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person_profile-Claude Gillingwater

Claude Gillingwater Died at age: 69

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Aug 01, 1870

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 02, 1939

Biography of

Claude Gillingwater

    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 screen image he perfected belied a softer, gentler off-screen demeanor for he was a kind and sympathetic gent and devoted husband to wife Carlyn Stiletz (or Stellith). Their only child, Claude Gillingwater Jr., briefly became an actor himself. Sadly, Gillingwater Sr.'s thriving character career ended on a grim and tragic note in 1939. A serious accident on the movie set of the picture Florida Special (1936) (he fell from a platform and injured his back) damaged his health and threatened his career, and the death of his long-time wife Carlyn left him irrevocably depressed. Fearing the possibility of becoming an invalid and wishing not to become a serious burden to anyone, the 69-year-old actor committed suicide at his Beverly Hills home with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Gillingwater left a fine Hollywood legacy and the fun of some of his old films is watching his vinegar turn to sugar.

    Date of Birth 2 August 1870, Louisiana, Missouri

    Date of Death 2 November 1939, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California  (suicide)

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Filmography of

Claude Gillingwater

Found 81 Movies in total

Cafe Society

Old Christopher West ( Actor )

... 1939

Just Around the Corner

Samuel G. Henshaw ( Actor )

... 1938

There Goes My Heart

Cyrus W. Butterfield ( Actor )

... 1938

Little Miss Broadway

Judge ( Actor )

... 1938

A Yank at Oxford

Ben Dalton ( Actor )

... 1938

Conquest

Stephan ( Actor )

... 1937

Top of the Town

William Borden ( Actor )

... 1937

Can This Be Dixie?

Col. Robert Peachtree ( Actor )

... 1936

Wives Never Know

Mr. Gossamer ( Actor )

... 1936

Poor Little Rich Girl

Simon Peck ( Actor )

... 1936

Ticket to Paradise

Robert Forbes ( Actor )

... 1936

Counterfeit

Tom Perkins ( Actor )

... 1936

Florida Special

Simeon Stafford ( Actor )

... 1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Colonel Dyer ( Actor )

... 1936

A Tale of Two Cities

Jarvis Lorry ( Actor )

... 1935

Together We Live

Dick ( Actor )

... 1935

Calm Yourself

Col. Allenby ( Actor )

... 1935

Baby Face Harrington

Colton ( Actor )

... 1935

Mississippi

Gen. Rumford ( Actor )

... 1935

The Woman in Red

Grandpa Wyatt ( Actor )

... 1935

Strange Wives

Guggins ( Actor )

... 1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

Judge Griswold ( Actor )

... 1934

Green Eyes

Steven Kester ( Actor )

... 1934

In Love with Life

Morley ( Actor )

... 1934

Unknown Blonde

Papa Van Brunt, Sr. ( Actor )

... 1934

City Limits

Tom Oliver ( Actor )

... 1934

The Show-Off

J.B. Preston ( Actor )

... 1934

You Can't Buy Everything

Asa Cabot - Banker ( Actor )

... 1934

Before Midnight

John Fry ( Actor )

... 1933

Back Page

Sam Webster ( Actor )

... 1933

I Loved a Woman

Banker (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Skyway

John Beaumont ( Actor )

... 1933

The Avenger

Witt ( Actor )

... 1933

Ann Carver's Profession

Judge Bingham ( Actor )

... 1933

Tess of the Storm Country

Frederick Garfield Sr ( Actor )

... 1932

Compromised

John Brock ( Actor )

... 1931

Gold Dust Gertie

John Aberdeen Arnold ( Actor )

... 1931

Daddy Long Legs

Riggs ( Actor )

... 1931

The Conquering Horde

Jim Nabours ( Actor )

... 1931

Illicit

Richard Ives Sr. ( Actor )

... 1931

Kiss Me Again

Count de St. Cyr ( Actor )

... 1931

The Flirting Widow

Faraday ( Actor )

... 1930

Dumb-bells in Ermine

Uncle Roger ( Actor )

... 1930

Mexicali Rose

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

So Long Letty

Uncle Claude Davis ( Actor )

... 1929

The Great Divide

Winthrop Amesbury ( Actor )

... 1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

Michael O'Connor ( Actor )

... 1929

Glad Rag Doll

Sam Underlane ( Actor )

... 1929

Stolen Kisses

H.A. Lambert Sr. ( Actor )

... 1929

Stark Mad

James Rutherford - Expedition Leader ( Actor )

... 1929

Oh Kay!

Judge Appleton ( Actor )

... 1928

Women They Talk About

Grandfather Mervin ( Actor )

... 1928

Husbands for Rent

Sir Reginald Knight ( Actor )

... 1927

The Gorilla

Cyrus Townsend ( Actor )

... 1927

Barbed Wire

Jean Moreau ( Actor )

... 1927

Naughty But Nice

Judge J. R. Altewood ( Actor )

... 1927

Fast and Furious

Smithfield ( Actor )

... 1927

Wages for Wives

Jim Bailey ( Actor )

... 1925

We Moderns

Sir Robert Sundale ( Actor )

... 1925

Seven Sinners

Pious Joe McDowell ( Actor )

... 1925

Winds of Chance

Tom Linton ( Actor )

... 1925

A Thief in Paradise

Noel Jardine ( Actor )

... 1925

Cheaper to Marry

Riddle ( Actor )

... 1925

Idle Tongues

Judge Daniel Webster Copeland ( Actor )

... 1924

Madonna of the Streets

Lord Patrington ( Actor )

... 1924

How to Educate a Wife

Henry Bancks ( Actor )

... 1924

Daddies

James Crockett ( Actor )

... 1924

Tiger Rose

Hector McCollins ( Actor )

... 1923

A Chapter in Her Life

Mr. Everingham ( Actor )

... 1923

Dulcy

Mr. Forbes ( Actor )

... 1923

Three Wise Fools

Theodore Findley ( Actor )

... 1923

Souls for Sale

Himself - Celebrity Actor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1923

Crinoline and Romance

Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh ( Actor )

... 1923

The Christian

Lord Storm ( Actor )

... 1923

The Strangers' Banquet

Uncle Sam ( Actor )

... 1922

Remembrance

John P. Grout ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1922

Fools First

Denton Drew ( Actor )

... 1922

My Boy

Captain Bill ( Actor )

... 1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Earl of Dorincourt ( Actor )

... 1921

Alice Adams

Virgil Adams ( Actor )

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