
Acting
Born January 4, 1862 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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
2024

Shivering Shakespeare
1930

Sensation Seekers
1927

Bromo and Juliet
1926

Long Fliv the King
1926

Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926

Say It with Babies
1926

Madame Mystery
1926

What's the World Coming To?
1926

His Wooden Wedding
1925

Should Sailors Marry?
1925

Moonlight and Noses
1925

Unfriendly Enemies
1925
Sherlock Sleuth
1925

Chasing the Chaser
1925

Big Red Riding Hood
1925

The Haunted Honeymoon
1925

The Wages of Tin
1925

Laughing Ladies
1925

Bungalow Boobs
1924

Sittin' Pretty
1924

Short Kilts
1924

Stolen Goods
1924

April Fool
1924

The 'Fraidy Cat
1924

Zeb vs. Paprika
1924

Postage Due
1924
The Cowboy Sheik
1924

Just a Minute
1924

All Wet
1924
It's a Joy!
1923

The Whole Truth
1923

Post No Bills
1923

Safety Last!
1923
Tight Shoes
1923

Good Men and True
1922

Impulse
1922

Never Weaken
1921

Dangerous Paths
1921

The Blazing Trail
1921

Down Home
1920
Fickle Women
1920

A Bashful Bigamist
1920

His Royal Slyness
1920

Captain Kidd's Kids
1919

Bumping Into Broadway
1919

Just Neighbors
1919

Take a Chance
1918

Nothing But Trouble
1918

Bees in His Bonnet
1918

Two Scrambled
1918

Bride and Gloom
1918

That's Him
1918

An Ozark Romance
1918

Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918

The City Slicker
1918

Hey There
1918

It's a Wild Life
1918

Pipe the Whiskers
1918

Follow the Crowd
1918

Huck and Tom
1918

Tom Sawyer
1917
Never Again
1915

The Eagle's Mate
1914