Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1870-08-01
- Day of Death1939-11-02 (69 years)
- Place of BirthLouisiana, Missouri, USA
- Also Known AsClaude Benton GillingwaterClaude Gillingwater Sr.
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...Read More
Acting Career
- 1939
Cafe Society
As: Old Christopher West
- 1938
Just Around the Corner
As: Samuel G. Henshaw
- 1938
There Goes My Heart
As: Cyrus W. Butterfield
- 1938
Little Miss Broadway
As: Judge
- 1938
A Yank at Oxford
As: Ben Dalton
- 1937
Conquest
As: Stephan
- 1937
Top of the Town
As: William Borden
- 1936
Can This Be Dixie?
As: Col. Robert Peachtree
1936Wives Never Know
As: Mr. Gossamer
1936Poor Little Rich Girl
As: Simon Peck
1936Ticket to Paradise
As: Robert Forbes
1936Counterfeit
As: Tom Perkins
1936Florida Special
As: Simeon Stafford
- 1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
As: Colonel Dyer
- 1935
A Tale of Two Cities
As: Jarvis Lorry
1935Together We Live
As: Dick
1935Calm Yourself
As: Col. Allenby
1935Baby Face Harrington
As: Colton
1935Mississippi
As: General Rumford
1935The Woman in Red
As: Grandpa Wyatt
1934Strange Wives
As: Guggins
1934The Captain Hates the Sea
As: Judge Griswold
1934Green Eyes
As: Steven Kester
1934In Love with Life
As: Morley
1934Unknown Blonde
As: Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
1934City Limits
As: Tom Oliver
1934The Show-Off
As: J.B. Preston
1934You Can't Buy Everything
As: Asa Cabot - Banker
1933Before Midnight
As: John Fry
1933Back Page
As: Sam Webster
1933I Loved a Woman
As: Banker (uncredited)
1933Skyway
As: John Beaumont
1933The Avenger
As: Witt
1933Ann Carver's Profession
As: Bingham
1932Tess of the Storm Country
As: Frederick Garfield Sr
1931The Wide Open Spaces
As: Judge
1931Compromised
As: John Brock
1931Gold Dust Gertie
As: John Aberdeen Arnold
1931Daddy Long Legs
As: Riggs
1931The Conquering Horde
As: Jim Nabours
- 1931
Illicit
As: Richard Ives Sr.
1931Kiss Me Again
As: Count de St. Cyr
1930The Flirting Widow
As: Faraday
1930Dumb-bells in Ermine
As: Uncle Roger
1929Mexicali Rose
As: (uncredited)
1929So Long Letty
As: Uncle Claude Davis
1929The Great Divide
As: Winthrop Amesbury
1929Smiling Irish Eyes
As: Michael O'Connor
1929Glad Rag Doll
As: Sam Underlane
1929Stolen Kisses
As: H.A. Lambert Sr.
1929Stark Mad
As: James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
1928Oh Kay!
As: Judge Appleton
1928Women They Talk About
As: Grandfather Mervin
1927Husbands for Rent
As: Sir Reginald Knight
1927The Gorilla
As: Cyrus Townsend
1927Barbed Wire
As: Jean Moreau
1927Naughty But Nice
As: Judge J. R. Altewood
1927Fast and Furious
As: Smithfield
- 1926
45 Minutes from Hollywood
As: Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
1926For Wives Only
As: Professor von Waldstein
1926Into Her Kingdom
As: Ivan
1925Wages for Wives
As: Jim Bailey
1925We Moderns
As: Sir Robert Sundale
1925Seven Sinners
As: Pious Joe McDowell
1925Winds of Chance
As: Tom Linton
1925A Thief in Paradise
As: Noel Jardine
1925Cheaper to Marry
As: Riddle
1924Idle Tongues
As: Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
1924Madonna of the Streets
As: Lord Patrington
1924How to Educate a Wife
As: Henry Bancks
1924Daddies
As: James Crockett
1923Tiger Rose
As: Hector McCollins
1923A Chapter in Her Life
As: Mr. Everingham
1923Dulcy
As: Mr. Forbes
1923Three Wise Fools
As: Theodore Findley
1923Alice Adams
As: Virgil Adams
1923Crinoline and Romance
As: Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
1923The Christian
As: Lord Storm
1922The Strangers' Banquet
As: Uncle Sam
1922Remembrance
As: John P. Grout
1922Fools First
As: Denton Drew
1921My Boy
As: Captain Bill
1921Little Lord Fauntleroy
As: Earl of Dorincourt