Claude Gillingwater

Claude Gillingwater
Born	August 2, 1870(1870-08-02) Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Died	November 1, 1939(1939-11-01) (aged 69) Beverly Hills, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1918 – 1939

Claude Benton Gillingwater (2 August 1870 – 1 November 1939) was an American stage and screen actor.^[1] He first appeared on the stage then in 92 films between 1918 and 1939.

Gillingwater was born in Louisiana, Missouri. Though he studied law, preferring not to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, he became a traveller for a wholesale firm, selling vinegar. While thus engaged he seized the opportunity of filling a vacancy in a small theatrical company with David Belasco. Eight years later, Mary Pickford saw him acting and secured him for her picture, Little Lord Fauntleroy which started off his film career.

Gillingwater was in poor health since being injured in a fall in 1936.^[1] His wife died of a heart attack in 1937.^[1] In November 1939, Gillingwater died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest at his home in Beverly Hills, California.^[1] His son, Claude Gillingwater, Jr., was also an actor.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Three Wise Fools (1923)
• We Moderns (1925)
• 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
• Barbed Wire (1927)
• Gold Dust Gertie (1931)
• City Limits (1934)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
• Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
• The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
• A Thief in Paradise (1936)
• Conquest (1937)
• A Yank at Oxford (1938)
• There Goes My Heart (1938)
• Just Around the Corner (1938)
• Little Miss Broadway (1938)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Gillingwater's Death Shocks Film Community". Spokane Daily Chronicle. AP: p. 17. November 2, 1939. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UupXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3446%2C644517. Retrieved September 11, 2011. 

External links

• Claude Gillingwater at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Gillingwater, Claude
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	2 August 1870
Place of birth	Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Date of death	1 November 1939
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, USA