---
name: "Tom Helmore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-helmore"
fi1m_id: "tom-helmore"
imdb_id: "nm0375738"
tmdb_id: 5731
wikidata_id: "Q919651"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 January 1904"
died: "12 September 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:24:21.252626+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."
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# Tom Helmore

## Identity

Tom Helmore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-helmore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-helmore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0375738
- **TMDB ID:** 5731
- **Wikidata ID:** Q919651
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Helmore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919651, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5731

Actor. Born 4 January 1904 in London, England. Died 12 September 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 January 1904, London, England
- **Died:** 12 September 1995
- **Also known as:** Thomas Percy Helmore
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Helmore, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919651, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5731

## Biography

Tom Helmore (also credited as Thomas Percy Helmore) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1927 and 1972, as well as on stage and television.

Born in London, he began as an extra while working in his father's accounting firm before pursuing acting professionally, primarily on the London stage and later on Broadway. His Broadway work, including in the 1945 musical *The Day Before Spring*, led to a Hollywood career in which he was often cast as a dapper comedic actor.

Helmore is best known for playing Gavin Elster in Alfred Hitchcock's *Vertigo* (1958). He also appeared in Hitchcock's *The Ring* (1927) and *Secret Agent* (1936), and in films such as *The Tender Trap* (1955), *Designing Woman* (1957), *The Time Machine* (1960) and *Advise & Consent* (1962). He died in Longboat Key, Florida.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Vertigo* (1958), Fi1m 92, as Gavin Elster — [page](https://film.one/film/vertigo.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Scarecrow* (1972), as Sir Charles Reddington
- *Night Gallery* (1970), series, as John Warwick (segment “The Caterpillar”)
- *Flipper's New Adventure* (1964), as Sir Halsey Hopewell
- *Advise & Consent* (1962), as British Ambassador
- *The Time Machine* (1960), as Anthony Bridewell
- *The Man in the Net* (1959), as Gordon Moreland
- *Count Your Blessings* (1959), as Hugh Palgrave
- *Vertigo* (1958), as Gavin Elster — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/vertigo.md)
- *Designing Woman* (1957), as Zachary Wilde
- *This Could Be the Night* (1957), as Stowe Devlin
- *The Tender Trap* (1955), as Mr. Loughran
- *Lucy Gallant* (1955), as Jim Wardman
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Miles Farnham
- *The Shadow* (1954), as Lamont Cranston
- *Let's Do It Again* (1953), as Courtney Craig
- *Trouble Along the Way* (1953), as Harold McCormick
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as George Manson
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Detective Superintendent Tom Reid
- *Shadow on the Wall* (1950), as Crane Weymouth
- *Malaya* (1949), as Matisson
- *Scene of the Crime* (1949), as Norrie Lorfield
- *Three Daring Daughters* (1948), as Michael Pemberton
- *Secret Journey* (1939), as Captain Benoit
- *Easy Riches* (1938), as Harry Miller
- *Secret Agent* (1936), as Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
- *The Right Age to Marry* (1935), as Stephen
- *The Riverside Murder* (1935), as Alfred Jerome
- *The Feathered Serpent* (1934), as Peter Dewin
- *Up for the Derby* (1933), as Ronnie Gordon
- *The King's Cup* (1933), as Ronnie Helmore
- *The Barton Mystery* (1932), as Harry Maitland
- *Above Rubies* (1932), as Paul
- *Two Way Street* (1931), as Geoffrey
- *My Wife's Family* (1931), as Willie Nagg
- *The House of Unrest* (1931), as David
- *Leave It to Me* (1930), as Tony
- *White Cargo* (1929), as Worthing
- *The Ring* (1927), as Spectator (uncredited)
- *And One Was Loyal*, as George Manson

## Gallery

- ![Tom Helmore](https://film.one/media/person/59156/gallery-27a13d7110ef.jpg) Tom Helmore — unknown (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Tom_Helmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![English: Harbor Drive-In theater advertisement for the psychological thriller film, Vertigo. 24 July 1958.](https://film.one/media/person/59156/gallery-068f89384a9e.jpg) English: Harbor Drive-In theater advertisement for the psychological thriller film, Vertigo. 24 July 1958. — Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Harbor_Drive-In_Ad_-_24_July_1958%2C_National_City%2C_CA.jpg/1280px-Harbor_Drive-In_Ad_-_24_July_1958%2C_National_City%2C_CA.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tom Helmore](https://film.one/media/person/59156/gallery-ffd148d0ab7a.jpg) Tom Helmore — Image via TMDB

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