CLAUDE GILLINGWATER PHOTOGRAPH

in tuxedo & bow tie

Vintage, 8" x 10", single weight, glossy

Signed and inscribed: "Most sincerely / Claude Gillingwater / 1924"

Condition: minor signs of  handling; light rippling



Claude Gillingwater (born Claude Benton Gillingwater) was an American stage and
screen actor who appeared in 92 films between 1918 and 1939. He was best known
for his curmudgeonly character roles: A Tale of Two Cities (1935) as Jarvis Lorry,
 Mississippi (1935) and The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936). He proved to be an excellent
 foil for Shirley Temple in Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) and then appeared in two more of
 her pictures - Just Around the Corner (1938) and Little Miss Broadway (1938). He was a
 founding member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1927). In 1939, in
failing health and not wanting to become an  invalid, he took his own life.



 

Born: 1870, Louisiana, Missouri; died: 1939, Beverly Hills, California.