Born in Newark, New Jersey, Kilgore attended Andrew Jackson High School where he played basketball with a young Bob Cousy.

This four-part, semi-professional production paid homage to Republic Pictures and its adventure serials, while kidding the vintage film subculture of the 1960s.

The plot involved a masked villain named The Master Duper, one of three members of a Film Commission who attempts to steal the only known prints of priceless antique films, and the heroic Captain Celluloid, who wears a costume reminiscent of that of the Black Commando in the Columbia serial The Secret Code and is determined to uncover him.

Kilgore produced and scripted The World of Hans Christian Andersen (1971) which he co-directed with Chuck McCann.

He was a founding member of the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, The Sons of the Desert, and drew the organization's crest.