J.H. Gilmour

Acting

J.H. Gilmour

Born 1857-01-01 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Acting credits

King Lear poster
4.4

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

King Lear

1916

The Reunion poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Reunion

1916

Sylvia of the Secret Service poster
9.0

During World War I, a group of German saboteurs plot to blow up an ammunition dump in New York City. A secret agent sets out to stop them.

Sylvia of the Secret Service

1917

The Streets of Illusion poster
NR

Beam opens a boarding house and many interesting characters are introduced. She spreads her optimism to their lives. Also to her blind father by telling him army stories about her brother when in actuality, he's deserted.

The Streets of Illusion

1917

Love's Conquest poster
NR

As described in a film magazine, determined that her son Francesco (Verdi) will have every advantage of a successful reign when he grows to manhood, Duchess Gismonda refuses all offers of marriage. A sudden danger to her son prompts her to offer her kingdom to the man who rescues the child. Almerio (Foote) braves the dangers of the lion's den to save the child, but because he is a slave the Duchess refuses to fulfill her vow. Gradually, she learns to love him, and after he assumes the guilt for a murder that she committed, Gismonda confesses to the crime and in the presence of her people makes Almerio her consort.

Love's Conquest

1918

Over the Hill poster
10.0

The spread of yellow journalism in a small town almost destroys the lives of several people and threatens the livelihood of the hamlet itself.

Over the Hill

1917

No artwork available
NR

1917 American silent mystery film directed by Ernest C. Warde.

Her Beloved Enemy

1917

The Magic Cup poster
9.0

Mary Malloy works as a scullery maid in a hotel. She meets reporter Bob Norton, who soon falls in love with her. When Mary learns that one of her friends is to be evicted, she pawns an old silver goblet with her family crest in order to get money to forestall the eviction. The pawnbrokers, realizing how valuable the goblet is, hatch a scheme to use Mary as a patsy while they substitute fake pearls for the real thing. Bob, however, becomes suspicious.

The Magic Cup

1921

Such a Little Queen poster
10.0

Queen Anne of Gzbfernigambia, who is betrothed to King Stephen of Hetland, flees to the United States with Baron Cosaco when a revolution breaks out in her country.

Such a Little Queen

1921

No artwork available
NR

Nell leaves the farm to start a candy store in New York, but has a troubled start until she meets Jack Monroe, a young spendthrift who helps her attract business. They fall in love, marry, and move in with Jack's father. Nell soon discovers that Jack is a drug addict. In sympathy, Jack's father offers to annul the marriage, but Nell refuses, wishing instead to commit herself to the indefinite struggle of pursuing the road to Jack's rehabilitation.

The Candy Girl

1917

The First Law poster
NR

When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.

The First Law

1918

The Wakefield Case poster
9.0

A playwright, Wakefield, Jr., turns detective when his father is killed after nearly capturing two brothers in possession of four rubies belonging to the British Museum. An investigation suggests that "the Breen girl" is responsible for Wakefield's death, and the younger Wakefield pursues her across the ocean to the United States.

The Wakefield Case

1921

The Woman and the Beast poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman and the Beast

1917

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Whispered Word

1916

A Crooked Romance poster
8.0

Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's house, Mary escapes and Syd is jailed. Mary begins working as a locksmith. When she meets the man again, will he believe she's changed?

A Crooked Romance

1917

The Yellow Ticket poster
NR

Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.

The Yellow Ticket

1918

The Return of Draw Egan poster
5.2

A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.

The Return of Draw Egan

1916

Impossible Catherine poster
7.0

The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.H. Gilmore), the father and wealthy Wall Street magnate -- it's his spoiled, headstrong daughter Catherine (Virginia Pearson). She is so willful that she has earned the name "Impossible Catherine," and her whole focus in life is to prove women's superiority over the masculine gender.

Impossible Catherine

1919

The House of Hate poster
6.6

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...

The House of Hate

1918

School Days poster
8.0

A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune. Overwhelmed by the city's hustle and bustle, and entranced by the rich and sophisticated high-society types he comes into contact with, he eventually finds himself caught up in the city's seedy underworld.

School Days

1921

The Witness for the Defense poster
7.0

Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.

The Witness for the Defense

1919

No artwork available
9.0

Boone Stallard, elected to the Kentucky Legislature by a mountain district, clashes with Randolph Marshall, a Blue Grass aristocrat who is engaged to Anne, the governor's daughter. When a feud breaks out in the mountains between the Keatons and the Stallards, Boone returns home and with the help of Marshall restores law and order; later, Marshall obtains a commutation of the sentence of Stallard's brother, who has been condemned to death. Boone, now realizing the differences between a rugged, simple mountaineer and an aristocrat, decides not to ask Anne to marry him.

The Kentuckians

1921

The Naulahka poster
NR

Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.

The Naulahka

1918

The Firing Line poster
7.0

Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.

The Firing Line

1919