Frank Gillmore

Frank Parker Gillmore (May 14, 1867 – March 29, 1943) was an American playwright and a stage and early film actor.

Frank Gillmore appeared as a leading man with the companies of Minnie Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Mary Mannering, Bertha Kalich and George Fawcett, among others.

Gillmore's stage appearances included a single matinee performance of The Merchant of Venice on October 17, 1895 at the Gaiety Theatre in London, when he played Bassanio,[4] The Ghost of Jerry Bundler at the Haymarket Theatre in London in September 1902,[5] and A Japanese Nightingale which opened at Daly's Theater in New York in November 1903.

He made two silent films, The Fairy and the Waif (1915) and The Lifted Veil (1917).

[3] As President of Actor's Equity Gillmore received The American Arbitration Association's annual gold Commercial Peace Medal in May 1931 "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"[10][11] Frank Gillmore died of cancer in New York City on March 29, 1943, aged 75.

Mme Nazimova and Frank Gillmore in Pierre Wolff’s Comedy “The Marionettes” at the Lyceum Theatre, 1912