivering Shakespeare
1930
as Woman in audience (uncredited)
MovieSensation Seekers
1927
as Mrs. Todd
MovieBromo and Juliet
1926
as Bit Role (uncredited)
MovieLong Fliv the King
1926
as Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
MovieDon Key (Son of Burro)
1926
MovieSay It with Babies
1926
MovieMadame Mystery
1926
MovieWhat's the World Coming To?
1926
as A Neighbor
MovieHis Wooden Wedding
1925
as (uncredited)
MovieShould Sailors Marry?
1925
as Train Passenger
MovieMoonlight and Noses
1925
MovieUnfriendly Enemies
1925
as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
Sherlock Sleuth
1925
as Haughty Guest's Wife
MovieChasing the Chaser
1925
as The neighbor
MovieBig Red Riding Hood
1925
as Red Riding Hood
MovieThe Haunted Honeymoon
1925
MovieThe Wages of Tin
1925
as Meg's Mother
MovieLaughing Ladies
1925
as The Dentist's Assistant
MovieBungalow Boobs
1924
as The Neighbor Wife
MovieSittin' Pretty
1924
MovieShort Kilts
1924
as Mrs. McHungry
MovieStolen Goods
1924
as Shopper (uncredited)
MovieApril Fool
1924
as The Editor's Wife
MovieThe 'Fraidy Cat
1924
as Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
MovieZeb vs. Paprika
1924
MoviePostage Due
1924
MovieThe Cowboy Sheik
1924
as The cook
MovieJust a Minute
1924
as Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
MovieAll Wet
1924
as Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
It's a Joy!
1923
as His Mother-in-Law
MovieThe Whole Truth
1923
as The wife
MoviePost No Bills
1923
MovieSafety Last!
1923
as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
Tight Shoes
1923
MovieGood Men and True
1922
as Mrs. Fite
MovieImpulse
1922
as Mrs. Cameron
MovieNever Weaken
1921
as (uncredited)
MovieDangerous Paths
1921
as Deborah Hammond
MovieThe Blazing Trail
1921
as Village Talking Machine
MovieDown Home
1920
as Townswoman
Fickle Women
1920
as Mrs. Cullison
MovieA Bashful Bigamist
1920
as Uncle Oswald's Wife
MovieHis Royal Slyness
1920
as Queen Razzamatazz
MovieCaptain Kidd's Kids
1919
as The Girl's mother
MovieBumping Into Broadway
1919
as 'Bearcat' the Landlady
MovieJust Neighbors
1919
as Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
MovieTake a Chance
1918
as Landlady
MovieNothing But Trouble
1918
MovieBees in His Bonnet
1918
MovieTwo Scrambled
1918
MovieBride and Gloom
1918
MovieThat's Him
1918
MovieAn Ozark Romance
1918
MovieAre Crooks Dishonest?
1918
as Old lady in park
MovieThe City Slicker
1918
as Girl's Mother
MovieHey There
1918
MovieIt's a Wild Life
1918
as The girl's mother
MoviePipe the Whiskers
1918
MovieFollow the Crowd
1918
MovieHuck and Tom
1918
as Widow Douglas
MovieA Petticoat Pilot
1918
as Mrs. Hobbs
MovieTom Sawyer
1917
as Widow Douglas
Never Again
1915
MovieThe Eagle's Mate
1914
as Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)
