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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5768 |
| Birthday | 1862-01-04 |
| Place of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| Also Known As | Antoinette Field, Helen Field Gilmore, Helen Gillmore, Antoinette A. Field, |
1920
Down Home
9/1
DOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of the town drunk. He was once a businessman and still o...
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Down Home
1918
It's a Wild Life
5/1
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
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It's a Wild Life
1925
The Haunted Honeymoon
7/1
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The Haunted Honeymoon
1915
Never Again
0/0
Tom promises his sweetheart, Vicky, that he will stop drinking. He falls in with boon companions, however, and in a saloon brawl, he accidentally shoo...
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Never Again
1925
Sherlock Sleuth
9/1
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," w...
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Sherlock Sleuth
1925
Moonlight and Noses
5.875/4
Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars -...
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Moonlight and Noses
1924
Just a Minute
6.333/3
A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.
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Just a Minute
1924
April Fool
6/6
Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday...
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April Fool
1924
Bungalow Boobs
9/1
Jimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the neighbors come to call that first evening. The man next doo...
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Bungalow Boobs
1921
Dangerous Paths
9/1
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Dangerous Paths
1919
Bumping Into Broadway
6.897/29
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he win...
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Bumping Into Broadway
1919
Captain Kidd's Kids
6.159/22
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasize...
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Captain Kidd's Kids
1918
The City Slicker
5.2/10
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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The City Slicker
1922
Good Men and True
7/1
J. Wesley Pringle and S. S. Thorpe are running against each other for sheriff. Unscrupulous Thorpe has his gang kidnap Pringle to prevent his win but...
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Good Men and True
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
0/0
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
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Bees in His Bonnet
1921
Never Weaken
6.906/48
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suic...
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Never Weaken
1918
Follow the Crowd
5.5/4
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved...
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Follow the Crowd
1918
Two Scrambled
0/0
Roomers in a boarding house break the rules and are caught cooking if their room. A frantic run-in with the landlady ensues.
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Two Scrambled
1918
That's Him
5/1
Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes wi...
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That's Him
1919
Just Neighbors
6.528/18
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying...
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Just Neighbors
1918
Are Crooks Dishonest?
5.6/9
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
1926
Say It with Babies
6.5/2
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expen...
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Say It with Babies
1918
An Ozark Romance
0/0
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
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An Ozark Romance
1923
The Whole Truth
7/3
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness b...
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The Whole Truth
1925
Chasing the Chaser
6.5/2
A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...
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Chasing the Chaser
1918
Take a Chance
6.1/20
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the count...
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Take a Chance
1924
Short Kilts
5.375/16
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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Short Kilts
1918
Huck and Tom
0/0
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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Huck and Tom
1927
Sensation Seekers
6.667/6
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town. After a scandalous...
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Sensation Seekers
1924
Postage Due
6.25/4
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that...
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Postage Due
1925
His Wooden Wedding
7.1/5
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
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His Wooden Wedding
1918
Hey There
6.8/8
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a...
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Hey There
1923
Post No Bills
7.333/3
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Sno...
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Post No Bills
1930
Shivering Shakespeare
5.929/7
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...
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Shivering Shakespeare
1924
The Cowboy Sheik
6.5/2
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
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The Cowboy Sheik
1921
The Blazing Trail
8/1
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the B...
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The Blazing Trail
1926
What's the World Coming To?
4.625/8
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, wi...
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What's the World Coming To?
1924
The 'Fraidy Cat
6.8/5
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their fa...
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The 'Fraidy Cat
1924
Sittin' Pretty
7/2
When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time...
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Sittin' Pretty
1918
Nothing But Trouble
0/0
Harold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster overtakes him and he is hurried off to jail at the close.
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Nothing But Trouble
1918
Pipe the Whiskers
5/1
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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Pipe the Whiskers
1926
Madame Mystery
6.5/5
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succee...
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Madame Mystery
1926
Bromo and Juliet
5.778/9
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesk...
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Bromo and Juliet
1925
Big Red Riding Hood
6.5/2
Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so...
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Big Red Riding Hood
1920
His Royal Slyness
6.021/24
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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His Royal Slyness
1923
Safety Last!
7.715/577
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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Safety Last!
1914
The Eagle's Mate
5/1
A young girl, Anemone, who lives with her Aunt is abducted by a crude family of Virginia mountain moonshiners. A fight between two of the young male r...
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The Eagle's Mate
1918
Bride and Gloom
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Bride and Gloom
1923
Tight Shoes
9/1
The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of s...
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Tight Shoes
1923
It's a Joy!
7/0
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
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It's a Joy!
1920
Fickle Women
7/1
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Fickle Women
1925
Should Sailors Marry?
5.833/9
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Should Sailors Marry?
1925
The Wages of Tin
8/1
aka Billy, the Ford Buster
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The Wages of Tin
1920
A Bashful Bigamist
5.5/2
A wife plots to keep her husband at home.
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A Bashful Bigamist
1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
5.8/5
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
Stolen Goods
7/2
A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
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Stolen Goods
1917
Tom Sawyer
5/8
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks...
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Tom Sawyer
1925
Laughing Ladies
8/1
Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his off...
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Laughing Ladies
1924
All Wet
5.833/6
Charley Chase has car trouble.
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All Wet
2024
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
10/1
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts o...
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
1926
Long Fliv the King
6.333/6
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. Sh...
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Long Fliv the King
1922
Impulse
9/1
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Impulse
1925
Unfriendly Enemies
6.5/2
Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land,...
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Unfriendly Enemies
1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
8/2
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring w...
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
1918
A Petticoat Pilot
0/0
When the third partner in their small Cape Cod trading business dies, Shad Gould and Zoeth Hamilton adopt his little daughter Mary-'Gusta. After sever...
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