John Gilbert - Actor Profile

John Gilbert

50Movies
8.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2007 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema Self (archive footage) ★ 4.3 FLOP
2003 Complicated Women Self (archive footage) ★ 6.7 HIT
1999 Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl Self (archive footage) ★ 7.7 HIT
1986 Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown Self (archive footage) ★ 8.0 HIT
1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor Self (archive footage) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory Self (archive footage) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1969 Garbo, by Joan Crawford Self (archive footage) ★ 4.0 FLOP
1965 The Love Goddesses (Archive Footage) ★ 6.1 FLOP
1964 The Big Parade of Comedy Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 6.3 FLOP
1944 Twenty Years After (archive footage) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1934 The Captain Hates the Sea Steve Bramley ★ 5.8 FLOP
1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 - ★ 6.0 FLOP
1934 Queen Christina Antonio ★ 6.8 HIT
1933 Fast Workers Gunner Smith ★ 4.7 FLOP
1932 Downstairs Karl Schneider ★ 6.5 HIT
1931 West of Broadway Jerry ★ 6.3 FLOP
1931 The Phantom of Paris Chéri-Bibi ★ 5.9 FLOP
1931 We're switching to Hollywood Self ★ 4.8 FLOP
1931 Gentleman's Fate Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas ★ 6.0 FLOP
1930 Way for a Sailor Jack ★ 4.4 FLOP
1930 Redemption Fedya Protasoff ★ 4.5 FLOP
1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Self / Romeo ★ 5.6 FLOP
1929 Desert Nights Hugh Rand ★ 5.2 FLOP
1928 A Woman of Affairs Neville Holderness ★ 6.4 FLOP
1928 Show People John Gilbert (uncredited) ★ 7.1 HIT
1928 Four Walls Benny ★ 7.3 HIT
1928 The Cossacks Lukashka ★ 7.3 HIT
1927 Love Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky ★ 5.6 FLOP
1927 Twelve Miles Out Jerry Fay ★ 6.0 FLOP
1927 The Show Cock Robin ★ 6.0 FLOP
1926 Flesh and the Devil Leo von Harden ★ 7.1 HIT
1926 Bardelys the Magnificent Marquis Christian de Bardelys ★ 7.4 HIT
1926 The Merry Widow Prince Danilo Petrovich ★ 6.7 HIT
1926 La Bohème Rodolphe ★ 6.3 FLOP
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) ★ 7.3 HIT
1925 The Big Parade James 'Jim' Apperson ★ 7.5 HIT
1925 1925 Studio Tour Self ★ 6.1 FLOP
1924 He Who Gets Slapped Bezano ★ 7.6 HIT
1924 The Wolf Man Gerald Stanley ★ 6.5 HIT
1923 Cameo Kirby Cameo Kirby ★ 5.8 FLOP
1922 Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo ★ 6.2 FLOP
1919 Should a Woman Tell? The Villain ★ 5.5 FLOP
1919 Heart o' the Hills Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1919 The Man Beneath James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1919 The Busher Jim Blair (as Jack Gilbert) ★ 5.1 FLOP
1917 Love or Justice Benny ★ 6.0 FLOP
1916 Civilization Extra (uncredited) ★ 5.2 FLOP
1916 The Aryan (uncredited) ★ 5.5 FLOP
1916 Hell's Hinges Rowdy Townsman (uncredited) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1915 The Coward A Young Virginian (uncredited) ★ 5.8 FLOP