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