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

1933

Fast Workers as Gunner Smith

1932

Downstairs as Karl Schneider

1931

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

1930

Way for a Sailor as Jack
Redemption as Fedya Protasoff

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

Flesh and the Devil as Leo von Harden
Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
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
The Merry Widow as Prince Danilo Petrovich
1925 Studio Tour as Self

1924

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

1923

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

1922

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

1921

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

1920

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

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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

1916

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

1915

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