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Lowell Gilmore is a Actor American born on 20 december 1906 at Saint Paul (USA)

Lowell Gilmore

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Birth name Lowell Gilmore
Nationality USA
Birth 20 december 1906 at Saint Paul (USA)
Death 31 january 1960 (at 53 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Lowell Gilmore (20 December 1906 - 31 January 1960) was an American stage, film and television actor.

Lowell Gilmore first worked as a stage manager on the 1929 Broadway play The First Mrs. Fraser, but got his chance as an actor when he replaced actor Eric Elliott in the play. This was the start to a successful Broadway career in the 1930s with plays like The Wind and the Rain (1934), The Taming of the Shrew (1935) and Leave Her to Heaven (1940). He made his film debut in Jacques Tourneur's war drama Days of Glory (1944) with Gregory Peck, where he was featured in an extensive role as Peck's second-in-command. His second film role was perhaps his most notable: As painter Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), the film adaption of Oscar Wilde's literature classic. Another notable role was the District Commisioneer in the oscar-winning adventure film King Solomon's Mines (1950) with Deborah Kerr.

Although Gilmore was born in the United States, the "suave-looking, wavy-haired supporting actor" often portrayed British characters like doctors, officers and aristrocrats. His roles were often dapper and sometimes also cads and villains. One of his best roles was probably as the Duke of Gloucester (the future Richard III) in The Black Arrow (1948), where he played him as a semi-sympathetic and charming, semi-villainous character. While his film roles got somewhat smaller in the 1950s, he played in numerous television series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Jack Benny Program. Gilmore also appeared as Pontius Pilate in the television series The Living Christ Series (1951) and the film Day of Triumph (1954). He played his last role in 1958 and died two years later at the age of 53 years.

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Filmography of Lowell Gilmore (34 films)

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Jeanne Eagels, 1h48
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Charles Drake, Agnes Moorehead, Larry Gates, Virginia Grey
Rating61% 3.098873.098873.098873.098873.09887
Jeanne Eagels is a Kansas City waitress. After losing a carnival's beauty contest, she asks carny owner Sal Satori for a job. Her dancing in a skimpy costume is accused of being obscene. Sal decides to join his brother in New York and invites Jeanne to join them in an amusement park at Coney Island.
Comanche
Comanche (1956)
, 1h24
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon, Stacy Harris, John Litel
Roles Ward
Rating55% 2.799822.799822.799822.799822.79982
In 1875, near Durango, Mexico, a group of renegade Comanche attack a peaceful village and kidnap the daughter of a Spanish aristocrat. They escape the Mexican Army by crossing into US territory. Jim Read (Dana Andrews), a frontier scout, is sent to investigate and ease tensions between the Mexicans and the Comanche. But long standing hatred and the profitable business of scalp-hunting does not help in resolving the conflict. Read is sent to negotiate with the Comanche chief, Quanah (Kent Smith). Whilst searching for Quanah, Read sees Art Downey (Stacy Harris), a local scalp-hunter, shoot and injure a Comanche. Read rescues him and takes him to Quanah. Read however is himself accused of the shooting by Black Cloud (Henry Brandon), the renegade leader, until the injured brave recovers enough to clear his name. Read reveals to Quanah that they are cousins and that his mother was the sister of Quanah’s mother. Quanah swears loyalty to his white friend. Read leaves to fetch government officials to a peace council, but discovers a cavalry detachment that has been massacred by Black Cloud and his renegades. The Government official, Commissioner Ward (Lowell Gilmore), has ordered the cavalry to subdue the Indians, by force if necessary. Black Cloud attacks a column of cavalry troopers and captures Ward. Quanah and a large force of loyal Comanche intervene and threaten to attack Black Cloud. Vengeful Black Cloud kills Ward. In the ensuing battle, Read kills Downey and Black Cloud and peace is restored.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki, 1h19
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Russell Johnson, Hilo Hattie, Loring Smith
Roles Robert Coates
Rating63% 3.1968353.1968353.1968353.1968353.196835
The Kettles help out cousin Rodney Kettle in Hawaii with his Pineapple industry. Ma and Pa get acquainted with blue-blooded Mrs. Andrews who thinks the Kettles are the "lowliest" people she has met. This is Percy Kilbride's last appearance as Pa Kettle, and his final movie as well.
The Sea Chase, 1h57
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness
Roles Capt. Evans
Rating63% 3.197673.197673.197673.197673.19767
Captain Karl Ehrlich (John Wayne) is the master of the elderly German steam freighter Ergenstrasse, in port at Sydney, Australia on the eve of the Second World War. Ehrlich is depicted as a patriot, a former career naval officer who lost his rank and position after falling out of favour with the current regime and refusing to support the Nazi Party. As his ship prepares for sea (or to be interned if war is declared) he meets with an old friend, British Commander Jeff Napier (David Farrar) and his fiancée Elsa Keller (Lana Turner).
Blood Alley, 1h55
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Anita Ekberg, Mike Mazurki, James Hong
Roles British Officer
Rating61% 3.0981353.0981353.0981353.0981353.098135
The ship of Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is seized by the Chinese Communists and he is imprisoned by them for two years in the vicinity of Amoy Island. Captain Wilder is helped to escape from prison, dressed as a Soviet officer. The huge Chinese who transports him to Chiku Shan village (Big Han) will not tell him why he has been broken out of prison.
Saskatchewan, 1h23
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian, Robert Douglas, Antonio Moreno
Roles Banks
Rating62% 3.1464153.1464153.1464153.1464153.146415
North-West Mounted Police Sub-Inspector O'Rourke and his Cree half brother Cajou are returning from a trapping trip in northern Canada when they encounter a burned wagon train and sole survivor Grace. Despite the advice of the Metis scout Batouche the naive new Mountie commander Inspector Benton (recently arrived from England) believes it to be a Cree attack, however the Sioux from across the border are trying to force the Cree into being allies in their struggle with the U.S. 7th Cavalry .
Sailor of the King, 1h23
Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Peter van Eyck, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Victor Maddern
Roles Emissary of the King [only USA version, uncredited]
Rating66% 3.344533.344533.344533.344533.34453
During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young British naval officer on five days leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfway along their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England. When Saville proposes to her, she accepts, but on the day they are due to go back to Portsmouth, she changes her mind, asking Saville to realise that neither he nor she could bear being parted for the long periods he would be at sea. They part, seemingly forever.
Francis Covers the Big Town, 1h26
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Donald O'Connor, Gene Lockhart, Yvette Dugay, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Jefferson "JG" Garnet
Rating62% 3.1406853.1406853.1406853.1406853.140685
Peter lands a job at a big New York City newspaper and while on assignment gets framed for a murder.
Plymouth Adventure, 1h45
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn, Barry Jones, Dawn Addams
Roles Edward Winslow
Rating61% 3.096793.096793.096793.096793.09679
The film tells a fictionalized version of the Pilgrims' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to North America aboard the Mayflower. During the long sea voyage, Capt. Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) falls in love with Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), the wife of William Bradford (Leo Genn). The love triangle is resolved in a tragic way at the film's conclusion. Ship's carpenter John Alden (Van Johnson) -- said to be the first person to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620—catches the eye of Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams), one of the young Pilgrims following William Bradford. Alden ultimately wins Priscilla in another, if subtler, triangle with Miles Standish (Noel Drayton). Lloyd Bridges provides comic relief as the first-mate Coppin, and child star Tommy Ivo gives a touching performance as young William Button, the only passenger to die on the actual voyage across the storm-swept Atlantic, who, according to this film, wanted to be the first to sight land and to become a king in the New World. “I’m going to be the first to see land. Keep me eye peeled, I will. Then I’ll be the first. It’ll be like the Garden of Eden and I’m going to be the first to see it”.
Androcles and the Lion, 1h38
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films based on plays
Actors Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester
Roles Metellus
Rating59% 2.999672.999672.999672.999672.99967
The plot is a more or less careful rendition of George Bernard Shaw's script. Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his Roman persecutors. While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. Androcles sees that the cause is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while talking baby language to the lion. His wife had fled, and Androcles is next seen in a procession of Christian prisoners on their way to the Colosseum in Rome. They are joined by the fierce convert Ferrovius who subsequently provides much of the comic entertainment in his struggle to keep his nature in check. Love interest is also introduced by the growing attraction of the Captain to the noble-born convert Lavinia. Eventually the party is sent into the arena to be slaughtered by gladiators, but Ferrovius kills all of them and accepts a commission offered him in the Praetorian Guards. To appease the crowd, one Christian is needed to be savaged by the lions and Androcles volunteers in order to uphold 'the honour of the tailors'. It turns out that the lion is the one that Androcles has helped, and the two waltz round the arena to the acclaim of the people. The Emperor dashes behind the scenes to get a closer look and has to be rescued from the lion by Androcles. He then orders an end to the persecution of Christians and allows Androcles and his new 'pet' to depart in peace.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (1952)

Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Lowell Gilmore, Claud Allister, Marvin Miller
Roles Danton
Rating53% 2.6633952.6633952.6633952.6633952.663395
Le vol d'un trésor de pierres précieuses est à la portée d'un aventurier; il est retenu par son amour pour une bonne femme.
Lone Star
Lone Star (1952)
, 1h34
Directed by Vincent Sherman, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi
Roles Captain Elliott
Rating61% 3.095293.095293.095293.095293.09529
Devereaux Burke gets a personal request from former President Andrew Jackson to help keep Texas from entering into annexation with Mexico. The movement is gaining favor because it is mistakenly believed that Texas pioneer Sam Houston supports it.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (1952)
, 1h34
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller, Marvin Miller, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Danton
Rating53% 2.6633952.6633952.6633952.6633952.663395
Dans la mégalopole de Hong Kong, Jeff Williams, un aventurier sans scrupule tente à tout prix de dérober un bien précieux détenu par un orphelin, mais finit par renoncer pour l'amour d'une belle.
Darling, How Could You!, 1h36
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman, Peter Hansen, Angela Clarke, Angela Clarke
Roles Aubrey Quayne
Rating61% 3.096963.096963.096963.096963.09696
In late 1906, brother and sister Cosmo and Amy Grey have not seen their parents for many years, their father being a doctor who has been in Panama during work on the canal. Their housekeeper sends them to see a play, Peter Pan, but by mistake they end up seeing a rather sophisticated family drama instead.