Cast & creator
Helen Gilmore
Best known for Safety Last!, Unfriendly Enemies, It's a Joy!
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).
Also known as: Antoinette Field, Helen Field Gilmore, Helen Gillmore, Antoinette A. Field
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1914–2024 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (65)
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Safety Last!
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
1923
Unfriendly Enemies
Laughing Woman (uncredited)
1925It's a Joy!
His Mother-in-Law
1923
Good Men and True
Mrs. Fite
1922
Captain Kidd's Kids
The Girl's mother
1919
Two Scrambled
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
1918
Impulse
Mrs. Cameron
1922
Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926
What's the World Coming To?
A Neighbor
1926
His Wooden Wedding
(uncredited)
1925
Just Neighbors
Old Woman with Packages (uncredited)
1919
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Sittin' Pretty
1924
It's a Wild Life
The girl's mother
1918
Long Fliv the King
Helga's Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
1926
Bromo and Juliet
Bit Role (uncredited)
1926Tight Shoes
1923
Bumping Into Broadway
'Bearcat' the Landlady
1919
Follow the Crowd
1918
The Cowboy Sheik
The cook
1924
Big Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood
1925
Never Weaken
(uncredited)
1921
Nothing But Trouble
1918
Bungalow Boobs
The Neighbor Wife
1924
Bride and Gloom
1918
That's Him
1918
A Petticoat Pilot
Mrs. Hobbs
1918
Say It with Babies
1926
The Eagle's Mate
Hagar Morne (as Helen Gillmore)
1914
Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas
1917
The Wages of Tin
Meg's Mother
1925
Just a Minute
Caroline - the Mayor's Wife
1924
Take a Chance
Landlady
1918
Chasing the Chaser
The neighbor
1925
A Bashful Bigamist
Uncle Oswald's Wife
1920
An Ozark Romance
1918
Hey There
1918
Should Sailors Marry?
Train Passenger
1925
Shivering Shakespeare
Woman in audience (uncredited)
1930
The Blazing Trail
Village Talking Machine
1921
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
The City Slicker
Girl's Mother
1918
Madame Mystery
1926
Pipe the Whiskers
1918
Laughing Ladies
The Dentist's Assistant
1925
All Wet
Boarding house landlady (uncredited)
1924
His Royal Slyness
Queen Razzamatazz
1920
Moonlight and Noses
1925
Postage Due
1924
Post No Bills
1923
Down Home
Townswoman
1920
April Fool
The Editor's Wife
1924
Huck and Tom
Widow Douglas
1918
The 'Fraidy Cat
Lem Tucker's Mother (uncredited)
1924
Stolen Goods
Shopper (uncredited)
1924
The Haunted Honeymoon
1925Never Again
1915Sherlock Sleuth
Haughty Guest's Wife
1925
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Todd
1927
The Whole Truth
The wife
1923
Short Kilts
Mrs. McHungry
1924
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Old lady in park
1918Fickle Women
Mrs. Cullison
1920
Dangerous Paths
Deborah Hammond
1921