Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-07-10

Deathday

1936-01-09 (38 years old)

Place of Birth

Logan, Utah, USA

Also Known As

John Cecil Pringle
Jack Gilbert

John Gilbert

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

6.8%

Queen Christina

Dec 26, 1933

7.6%

The Big Parade

Nov 5, 1925

7.3%

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Dec 25, 1925

7.6%

He Who Gets Slapped

Dec 22, 1924

7.2%

Flesh and the Devil

Dec 25, 1926

7.1%

Show People

Nov 20, 1928

6.8%

The Merry Widow

Sep 27, 1926

5.8%

Love

Nov 29, 1927

6.1%

Hell's Hinges

Mar 5, 1916

5.7%

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Nov 23, 1929

6.7%

A Woman of Affairs

Dec 15, 1928

6.9%

Downstairs

Aug 6, 1932

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Acting

2010

Rediscovering John Gilbert as (archive footage)

2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)

2003

Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1999

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl as Self (archive footage)

1990

The Divine Garbo as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1986

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Self (archive footage)

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After as (archive footage)

1934		The Captain Hates the Sea as Steve Bramley
1934		Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

1933		Queen Christina as Antonio
1933		Fast Workers as Gunner Smith

1932

Downstairs as Karl Schneider

1931		West of Broadway as Jerry Stevens
1931		The Phantom of Paris as Chéri-Bibi
1931		We're switching to Hollywood as Self
1931		Gentleman's Fate as Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas

1930		Way for a Sailor as Jack
1930		Redemption as Fedya Protasoff

1929		The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self / Romeo
1929		His Glorious Night as Captain Kovacs
1929		A Man's Man as John Gilbert (uncredited)
1929		Desert Nights as Hugh Rand

1928		A Woman of Affairs as Neville Holderness
1928		Show People as Self (uncredited)
1928		The Masks of the Devil as Baron Reiner
1928		Four Walls as Benny
1928		The Cossacks as Lukashka

1927		Love as Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky
1927		Man, Woman and Sin as Albert Whitcomb
1927		Twelve Miles Out as Jerry Fay
1927		The Show as Cock Robin

1926		Flesh and the Devil as Leo von Harden
1926		Bardelys the Magnificent as Marquis Christian de Bardelys
1926		The Merry Widow as Prince Danilo Petrovich
1926		La Bohème as Rodolphe

1925		Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925		The Big Parade as James 'Jim' Apperson
1925		1925 Studio Tour as Self

1924		He Who Gets Slapped as Bezano
1924		The Wife of the Centaur as Jeffrey Dwyer
1924		The Snob as Eugene Curry
1924		Married Flirts as John Gilbert (uncredited)
1924		His Hour as Gritzko
1924		A Man's Mate as Paul
1924		The Wolf Man as Gerald Stanley

1923		Cameo Kirby as Cameo Kirby
1923		The Exiles as Henry Holcombe
1923		St. Elmo as St. Elmo Thornton
1923		The Madness of Youth
1923		Truxton King as Truxton King
1923		While Paris Sleeps as Dennis O'Keefe

1922		The Love Gambler as Dick Manners
1922		Calvert's Valley
1922		Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo
1922		Honor First as Jacques Dubois / Honoré Duboois

1921		Ladies Must Live as The Gardener
1921		Shame as William Fielding / David Field

1920		The Great Redeemer as (uncredited)
1920		The White Circle as Frank Cassilis

1919		Should a Woman Tell? as The Villain
1919		Heart o' the Hills as Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert)
1919		A Little Brother of the Rich as Carl Wilmerding
1919		The Man Beneath as James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert)
1919		The White Heather as Dick Beach
1919		The Busher as Jim Blair (as Jack Gilbert)

1918		The Dawn of Understanding as Ira Beasley
1918		Doing Their Bit
1918		Wedlock as Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert)
1918		More Trouble as Harvey Deering
1918		Shackled as James Ashley

1917		The Devil Dodger as Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert)
1917		Golden Rule Kate as The Heller
1917		The Hater of Men as Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert)
1917		Love or Justice as Benny
1917		The Dark Road as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert)
1917		Princess of the Dark as 'Crip' Halloran (as Jack Gilbert)
1917		The Weaker Sex

1916		Shell 43 as English Spy
1916		The Eye of the Night as (uncredited)
1916		Civilization as Extra (uncredited)
1916		The Aryan as (uncredited)
1916		Hell's Hinges as Rowdy Townsman (uncredited)

1915		Matrimony as Minor Secondary Role (uncredited)
1915		The Coward as A Young Virginian (uncredited)

Directing

1927

Love as Co-Director

Writing

1932

Downstairs as Story

1921

The Bait as Scenario Writer

1920		The Great Redeemer as Adaptation
1920		The White Circle as Writer