Claude Gillingwater
Acting
Born August 1, 1870 — Died November 2, 1939
From Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Also known as Claude Benton Gillingwater, Claude Gillingwater Sr.
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 seemi...
Filmography
Cafe Society
Old Christopher West
19397.5
Just Around the Corner
Samuel G. Henshaw
19385.8
There Goes My Heart
Cyrus W. Butterfield
19387.3
Little Miss Broadway
Judge
19386.5
A Yank at Oxford
Ben Dalton
19386.7
Conquest
Stephan
19376.6
Top of the Town
William Borden
19376.0
Can This Be Dixie?
Col. Robert Peachtree
19367.0
Wives Never Know
Mr. Gossamer
19369.0
Poor Little Rich Girl
Simon Peck
19366.6
Ticket to Paradise
Robert Forbes
19367.5
Counterfeit
Tom Perkins
19366.3
Florida Special
Simeon Stafford
19367.0
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Colonel Dyer
19366.9
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry
19356.9
Together We Live
Dick
19357.0
Calm Yourself
Col. Allenby
19356.0
Baby Face Harrington
Colton
19355.4
Mississippi
General Rumford
19356.8
The Woman in Red
Grandpa Wyatt
19356.0
Strange Wives
Guggins
19347.0
The Captain Hates the Sea
Judge Griswold
19346.4
Green Eyes
Steven Kester
19345.8
In Love with Life
Morley
19346.0
Unknown Blonde
Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
19343.3
City Limits
Tom Oliver
19345.5
The Show-Off
J.B. Preston
19346.3
You Can't Buy Everything
Asa Cabot - Banker
19348.0
Before Midnight
John Fry
19334.6
Back Page
Sam Webster
19337.0
I Loved a Woman
Banker (uncredited)
19334.8
Skyway
John Beaumont
19335.8
The Avenger
Witt
19338.0
Ann Carver's Profession
Bingham
19337.0
Tess of the Storm Country
Frederick Garfield Sr
19327.0
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Running Hollywood
Claude Gillingwater
19329.0
The Wide Open Spaces
Judge
19317.0
Compromised
John Brock
19314.0
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
19317.0
Gold Dust Gertie
John Aberdeen Arnold
19316.0
Daddy Long Legs
Riggs
19314.8
The Conquering Horde
Jim Nabours
19317.0
Illicit
Richard Ives Sr.
19315.7
Kiss Me Again
Count de St. Cyr
19318.0
The Flirting Widow
Faraday
19305.7
Dumb-bells in Ermine
Uncle Roger
19305.7
Mexicali Rose
(uncredited)
19295.6
So Long Letty
Uncle Claude Davis
19296.3
The Great Divide
Winthrop Amesbury
19295.3
Smiling Irish Eyes
Michael O'Connor
19299.0
Glad Rag Doll
Sam Underlane
19299.0
Stolen Kisses
H.A. Lambert Sr.
19296.3
Stark Mad
James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
19295.5
Oh Kay!
Judge Appleton
19287.0
Women They Talk About
Grandfather Mervin
19287.0
Husbands for Rent
Sir Reginald Knight
192710.0
The Gorilla
Cyrus Townsend
192710.0
Barbed Wire
Jean Moreau
19276.8
Naughty But Nice
Judge J. R. Altewood
19279.0
Fast and Furious
Smithfield
19274.5
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
19265.3
For Wives Only
Professor von Waldstein
192610.0
Into Her Kingdom
Ivan
19269.0
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That's My Baby
John Raynor
19269.0
Wages for Wives
Jim Bailey
19257.0
We Moderns
Sir Robert Sundale
192510.0
Seven Sinners
Pious Joe McDowell
19256.5
Winds of Chance
Tom Linton
19256.5
A Thief in Paradise
Noel Jardine
19256.5
Cheaper to Marry
Riddle
19257.0
Idle Tongues
Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
19249.0
Madonna of the Streets
Lord Patrington
19249.0
How to Educate a Wife
Henry Bancks
19249.0
Daddies
James Crockett
19246.0
Tiger Rose
Hector McCollins
19235.4
A Chapter in Her Life
Mr. Everingham
19236.5
Dulcy
Mr. Forbes
19237.0
Three Wise Fools
Theodore Findley
192310.0
Souls for Sale
Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
19236.3
Alice Adams
Virgil Adams
19239.0
Crinoline and Romance
Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
19237.0
The Christian
Lord Storm
192310.0
The Strangers' Banquet
Uncle Sam
192210.0
Remembrance
John P. Grout
19229.0
The Dust Flower
19228.0
Fools First
Denton Drew
19228.0
My Boy
Captain Bill
19216.1
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Earl of Dorincourt
19217.0
Wild Primrose
Standish
19187.0