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John Gilbert was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover". At the height of his career, Gilbert rivaled Rudolph Valentino, another silent film era leading man, as a box office draw.
Birth Name
John Cecil Pringle
Born
Saturday, 10 July 1897
Died
Thursday, 09 January 1936
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Leo von Harden | 2010 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self / Antonio | 2007 |
| Garbo | Self | 2005 |
| The Dreamers | Antonio | 2003 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self (at a premiere) | 1999 |
| Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream | Self | 1998 |
| Great Romances of the 20th Century | (archive footage) | 1997 |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood | Leo von Harden | 2010 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self / Antonio | 2007 |
| Garbo | Self | 2005 |
| The Dreamers | Antonio | 2003 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self (at a premiere) | 1999 |
| Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream | Self | 1998 |
| Great Romances of the 20th Century | (archive footage) | 1997 |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995 |
| The 63rd Annual Academy Awards | Self | 1991 |
| The Divine Garbo | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| Talking Pictures | Various characters | 1988 |
| Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown | Self / (archive footage) | 1985 |
| Hollywood | Actor 'Woman of Affairs' / Actor 'The Big Parade' | 1980 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Actor Arriving at MGM / (archive footage) | 1964 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actor 'The Big Parade' | 1961 |
| MGM Parade | Antonio in 'Queen Christina' | 1955 |
| Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953 |
| Strictly Dishonorable | Self - Actor in Silent Movie 'A Woman of Affairs' | 1951 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | James Apperson in 'The Big Parade' | 1948 |
| Gaslight Follies | Self | 1945 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| Some of the Best | James Apperson in The Big Parade / Prince Danilo Petrovich in The Merry Widow / Leo von Harden in Flesh and the Devil | 1944 |
| The Movies March On | Self | 1939 |
| The Captain Hates the Sea | Steve Bramley | 1934 |
| Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | 1934 | |
| Queen Christina | Antonio | 1934 |
| Fast Workers | Gunner Smith | 1933 |
| Downstairs | Karl Schneider | 1932 |
| West of Broadway | Jerry Stevens | 1931 |
| The Phantom of Paris | Chéri-Bibi | 1931 |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | Self | 1931 |
| Gentleman's Fate | Giacomo Tomasulo aka Jack Thomas / Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas | 1931 |
| Way for a Sailor | Jack | 1930 |
| Redemption | Fedya Protasoff | 1930 |
| His Glorious Night | Captain Kovacs | 1929 |
| The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | John Gilbert / Romeo / Self | 1929 |
| Desert Nights | Hugh Rand | 1929 |
| A Woman of Affairs | Neville Holderness | 1928 |
| The Masks of the Devil | Baron Reiner / Baron Erwin Reiner | 1928 |
| Show People | John Gilbert | 1928 |
| The Cossacks | Lukashka | 1928 |
| Love | Vronsky / Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky | 1928 |
| Man, Woman and Sin | Albert Whitcomb | 1927 |
| Twelve Miles Out | Jerry Fay | 1927 |
| The Show | Cock Robin | 1927 |
| Flesh and the Devil | Leo von Harden | 1926 |
| Bardelys the Magnificent | Marquis Christian de Bardelys | 1926 |
| La Bohème | Rodolphe | 1926 |
| The Merry Widow | Prince Danilo Petrovich / Prince Danilo | 1926 |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator | 1925 |
| The Big Parade | James Apperson / James 'Jim' Apperson | 1925 |
| 1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925 |
| He Who Gets Slapped | Bezano | 1924 |
| The Wife of the Centaur | Jeffrey Dwyer | 1924 |
| Married Flirts | John Gilbert | 1924 |
| His Hour | Gritzko | 1924 |
| Romance Ranch | Carlos Brent | 1924 |
| The Lone Chance | Jack Saunders | 1924 |
| A Man's Mate | Paul | 1924 |
| The Wolf Man | Gerald Stanley | 1923 |
| Cameo Kirby | Cameo Kirby | 1923 |
| The Exiles | Henry Holcombe | 1923 |
| Madness of Youth | Jaca Javalie | 1923 |
| Truxton King | Truxton King | 1923 |
| While Paris Sleeps | Dennis O'Keefe | 1923 |
| A California Romance | Don Patricio Fernando | 1922 |
| The Love Gambler | Dick Manners | 1922 |
| Calvert's Valley | Page Emlyn | 1922 |
| Monte Cristo | Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo | 1922 |
| Honor First | Jacques Dubois / Honoré Duboois / acques Dubois / Honoré Dubois | 1922 |
| The Yellow Stain | Donald Keith | 1922 |
| Arabian Love | Norman Stone | 1922 |
| Gleam O'Dawn | Gleam O'Dawn | 1922 |
| Ladies Must Live | The Gardener | 1921 |
| Shame | William Fielding / David Field | 1921 |
| The Servant in the House | Percival | 1921 |
| The Great Redeemer | Undetermined Role | 1920 |
| Heart o' the Hills | Gray Pendleton / Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert) | 1919 |
| Widow by Proxy | Jack Pennington | 1919 |
| For a Woman's Honor | Dick Rutherford | 1919 |
| A Little Brother of the Rich | Carl Wilmerding | 1919 |
| The Man Beneath | James Bassett / James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert) | 1919 |
| The White Heather | Dick Beach | 1919 |
| The Busher | Jim Blair (as Jack Gilbert) / Jim Blair | 1919 |
| The Heart of Humanity | American Soldier | 1919 |
| The Dawn of Understanding | Ira Beasley | 1918 |
| Three X Gordon | Archie | 1918 |
| Wedlock | Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert) / Granger Hollister | 1918 |
| More Trouble | Harvey Deering | 1918 |
| One Dollar Bid | (as Jack Gilbert) | 1918 |
| Nancy Comes Home | Phil Ballou | 1918 |
| The Devil Dodger | Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert) / Roger Ingraham | 1917 |
| Golden Rule Kate | The Heller | 1917 |
| The Mother Instinct | Jean Coutierre | 1917 |
| The Hater of Men | Billy Williams / Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert) | 1917 |
| Love or Justice | Benny | 1917 |
| The Millionaire Vagrant | James Cricket | 1917 |
| Princess of the Dark | 'Crip' Halloran / 'Crip' Halloran (as Jack Gilbert) | 1917 |
| The Bride of Hate | Dr. Duprez's Son | 1917 |
| The Sin Ye Do | Jimmy | 1916 |
| Shell 43 | English Spy | 1916 |
| The Phantom | Bertie Bereton | 1916 |
| The Apostle of Vengeance | Willie Hudson | 1916 |
| Civilization | Extra | 1916 |
| The Aryan | Minor Role | 1916 |
| Hell's Hinges | Rowdy Townsman | 1916 |
| Bullets and Brown Eyes | (as Jack Gilbert) | 1916 |
| The Corner | Extra | 1916 |
| The Coward | A Young Virginian | 1915 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Love | 1928 |
| Love's Penalty | 1921 |
