- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 1, 1870
- Place of Birth
- Louisiana, Missouri, USA
- Died
- November 2, 1939
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, G…
Filmography
movieCafe Society
1939 · Old Christopher West
movieJust Around the Corner
1938 · Samuel G. Henshaw
movieThere Goes My Heart
1938 · Cyrus W. Butterfield
movieLittle Miss Broadway
1938 · Judge
movieA Yank at Oxford
1938 · Ben Dalton
movieConquest
1937 · Stephan
movieTop of the Town
1937 · William Borden
movieCan This Be Dixie?
1936 · Col. Robert Peachtree
movieWives Never Know
1936 · Mr. Gossamer
moviePoor Little Rich Girl
1936 · Simon Peck
movieTicket to Paradise
1936 · Robert Forbes
movieCounterfeit
1936 · Tom Perkins
movieFlorida Special
1936 · Simeon Stafford
movieThe Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · Colonel Dyer
movieA Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Jarvis Lorry
movieTogether We Live
1935 · Dick
movieCalm Yourself
1935 · Col. Allenby
movieBaby Face Harrington
1935 · Colton
movieMississippi
1935 · General Rumford
movieThe Woman in Red
1935 · Grandpa Wyatt
movieStrange Wives
1934 · Guggins
movieThe Captain Hates the Sea
1934 · Judge Griswold
movieGreen Eyes
1934 · Steven Kester
movieIn Love with Life
1934 · Morley
movieUnknown Blonde
1934 · Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
movieCity Limits
1934 · Tom Oliver
movieThe Show-Off
1934 · J.B. Preston
movieYou Can't Buy Everything
1934 · Asa Cabot - Banker
movieBefore Midnight
1933 · John Fry
movieBack Page
1933 · Sam Webster
movieI Loved a Woman
1933 · Banker (uncredited)
movieSkyway
1933 · John Beaumont
movieThe Avenger
1933 · Witt
movieAnn Carver's Profession
1933 · Bingham
movieTess of the Storm Country
1932 · Frederick Garfield Sr
Running Hollywood
movieRunning Hollywood
1932 · Claude Gillingwater
movieThe Wide Open Spaces
1931 · Judge
movieCompromised
1931 · John Brock
movieHow I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
movieGold Dust Gertie
1931 · John Aberdeen Arnold
movieDaddy Long Legs
1931 · Riggs
movieThe Conquering Horde
1931 · Jim Nabours
movieIllicit
1931 · Richard Ives Sr.
movieKiss Me Again
1931 · Count de St. Cyr
movieThe Flirting Widow
1930 · Faraday
movieDumb-bells in Ermine
1930 · Uncle Roger
movieMexicali Rose
1929 · (uncredited)
movieSo Long Letty
1929 · Uncle Claude Davis
movieThe Great Divide
1929 · Winthrop Amesbury
movieSmiling Irish Eyes
1929 · Michael O'Connor
movieGlad Rag Doll
1929 · Sam Underlane
movieStolen Kisses
1929 · H.A. Lambert Sr.
movieStark Mad
1929 · James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
movieOh Kay!
1928 · Judge Appleton
movieWomen They Talk About
1928 · Grandfather Mervin
movieHusbands for Rent
1927 · Sir Reginald Knight
movieThe Gorilla
1927 · Cyrus Townsend
movieBarbed Wire
1927 · Jean Moreau
movieNaughty But Nice
1927 · Judge J. R. Altewood
movieFast and Furious
1927 · Smithfield
movie45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926 · Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
movieFor Wives Only
1926 · Professor von Waldstein
movieInto Her Kingdom
1926 · Ivan
That's My Baby
movieThat's My Baby
1926 · John Raynor
movieWages for Wives
1925 · Jim Bailey
movieWe Moderns
1925 · Sir Robert Sundale
movieSeven Sinners
1925 · Pious Joe McDowell
movieWinds of Chance
1925 · Tom Linton
movieA Thief in Paradise
1925 · Noel Jardine
movieCheaper to Marry
1925 · Riddle
movieIdle Tongues
1924 · Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
movieMadonna of the Streets
1924 · Lord Patrington
movieHow to Educate a Wife
1924 · Henry Bancks
movieDaddies
1924 · James Crockett
movieTiger Rose
1923 · Hector McCollins
movieA Chapter in Her Life
1923 · Mr. Everingham
movieDulcy
1923 · Mr. Forbes
movieThree Wise Fools
1923 · Theodore Findley
movieSouls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
movieAlice Adams
1923 · Virgil Adams
movieCrinoline and Romance
1923 · Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
movieThe Christian
1923 · Lord Storm
movieThe Strangers' Banquet
1922 · Uncle Sam
movieRemembrance
1922 · John P. Grout
movieThe Dust Flower
1922
movieFools First
1922 · Denton Drew
movieMy Boy
1921 · Captain Bill
movieLittle Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · Earl of Dorincourt
movieWild Primrose
1918 · Standish