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Frank Gillmore (May 14, 1867, New York City, New York – March 29, 1943, New York City, New York) was an American playwright and a stage and early film actor.〔Obituary for Emily Gillmore, ''Isle of Thanet Gazette'' 16 March 1907〕 He was a founder and former President of Actor's Equity. He was born to the British actors Frank Parker Gillmore and his wife Emily (née Thorne: died March 5, 1907), sister of the actress Sarah Thorne and actors Thomas and George Thorne. At the time of his birth his parents were touring the United States, returning to Great Britain three weeks after their son's birth.〔Gillmore, Margalo ''Four Flights Up'' Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston (1964) pg xi〕 Frank Gillmore was educated at the Chiswick Collegiate School in London and made his stage debut in London in 1879, then toured the British provinces for three years before returning to the London stage where he remained for a further five years. During this period he shared lodgings with George Arliss. Gillmore then alternated between appearances in Britain and America for a further five years.〔(William R. Denslow and Harry S. Truman ''10,000 Famous Freemasons from A to J Part One'' (1957) pg 114 ''Google Books'' )〕 Aged 17 he appeared with Lillie Langtry. He married the American actress Laura Margaret MacGillivray whom he met when they both appeared in an American tour of ''Lady Windermere's Fan''. With her he had two daughters, the actors Ruth Gillmore and Margalo Gillmore. Frank Gillmore appeared as a leading man with the companies of Minnie Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Mary Mannering, Bertha Kalich and George Fawcett, among others. Gillmore's stage appearances included a single matinee performance of ''The Merchant of Venice'' on October 17, 1895 at the Gaiety Theatre in London, when he played Bassanio,〔(Gillmore on ''Shakespeare and the Players - the Plays'', Emory University website )〕 ''The Ghost of Jerry Bundler'' at the Haymarket Theatre in London in September 1902,〔(''The Ghost of Jerry Bundler'' on wattpad.com )〕 and ''A Japanese Nightingale'' which opened at Daly's Theater in New York in November 1903.〔(John Luther Long, Maureen Honey, etc, ''Madame Butterfly and A Japanese Nightingale: Two Orientalist Texts'' Rutgers, the State University (2002) pg 174 ''Google Books'' )〕 Gillmore returned to America semi-permanently sometime in the late 1890s, and took his family with him.〔(Margalo Gillmore on ''Broadway Photographs'' )〕 He and his family were long time summer residents of the Actor's Colony at Siasconset, and he was a former president of the Siasconset Casino. Gillmore became a founder of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913 after the Actors Society of America disbanded in 1912. He made two silent films, ''The Fairy and the Waif'' (1915) and ''The Lifted Veil'' (1917). From 1918 to 1929 he was the union's Executive Secretary and eventual President, a position he held from 1929 to 1937.〔(Gillmore on the Screen Actors Guild website )〕 He was also the international President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America from 1938 to 1943〔(Gillmore on 'Guide to the Associated Actors and Artistes of America' Archive )〕 and a Freemason.〔 As President of Actor's Equity Gillmore received The American Arbitration Association's annual gold Commercial Peace Medal in May 1931 "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"〔(''Milestones'' 4 May 4 1931 ''Time'' )〕〔(Actor's Equity ''1930s Timeline'' )〕 Frank Gillmore died of cancer in New York City on March 29, 1943, aged 75. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Gillmore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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