Claude Gillingwater

Acting

Claude Gillingwater

Born 1870-08-01 Louisiana, Missouri, USA 89 films

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 th…

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Filmography

89 films
Cafe Society poster

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to ge…

Cafe Society

★ 7.5 1939

Conquest poster

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urgin…

Conquest

★ 6.6 1937