Claude Gillingwater
Acting
Born: 1870-08-01 · Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Died: 1939-11-02
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
🎬 Movies (30)
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
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Colonel Dyer
Ticket to Paradise
1936
Robert Forbes
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936
Simon Peck
Florida Special
1936
Simeon Stafford
Counterfeit
1936
Tom Perkins
Wives Never Know
1936
Mr. Gossamer
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Col. Robert Peachtree
Together We Live
1935
Dick
Mississippi
1935
General Rumford
Calm Yourself
1935
Col. Allenby
Baby Face Harrington
1935
Colton
The Woman in Red
1935
Grandpa Wyatt
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
Jarvis Lorry
Green Eyes
1934
Steven Kester
In Love with Life
1934
Morley
The Captain Hates the Sea
1934
Judge Griswold
Strange Wives
1934
Guggins
The Show-Off
1934
J.B. Preston
City Limits
1934
Tom Oliver
Unknown Blonde
1934
Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
Asa Cabot - Banker
I Loved a Woman
1933
Banker (uncredited)
Before Midnight
1933
John Fry