John Gilbert

Born: 1897-07-10 in Logan, Utah, USA

Died: 1936-01-09

Known For: Acting

Biography

American actor John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle) was one of the biggest stars of the Silent films era. His career subsequently significantly waned during the first years of the sound era.

Filmography

2003

Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1999

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl as Self (archive footage)

1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)

1990

The Divine Garbo as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1986

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Self (archive footage)

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)

1970

Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

1969

Garbo, by Joan Crawford as Self (archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

1955

MGM Parade as Self

1953

Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After as (archive footage)

1934

Queen Christina as Antonio
The Captain Hates the Sea as Steve Bramley
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

1933

Fast Workers as Gunner Smith

1932

Downstairs as Karl Schneider

1931

West of Broadway as Jerry
The Phantom of Paris as Chéri-Bibi
Gentleman's Fate as Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas
We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self

1930

Way for a Sailor as Jack
Redemption as Fedya Protasoff

1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self / Romeo
His Glorious Night as Captain Kovacs
Desert Nights as Hugh Rand
A Man's Man as John Gilbert (uncredited)

1928

Show People as John Gilbert (uncredited)
A Woman of Affairs as Neville Holderness
The Cossacks as Lukashka
Four Walls as Benny
The Masks of the Devil as Baron Reiner

1927

The Show as Cock Robin
Twelve Miles Out as Jerry Fay
Love as Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky
Man, Woman and Sin as Albert Whitcomb

1926

Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
Flesh and the Devil as Leo von Harden
The Merry Widow as Prince Danilo Petrovich
Bardelys the Magnificent as Marquis Christian de Bardelys
La Bohème as Rodolphe

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Big Parade as James 'Jim' Apperson
1925 Studio Tour as Self

1924

He Who Gets Slapped as Bezano
Romance Ranch as Carlos Brent
His Hour as Gritzko
A Man's Mate as Paul
Just Off Broadway as Stephen Moore
The Lone Chance as Jack Saunders
Married Flirts as John Gilbert (uncredited)
The Wolf Man as Gerald Stanley
The Snob as Eugene Curry
The Wife of the Centaur as Jeffrey Dwyer

1923

St. Elmo as St. Elmo Thornton
The Exiles as Henry Holcombe
Cameo Kirby as Cameo Kirby
Truxton King as Truxton King
While Paris Sleeps as Dennis O'Keefe
The Madness of Youth

1922

Arabian Love as Norman Stone
Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo
The Yellow Stain as Donald Keith
A California Romance as Don Patricio Fernando
Calvert's Valley as Page Emlyn
The Love Gambler as Dick Manners
Honor First as Jacques Dubois / Honoré Duboois

1921

The Bait ... (Scenario Writer)
Ladies Must Live as The Gardener
The Servant in the House as Percival
Shame as William Fielding / David Field

1920

Deep Waters as Bill Lacey
The White Circle as Frank Cassilis
The Great Redeemer as (uncredited)

1919

Heart o' the Hills as Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert)
For a Woman's Honor as Dick Rutherford
The Busher as Jim Blair
The White Heather as Dick Beach
A Little Brother of the Rich as Carl Wilmerding
The Man Beneath as James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert)
The Red Viper as Dick Grant
Should a Woman Tell? as The Villain
Widow by Proxy as Jack Pennington

1918

Wedlock as Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert)
The Dawn of Understanding as Ira Beasley
Three X Gordon as Archie
Shackled as James Ashley
Doing Their Bit
More Trouble as Harvey Deering

1917

The Mother Instinct as Jean Coutierre
The Hater of Men as Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert)
The Devil Dodger as Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert)
Princess of the Dark as 'Crip' Halloran (as Jack Gilbert)
The Dark Road as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert)
Golden Rule Kate as The Heller
The Weaker Sex
Love or Justice as Benny
The Millionaire Vagrant as James Cricket

1916

Hell's Hinges as Rowdy Townsman (uncredited)
Civilization as Extra (uncredited)
The Aryan as (uncredited)
The Eye of the Night as (uncredited)
Shell 43 as English Spy
Bullets and Brown Eyes

1915

Aloha Oe as Sailor (uncredited)
Matrimony as Minor Secondary Role (uncredited)
The Coward as A Young Virginian (uncredited)