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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 10, 1897
Died
January 9, 1936
Place of Birth
Logan, Utah, USA
Also Known As
- John Cecil Pringle
- Jack Gilbert
John Gilbert
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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(archive footage)
Rediscovering John Gilbert
2010
4.9
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
0.0
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Divine Garbo
1990
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8.0
Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986
6.0
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
6.3
Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
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(archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
1953
Credits
Rediscovering John Gilbert
as (archive footage)
2010
0.0
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.9
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (archive footage)
1999
7.7
The Divine Garbo
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
0.0
🎬
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self (archive footage)
1986
8.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
6.3
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
0.0
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
The Captain Hates the Sea
as Steve Bramley
1934
6.5
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.0
Queen Christina
as Antonio
1933
6.8
Fast Workers
as Gunner Smith
1933
5.3
Downstairs
as Karl Schneider
1932
6.9
West of Broadway
as Jerry
1931
6.3
The Phantom of Paris
as Chéri-Bibi
1931
5.9
We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
1931
4.8
Gentleman's Fate
as Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas
1931
5.5
Way for a Sailor
as Jack
1930
4.4
Redemption
as Fedya Protasoff
1930
4.5
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self / Romeo
1929
5.7
His Glorious Night
as Captain Kovacs
1929
0.0
A Man's Man
as John Gilbert (uncredited)
1929
0.0
Desert Nights
as Hugh Rand
1929
5.4
A Woman of Affairs
as Neville Holderness
1928
6.7
Show People
as Self (uncredited)
1928
7.1
The Masks of the Devil
as Baron Reiner
1928
0.0
Four Walls
as Benny
1928
7.0
The Cossacks
as Lukashka
1928
7.3
Love
as Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky
1927
5.8
Man, Woman and Sin
as Albert Whitcomb
1927
4.7
Twelve Miles Out
as Jerry Fay
1927
6.0
The Show
as Cock Robin
1927
6.0
Flesh and the Devil
as Leo von Harden
1926
7.2
Bardelys the Magnificent
as Marquis Christian de Bardelys
1926
7.4
The Merry Widow
as Prince Danilo Petrovich
1926
6.8
La Bohème
as Rodolphe
1926
6.6
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
7.3
The Big Parade
as James 'Jim' Apperson
1925
7.6
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
1925
6.2
He Who Gets Slapped
as Bezano
1924
7.6
The Wife of the Centaur
as Jeffrey Dwyer
1924
1.0
The Snob
as Eugene Curry
1924
0.0
Married Flirts
as John Gilbert (uncredited)
1924
0.0
His Hour
as Gritzko
1924
0.0
A Man's Mate
as Paul
1924
0.0
The Wolf Man
as Gerald Stanley
1924
6.5
Cameo Kirby
as Cameo Kirby
1923
5.8
The Exiles
as Henry Holcombe
1923
0.0
St. Elmo
as St. Elmo Thornton
1923
0.0
The Madness of Youth
1923
0.0
Truxton King
as Truxton King
1923
0.0
While Paris Sleeps
as Dennis O'Keefe
1923
0.0
The Love Gambler
as Dick Manners
1922
0.0
Calvert's Valley
1922
0.0
Monte Cristo
as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo
1922
6.4
Honor First
as Jacques Dubois / Honoré Duboois
1922
0.0
Ladies Must Live
as The Gardener
1921
0.0
Shame
as William Fielding / David Field
1921
0.0
The Great Redeemer
as (uncredited)
1920
0.0
The White Circle
as Frank Cassilis
1920
0.0
Should a Woman Tell?
as The Villain
1919
5.5
Heart o' the Hills
as Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert)
1919
6.0
A Little Brother of the Rich
as Carl Wilmerding
1919
0.0
The Man Beneath
as James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert)
1919
6.0
The White Heather
as Dick Beach
1919
0.0
The Busher
as Jim Blair (as Jack Gilbert)
1919
5.1
The Dawn of Understanding
as Ira Beasley
1918
0.0
Doing Their Bit
1918
0.0
Wedlock
as Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert)
1918
0.0
More Trouble
as Harvey Deering
1918
0.0
Shackled
as James Ashley
1918
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The Devil Dodger
as Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert)
1917
0.0
Golden Rule Kate
as The Heller
1917
0.0
The Hater of Men
as Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert)
1917
0.0
Love or Justice
as Benny
1917
6.0
The Dark Road
as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert)
1917
0.0
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Princess of the Dark
as 'Crip' Halloran (as Jack Gilbert)
1917
0.0
The Weaker Sex
1917
0.0
Shell 43
as English Spy
1916
0.0
The Eye of the Night
as (uncredited)
1916
0.0
Civilization
as Extra (uncredited)
1916
5.2
The Aryan
as (uncredited)
1916
5.5
Hell's Hinges
as Rowdy Townsman (uncredited)
1916
6.0
Matrimony
as Minor Secondary Role (uncredited)
1915
0.0
The Coward
as A Young Virginian (uncredited)
1915
5.7