Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1870-08-01 (69 years old)
Deathday
1939-11-02
Place of Birth
Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Also known As
Claude Benton Gillingwater
Claude Gillingwater Sr.
Tall, balding character actor in US films from 1921 until the year he died, usually portraying obstinate or irascible types. A man so disagreeable on celluloid, Claude Gillingwater's characters seemed to subsist on a steady diet of persimmons. Fondly recalled as the cranky old skinflint whose seemingly cold heart could only be warmed by the actions of a cute little tyke, the tall and rangy Gillingwater invariably played much older than he was. He, with the omnipresent bushy brows, crop of silver hair and perpetually sour puss, had a much more versatile career than perhaps realized -- on both stage and in film. Most assuredly, this caustic sc...
1937
as Stephan
1926
as John Raynor
1938
as Samuel G. Henshaw
1922
as Denton Drew
1935
as Dick
1938
as Cyrus W. Butterfield
1921
as Captain Bill
1929
as James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
1936
as Colonel Dyer
1934
as Steven Kester
1933
as Banker (uncredited)
1931
as Richard Ives Sr.
1929
as Winthrop Amesbury
1935
as General Rumford
1929
as Uncle Claude Davis
1933
as John Fry
1921
as Earl of Dorincourt
1934
as Morley
1933
as Sam Webster
1936
as Robert Forbes
1931
as John Aberdeen Arnold
1933
as Bingham
1925
as Tom Linton
1930
as Uncle Roger
1930
as Faraday
1931
as Riggs
1932
as Claude Gillingwater
1938
as Judge
1932
as Frederick Garfield Sr
1931
as Count de St. Cyr
1924
as James Crockett
1935
as Col. Allenby
1931
as Judge
1935
as Colton
1934
as Judge Griswold
1922
as John P. Grout
1923
as Lord Storm
1933
as John Beaumont
1925
as Noel Jardine
1936
as Simon Peck
1923
as Theodore Findley
1924
as Henry Bancks
1934
as Guggins
1923
as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
1922
as Uncle Sam
1934
as J.B. Preston
1934
as Tom Oliver
1939
as Old Christopher West
1936
as Simeon Stafford
1938
as Ben Dalton
1926
as Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
1929
as (uncredited)
1931
as John Brock
1935
as Grandpa Wyatt
1936
as Tom Perkins
1927
as Sir Reginald Knight
1927
as Jean Moreau
1934
as Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
1937
as William Borden
1923
as Hector McCollins
1925
as Pious Joe McDowell
1927
as Judge J. R. Altewood
1925
as Sir Robert Sundale
1928
as Grandfather Mervin
1929
as H.A. Lambert Sr.
1929
as Sam Underlane
1927
as Cyrus Townsend
1933
as Witt
1934
as Asa Cabot - Banker
1923
as Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
1928
as Judge Appleton
1931
as Jim Nabours
1936
as Mr. Gossamer
1923
as Mr. Everingham
1926
as Ivan
1924
as Lord Patrington
1925
as Riddle
1927
as Smithfield
1923
as Mr. Forbes
1935
as Jarvis Lorry
1936
as Col. Robert Peachtree
1924
as Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
1929
as Michael O'Connor
1925
as Jim Bailey
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as Virgil Adams
1922
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