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Claude Gillingwater

Claude Gillingwater

Tall, balding character actor in US films from 1921 until the year he died, usually portraying obstinate or irascible types.

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Movies Starring Claude Gillingwater (44)

Cafe Society (1939)

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column. ...

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Just Around the Corner (1938)

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones. ...

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There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...

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Little Miss Broadway (1938)

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. ...

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A Yank at Oxford (1938)

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister. ...

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Conquest (1937)

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence. ...

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Top of the Town (1937)

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: ...

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Can This Be Dixie? (1936)

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation. ...

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Wives Never Know (1936)

The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death". ...

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Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan ...

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Ticket to Paradise (1936)

A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia. ...

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Counterfeit (1936)

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring. ...

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Florida Special (1936)

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels. ...

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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark ...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met. ...

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Together We Live (1935)

A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America. ...

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Calm Yourself (1935)

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations. ...

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Baby Face Harrington (1935)

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2. ...

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Mississippi (1935)

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally ki ...

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The Woman in Red (1935)

A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves. ...

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Strange Wives (1934)

When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family. ...

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The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen ...

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Green Eyes (1934)

The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder. ...

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In Love with Life (1934)

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no inter ...

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Unknown Blonde (1934)

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter. ...

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City Limits (1934)

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were pos ...

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The Show-Off (1934)

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again. ...

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You Can't Buy Everything (1934)

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her. ...

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Before Midnight (1933)

A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death. ...

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Back Page (1933)

A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California. ...

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

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Skyway (1933)

A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president. ...

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The Avenger (1933)

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison. ...

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Ann Carver's Profession (1933)

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career. ...

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Tess of the Storm Country (1932)

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the proper ...

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Running Hollywood (1932)

Running Hollywood is a comedy short. ...

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The Wide Open Spaces (1931)

A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood. ...

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Compromised (1931)

Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although i ...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie' (1931)

Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches. ...

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Gold Dust Gertie (1931)

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony. ...

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Daddy Long Legs (1931)

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen fo ...

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The Conquering Horde (1931)

Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked s ...

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Illicit (1931)

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married. ...

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Kiss Me Again (1931)

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star. ...

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