Birthday
1870/08/01
Day of death
1939/11/02 (69 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Also know as
Claude Benton Gillingwater, Claude Gillingwater Sr.
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...Read more
(1937) Conquest
as Stephan
(1926) That's My Baby
as John Raynor
(1938) Just Around the Corner
as Samuel G. Henshaw
(1922) Fools First
as Denton Drew
(1935) Together We Live
as Dick
(1938) There Goes My Heart
as Cyrus W. Butterfield
(1921) My Boy
as Captain Bill
(1929) Stark Mad
as James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
(1936) The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Colonel Dyer
(1934) Green Eyes
as Steven Kester
(1933) I Loved a Woman
as Banker (uncredited)
(1931) Illicit
as Richard Ives Sr.
(1929) The Great Divide
as Winthrop Amesbury
(1935) Mississippi
as General Rumford
(1929) So Long Letty
as Uncle Claude Davis
(1933) Before Midnight
as John Fry
(1921) Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Earl of Dorincourt
(1934) In Love with Life
as Morley
(1933) Back Page
as Sam Webster
(1936) Ticket to Paradise
as Robert Forbes
(1931) Gold Dust Gertie
as John Aberdeen Arnold
(1933) Ann Carver's Profession
as Judge Bingham
(1925) Winds of Chance
as Tom Linton
(1930) Dumb-bells in Ermine
as Uncle Roger
(1930) The Flirting Widow
as Faraday
(1931) Daddy Long Legs
as Riggs
(1932) Running Hollywood
as Claude Gillingwater
(1938) Little Miss Broadway
as Judge
(1932) Tess of the Storm Country
as Frederick Garfield Sr
(1931) Kiss Me Again
as Count de St. Cyr
(1924) Daddies
as James Crockett
(1935) Calm Yourself
as Col. Allenby
(1931) The Wide Open Spaces
as Judge
(1935) Baby Face Harrington
as Colton
(1934) The Captain Hates the Sea
as Judge Griswold
(1922) Remembrance
as John P. Grout
(1923) The Christian
as Lord Storm
(1933) Skyway
as John Beaumont
(1925) A Thief in Paradise
as Noel Jardine
(1936) Poor Little Rich Girl
as Simon Peck
(1923) Three Wise Fools
as Theodore Findley
(1924) How to Educate a Wife
as Henry Bancks
(1934) Strange Wives
as Guggins
(1923) Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
(1922) The Strangers' Banquet
as Uncle Sam
(1934) The Show-Off
as J.B. Preston
(1934) City Limits
as Tom Oliver
(1939) Cafe Society
as Old Christopher West
(1936) Florida Special
as Simeon Stafford
(1938) A Yank at Oxford
as Ben Dalton
(1926) 45 Minutes from Hollywood
as Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
(1929) Mexicali Rose
as (uncredited)
(1931) Compromised
as John Brock
(1935) The Woman in Red
as Grandpa Wyatt
(1936) Counterfeit
as Tom Perkins
(1927) Husbands for Rent
as Sir Reginald Knight
(1927) Barbed Wire
as Jean Moreau
(1934) Unknown Blonde
as Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
(1937) Top of the Town
as William Borden
(1923) Tiger Rose
as Hector McCollins
(1925) Seven Sinners
as Pious Joe McDowell
(1927) Naughty But Nice
as Judge J. R. Altewood
(1925) We Moderns
as Sir Robert Sundale
(1928) Women They Talk About
as Grandfather Mervin
(1929) Stolen Kisses
as H.A. Lambert Sr.
(1929) Glad Rag Doll
as Sam Underlane
(1927) The Gorilla
as Cyrus Townsend
(1933) The Avenger
as Witt
(1934) You Can't Buy Everything
as Asa Cabot - Banker
(1923) Crinoline and Romance
as Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
(1931) How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
as ---
(1928) Oh Kay!
as Judge Appleton
(1931) The Conquering Horde
as Jim Nabours
(1936) Wives Never Know
as Mr. Gossamer
(1923) A Chapter in Her Life
as Mr. Everingham
(1926) Into Her Kingdom
as Ivan
(1924) Madonna of the Streets
as Lord Patrington
(1925) Cheaper to Marry
as Riddle
(1927) Fast and Furious
as Smithfield
(1923) Dulcy
as Mr. Forbes
(1935) A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry
(1936) Can This Be Dixie?
as Col. Robert Peachtree
(1924) Idle Tongues
as Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
(1929) Smiling Irish Eyes
as Michael O'Connor
(1925) Wages for Wives
as Jim Bailey
Alice Adams
as Virgil Adams