---
name: "Margalo Gillmore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/margalo-gillmore"
fi1m_id: "margalo-gillmore"
imdb_id: "nm0319357"
tmdb_id: 105019
wikidata_id: "Q3290457"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 May 1897"
died: "30 June 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:50:52.872007+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Margalo Gillmore

## Identity

Margalo Gillmore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/margalo-gillmore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** margalo-gillmore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0319357
- **TMDB ID:** 105019
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3290457
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margalo_Gillmore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3290457, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105019

Actor. Born 30 May 1897 in London, England, UK. Died 30 June 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 May 1897, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 30 June 1986
- **Also known as:** Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore, Margaret Lorraine Gillmore
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margalo_Gillmore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3290457, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319357/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105019

## Biography

Margalo Gillmore (born Margaret Lorraine Gillmore) was an English-born American actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1917 in The Scrap of Paper and appeared regularly with the Theatre Guild. Her stage career included originating roles in The Women (1936) and State of the Union (1945), as well as performances in The Barretts of Wimpole Street during the Second World War.

Gillmore trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She appeared in a small number of films, notably as Mrs. Lord in High Society (1956), Mrs. Edwards in Cause for Alarm! (1951) and Sister Barbara in The Trouble with Angels (1966). Her final stage role was in Noël Coward’s Sail Away on Broadway in 1961.

She was the daughter of actor Frank Gillmore, a founder of Actors’ Equity, and was married to actor-director Robert Ross from 1935 until his death in 1954.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *High Society* (1956), Fi1m 74, as Mrs. Lord — [page](https://film.one/film/high-society.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Trouble with Angels* (1966), as Sister Barbara
- *Peter Pan* (1960), as Mrs. Darling
- *Upstairs and Downstairs* (1959), as Mrs. McGuffey
- *High Society* (1956), as Mrs. Lord — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/high-society.md)
- *Gaby* (1956), as Mrs. Helen Carrington
- *The Barretts of Wimpole Street* (1956), as Arabel Moulton-Barrett
- *Peter Pan* (1956), as Mrs. Darling
- *Peter Pan* (1955), as Mrs. Darling
- *Woman's World* (1954), as Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
- *Scandal at Scourie* (1953), as Alice Hanover
- *Skirts Ahoy!* (1952), as Stauton
- *Elopement* (1951), as Claire Osborne
- *Behave Yourself!* (1951), as Kate's Mother
- *The Law and the Lady* (1951), as Cora Caighn
- *Cause for Alarm!* (1951), as Mrs. Edwards
- *Pulitzer Prize Playhouse* (1950), series, Actor
- *The Happy Years* (1950), as Maude Stover
- *Perfect Strangers* (1950), as Isobel Bradford
- *Wayward* (1932), as Louisa Daniels
- *The Home Girl* (1928), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Margalo Gillmore](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-85d2f1549e0a.jpg) Margalo Gillmore — unknown (Bain News Service), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Margalo_Gillmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photograph of Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) and Louis Calvert (Baron Regnard) in the Broadway production of He Who Gets Slapped (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-04fa435df3c0.jpg) Photograph of Margalo Gillmore (Consuelo) and Louis Calvert (Baron Regnard) in the Broadway production of He Who Gets Slapped (1922) — Current Literature Publishing Company, photograph by Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Margalo Gillmore as Consuelo in the play He Who Gets Slapped (1922), from page 36 of the May 1922 Shadowland.](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-bc548253605f.jpg) Margalo Gillmore as Consuelo in the play He Who Gets Slapped (1922), from page 36 of the May 1922 Shadowland. — Maurice Goldberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photograph of Margalo Gillmore, Frank Reicher and Richard Bennett in the Broadway production of He Who Gets Slapped (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-1160973362d2.jpg) Photograph of Margalo Gillmore, Frank Reicher and Richard Bennett in the Broadway production of He Who Gets Slapped (1922) — Current Literature Publishing Company, photograph by Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/He-Who-Gets-Slapped-1922-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Margalo Gillmore](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-7c1391cad68d.jpg) Margalo Gillmore — Image via TMDB
- ![Margalo Gillmore](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-6df2161ab63e.jpg) Margalo Gillmore — Image via TMDB
- ![Actors Henry Miller as Jeffrey Fair and Margalo Gillmore as Sylvia Fair in 'The Famous Mrs. Fair' (1919) (1920)](https://film.one/media/person/3874768/gallery-b2203a5132e5.jpg) Actors Henry Miller as Jeffrey Fair and Margalo Gillmore as Sylvia Fair in 'The Famous Mrs. Fair' (1919) (1920) — Luther S. White (1857-1936), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/%27The_Famous_Mrs._Fair%27_%281919%29_Henry_Miller_and_Margalo_Gillmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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