Claude Gillingwater
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...
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...
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Cast Credits
Cafe Society
as Old Christopher West
Just Around the Corner
as Samuel G. Henshaw
There Goes My Heart
as Cyrus W. Butterfield
Little Miss Broadway
as Judge
A Yank at Oxford
as Ben Dalton
Conquest
as Stephan
Top of the Town
as William Borden
Can This Be Dixie?
as Col. Robert Peachtree
Wives Never Know
as Mr. Gossamer
Poor Little Rich Girl
as Simon Peck
Ticket to Paradise
as Robert Forbes
Counterfeit
as Tom Perkins
Florida Special
as Simeon Stafford
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Colonel Dyer
A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry
Together We Live
as Dick
Calm Yourself
as Col. Allenby
Baby Face Harrington
as Colton
Mississippi
as General Rumford
The Woman in Red
as Grandpa Wyatt
Strange Wives
as Guggins
The Captain Hates the Sea
as Judge Griswold
Green Eyes
as Steven Kester
In Love with Life
as Morley
Unknown Blonde
as Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
City Limits
as Tom Oliver
The Show-Off
as J.B. Preston
You Can't Buy Everything
as Asa Cabot - Banker
Before Midnight
as John Fry
Back Page
as Sam Webster