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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Filme (89)
Cafe Society
1939 · Old Christopher West
Just Around the Corner
1938 · Samuel G. Henshaw
There Goes My Heart
1938 · Cyrus W. Butterfield
Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Judge
A Yank at Oxford
1938 · Ben Dalton
Conquest
1937 · Stephan
Top of the Town
1937 · William Borden
Can This Be Dixie?
1936 · Col. Robert Peachtree
Wives Never Know
1936 · Mr. Gossamer
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 · Simon Peck
Ticket to Paradise
1936 · Robert Forbes
Counterfeit
1936 · Tom Perkins
Florida Special
1936 · Simeon Stafford
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · Colonel Dyer
A Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Jarvis Lorry
Together We Live
1935 · Dick
Calm Yourself
1935 · Col. Allenby
Baby Face Harrington
1935 · Colton
Mississippi
1935 · General Rumford
The Woman in Red
1935 · Grandpa Wyatt
Strange Wives
1934 · Guggins
The Captain Hates the Sea
1934 · Judge Griswold
Green Eyes
1934 · Steven Kester
In Love with Life
1934 · Morley
Unknown Blonde
1934 · Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
City Limits
1934 · Tom Oliver
The Show-Off
1934 · J.B. Preston
You Can't Buy Everything
1934 · Asa Cabot - Banker
Before Midnight
1933 · John Fry
Back Page
1933 · Sam Webster
I Loved a Woman
1933 · Banker (uncredited)
Skyway
1933 · John Beaumont
The Avenger
1933 · Witt
Ann Carver's Profession
1933 · Bingham
Tess of the Storm Country
1932 · Frederick Garfield Sr
Running Hollywood
1932 · Claude Gillingwater
The Wide Open Spaces
1931 · Judge
Compromised
1931 · John Brock
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
1931
Gold Dust Gertie
1931 · John Aberdeen Arnold
Daddy Long Legs
1931 · Riggs
The Conquering Horde
1931 · Jim Nabours
Illicit
1931 · Richard Ives Sr.
Kiss Me Again
1931 · Count de St. Cyr
The Flirting Widow
1930 · Faraday
Dumb-bells in Ermine
1930 · Uncle Roger
Mexicali Rose
1929 · (uncredited)
So Long Letty
1929 · Uncle Claude Davis
The Great Divide
1929 · Winthrop Amesbury
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929 · Michael O'Connor
Glad Rag Doll
1929 · Sam Underlane
Stolen Kisses
1929 · H.A. Lambert Sr.
Stark Mad
1929 · James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
Oh Kay!
1928 · Judge Appleton
Women They Talk About
1928 · Grandfather Mervin
Husbands for Rent
1927 · Sir Reginald Knight
The Gorilla
1927 · Cyrus Townsend
Barbed Wire
1927 · Jean Moreau
Naughty But Nice
1927 · Judge J. R. Altewood
Fast and Furious
1927 · Smithfield
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926 · Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
For Wives Only
1926 · Professor von Waldstein
Into Her Kingdom
1926 · Ivan
That's My Baby
1926 · John Raynor
Wages for Wives
1925 · Jim Bailey
We Moderns
1925 · Sir Robert Sundale
Seven Sinners
1925 · Pious Joe McDowell
Winds of Chance
1925 · Tom Linton
A Thief in Paradise
1925 · Noel Jardine
Cheaper to Marry
1925 · Riddle
Idle Tongues
1924 · Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
Madonna of the Streets
1924 · Lord Patrington
How to Educate a Wife
1924 · Henry Bancks
Daddies
1924 · James Crockett
Tiger Rose
1923 · Hector McCollins
A Chapter in Her Life
1923 · Mr. Everingham
Dulcy
1923 · Mr. Forbes
Three Wise Fools
1923 · Theodore Findley
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
Alice Adams
1923 · Virgil Adams
Crinoline and Romance
1923 · Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
The Christian
1923 · Lord Storm
The Strangers' Banquet
1922 · Uncle Sam
Remembrance
1922 · John P. Grout
The Dust Flower
1922
Fools First
1922 · Denton Drew
My Boy
1921 · Captain Bill
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · Earl of Dorincourt
Wild Primrose
1918 · Standish
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