Claude Gillingwater

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1870-08-01 (69 years old)

Deathday

1939-11-02

Place of Birth

Louisiana, Missouri, USA

Claude Gillingwater

Biography

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...

Acting

1937

Conquest

as Stephan

1926

That's My Baby

as John Raynor

1938

Just Around the Corner

as Samuel G. Henshaw

1922

Fools First

as Denton Drew

1935

1938

There Goes My Heart

as Cyrus W. Butterfield

1921

My Boy

as Captain Bill

1929

Stark Mad

as James Rutherford - Expedition Leader

1936

1934

Green Eyes

as Steven Kester

1933

I Loved a Woman

as Banker (uncredited)

1931

Illicit

as Richard Ives Sr.

1929

The Great Divide

as Winthrop Amesbury

1935

Mississippi

as General Rumford

1929

So Long Letty

as Uncle Claude Davis

1933

Before Midnight

as John Fry

1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Earl of Dorincourt

1934

1933

Back Page

as Sam Webster

1936

Ticket to Paradise

as Robert Forbes

1931

Gold Dust Gertie

as John Aberdeen Arnold

1925

Winds of Chance

as Tom Linton

1930

Dumb-bells in Ermine

as Uncle Roger

1930

1931

1932

Running Hollywood

as Claude Gillingwater

1932

Tess of the Storm Country

as Frederick Garfield Sr

1931

Kiss Me Again

as Count de St. Cyr

1924

Daddies

as James Crockett

1935

Calm Yourself

as Col. Allenby

1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

as Judge Griswold

1922

Remembrance

as John P. Grout

1923

The Christian

as Lord Storm

1933

Skyway

as John Beaumont

1925

A Thief in Paradise

as Noel Jardine

1936

1923

Three Wise Fools

as Theodore Findley

1924

How to Educate a Wife

as Henry Bancks

1934

Strange Wives

as Guggins

1923

Souls for Sale

as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)

1922

1934

The Show-Off

as J.B. Preston

1934

City Limits

as Tom Oliver

1939

Cafe Society

as Old Christopher West

1936

Florida Special

as Simeon Stafford

1938

A Yank at Oxford

as Ben Dalton

1926

45 Minutes from Hollywood

as Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)

1929

Mexicali Rose

as (uncredited)

1931

Compromised

as John Brock

1935

The Woman in Red

as Grandpa Wyatt

1936

Counterfeit

as Tom Perkins

1927

Husbands for Rent

as Sir Reginald Knight

1927

Barbed Wire

as Jean Moreau

1934

Unknown Blonde

as Papa Van Brunt, Sr.

1937

Top of the Town

as William Borden

1923

Tiger Rose

as Hector McCollins

1925

Seven Sinners

as Pious Joe McDowell

1927

Naughty But Nice

as Judge J. R. Altewood

1925

We Moderns

as Sir Robert Sundale

1928

Women They Talk About

as Grandfather Mervin

1929

Stolen Kisses

as H.A. Lambert Sr.

1929

Glad Rag Doll

as Sam Underlane

1927

The Gorilla

as Cyrus Townsend

1933

1934

You Can't Buy Everything

as Asa Cabot - Banker

1923

Crinoline and Romance

as Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh

1928

Oh Kay!

as Judge Appleton

1931

The Conquering Horde

as Jim Nabours

1936

Wives Never Know

as Mr. Gossamer

1923

A Chapter in Her Life

as Mr. Everingham

1926

1924

Madonna of the Streets

as Lord Patrington

1925

1927

Fast and Furious

as Smithfield

1923

Dulcy

as Mr. Forbes

1935

A Tale of Two Cities

as Jarvis Lorry

1936

Can This Be Dixie?

as Col. Robert Peachtree

1924

Idle Tongues

as Judge Daniel Webster Copeland

1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

as Michael O'Connor

1925

Wages for Wives

as Jim Bailey

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Alice Adams

as Virgil Adams

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