
John Gilbert
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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
Credits

Queen Christina (1934)
as Antonio

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Show People (1928)
as John Gilbert (uncredited)

Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)

The Big Parade (1925)
as James 'Jim' Apperson

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Self (archive footage)

La Bohème (1926)
as Rodolphe

Flesh and the Devil (1926)
as Leo von Harden

Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
as Self / Romeo

Downstairs (1932)
as Karl Schneider

He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
as Bezano

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)
as Self (archive footage)

The Merry Widow (1926)
as Prince Danilo Petrovich

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)

Love (1927)
as Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky

The Show (1927)
as Cock Robin

St. Elmo (1923)
as St. Elmo Thornton

Cameo Kirby (1923)
as Cameo Kirby

Honor First (1922)
as Jacques Dubois / Honoré Duboois

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934)
Actor

Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970)
as Self (archive footage)

Shame (1921)
as William Fielding / David Field

1925 Studio Tour (1925)
as Self

Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
as Marquis Christian de Bardelys

A Man's Man (1929)
as John Gilbert (uncredited)

Hell's Hinges (1916)
as Rowdy Townsman (uncredited)

A Man's Mate (1924)
as Paul

Shackled (1918)
as James Ashley

The Phantom of Paris (1931)
as Chéri-Bibi

The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
as Jeffrey Dwyer

The Cossacks (1928)
as Lukashka

Aloha Oe (1915)
as Sailor (uncredited)

His Glorious Night (1929)
as Captain Kovacs

A Woman of Affairs (1928)
as Neville Holderness

Way for a Sailor (1930)
as Jack

Redemption (1930)
as Fedya Protasoff

Wedlock (1918)
as Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert)
Deep Waters (1920)
as Bill Lacey

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)
as Self (archive footage)

Monte Cristo (1922)
as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo

Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
as Albert Whitcomb

Four Walls (1928)
as Benny

The Divine Garbo (1990)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Garbo, by Joan Crawford (1969)
as Self (archive footage)

Heart o' the Hills (1919)
as Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert)

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
as Steve Bramley

The Yellow Stain (1922)
as Donald Keith

Widow by Proxy (1919)
as Jack Pennington

The Man Beneath (1919)
as James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert)

Calvert's Valley (1922)
as Page Emlyn

Truxton King (1923)
as Truxton King

The Hater of Men (1917)
as Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert)

West of Broadway (1931)
as Jerry

Shell 43 (1916)
as English Spy

Yesterday and Today (1953)
as (archive footage)

A Little Brother of the Rich (1919)
as Carl Wilmerding

Fast Workers (1933)
as Gunner Smith

The Exiles (1923)
as Henry Holcombe

Doing Their Bit (1918)
Actor

The Dawn of Understanding (1918)
as Ira Beasley

His Hour (1924)
as Gritzko

While Paris Sleeps (1923)
as Dennis O'Keefe

The Busher (1919)
as Jim Blair

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo (2014)
as Self (archive footage)

The Aryan (1916)
as (uncredited)

The Coward (1915)
as A Young Virginian (uncredited)
Just Off Broadway (1924)
as Stephen Moore
The Servant in the House (1921)
as Percival

Romance Ranch (1924)
as Carlos Brent

Gentleman's Fate (1931)
as Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas

For a Woman's Honor (1919)
as Dick Rutherford

We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931)
as Self

The Madness of Youth (1923)
Actor

Civilization (1916)
as Extra (uncredited)

Matrimony (1915)
as Minor Secondary Role (uncredited)

The White Circle (1920)
as Frank Cassilis

Should a Woman Tell? (1919)
as The Villain

The Eye of the Night (1916)
as (uncredited)
A California Romance (1922)
as Don Patricio Fernando

Desert Nights (1929)
as Hugh Rand

The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)
as James Cricket

The Devil Dodger (1917)
as Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert)

The Lone Chance (1924)
as Jack Saunders
The Mother Instinct (1917)
as Jean Coutierre

The Love Gambler (1922)
as Dick Manners
Bullets and Brown Eyes (1916)
Actor

Twelve Miles Out (1927)
as Jerry Fay

Rediscovering John Gilbert (2010)
as (archive footage)

Arabian Love (1922)
as Norman Stone

The Weaker Sex (1917)
Actor

The Masks of the Devil (1928)
as Baron Reiner

The White Heather (1919)
as Dick Beach

Three X Gordon (1918)
as Archie

The Red Viper (1919)
as Dick Grant
Princess of the Dark (1917)
as 'Crip' Halloran (as Jack Gilbert)

Golden Rule Kate (1917)
as The Heller

Ladies Must Live (1921)
as The Gardener

More Trouble (1918)
as Harvey Deering

The Wolf Man (1924)
as Gerald Stanley

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1986)
as Self (archive footage)

Love or Justice (1917)
as Benny

The Snob (1924)
as Eugene Curry

The Great Redeemer (1920)
as (uncredited)

The Dark Road (1917)
as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert)

Married Flirts (1924)
as John Gilbert (uncredited)





