Theatre Register

Claude Gillingwater

Shows · Claude Gillingwater

Actor 1870–1939 On stage 18991918

Claude Benton Gillingwater (August 2, 1870 – November 1, 1939) was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and Conquest (1937). He appeared in several films starring Shirley Temple, beginning with Poor Little Rich Girl (1936).

On stage 12 productions, 19 years

1899 A Young Wife Haverlys 14th Street Theatre · Original 54 perf.
1900 Madame Butterfly Herald Square Theatre · Original 24 perf.
1900 Naughty Anthony Herald Square Theatre · Original 90 perf.
1901 Du Barry Criterion Theatre · Original 165 perf.
1905 Adrea Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Carl Marwig 123 perf.
1905 Mlle. Modiste Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Fred Latham 202 perf.
1906 Mlle. Modiste Knickerbocker Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Fred G. Latham 22 perf.
1907 Mlle. Modiste Knickerbocker Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Fred G. Latham 21 perf.
1910 The Girl in the Train Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Al Holbrook 40 perf.
1910 The Old Town Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Ben Teal 166 perf.
1917 The Rescuing Angel Hudson Theatre · Original 32 perf.
1918 Three Wise Fools Criterion Theatre · Original 316 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

William Pruette 3 productions
R W Hunt 3 productions
Leo Mars 3 productions
Josephine Bartlett 3 productions
Howard Chambers 3 productions
George Schraeder 3 productions
Fritzi Scheff 3 productions
Blanche Morrison 3 productions
Bertha Holly 3 productions
Ada Meade 3 productions
Walter Percival 2 productions
Nancy Poole 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature1 passages

  • Cast : Fritzi Scheff, Walter Percival, William Pruette, Claude Gillingwater, Josephine Bartlettebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.