1. Frank Parker Gillmore was an American playwright and a stage and early film actor.
12 Facts About Frank Gillmore
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Frank Gillmore was a founder and former President of Actor's Equity.
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Frank Gillmore was born in New York City to John Parker Gillmore and his actress wife, Emily, sister of the actress Sarah Thorne and actors Thomas and George Thorne.
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Frank Gillmore was educated at the Chiswick Collegiate School in London and made his stage debut in London in 1879, then toured the British provinces for three years before returning to the London stage where he remained for a further five years.
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Frank Gillmore married the American actress Laura Margaret MacGillivray whom he met when they both appeared in an American tour of Lady Windermere's Fan.
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Frank Gillmore appeared as a leading man with the companies of Minnie Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Mary Mannering, Bertha Kalich and George Fawcett, among others.
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Frank Gillmore returned to America semi-permanently sometime in the late 1890s, and took his family with him.
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Frank Gillmore and his family were long time summer residents of the Actor's Colony at Siasconset, and he was a former president of the Siasconset Casino.
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Frank Gillmore became a founder of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913 after the Actors Society of America disbanded in 1912.
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Frank Gillmore made two silent films, The Fairy and the Waif and The Lifted Veil.
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Frank Gillmore was the international President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America from 1938 to 1943 and a Freemason.
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Frank Gillmore died of cancer in New York City on March 29,1943, aged 75.