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