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Sometimes his character's names reflected his curt, stern image -- names such as John P. Grout, Lord Storm and Simon Peck. A founding member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1927), he advanced into the talking era of films with equal verve, although his roles were, more often than not, token grouches.
- August 2, 1870
- November 2, 1939
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).
Biography. 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.
Last name: Gillingwater. SDB Popularity ranking: 14396. This unusual and interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname from a now 'lost' place thought to have been situated in Norfolk.
Gillingwater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Claude Gillingwater (1870–1939), American actor. Edmund Gillingwater (1736–1813), English antiquarian. Michelle Gillingwater Pedersen (born 1987), Gibraltarian beauty queen, Miss Gibraltar 2011.
Madonna of the Streets is a 1924 American drama film directed by Edwin Carewe and written by Frank Griffin, Frederic Hatton, and Fanny Hatton. It is based on the 1904 novel The Ragged Messenger by W. B. Maxwell. The film stars Alla Nazimova, Milton Sills, Claude Gillingwater, Courtenay Foote, Wallace Beery, and Anders Randolf.
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