John Gilbert

Career timeline

1. 1897 · Born

   Born in Logan, Utah, USA

2. 1915 · Screen debut

   The Coward (Movie)

3. 1920 · Writing debut

   The White Circle (Movie)

4. 1925 · Breakthrough

   The Big Parade (Movie)

5. 1936 · Died

   January 9, 1936

6. 1964 · Latest release

   The Big Parade of Comedy (Movie)

Career in numbers

23 1910s

42 1920s

10 1930s

1 1940s

1 1950s

1 1960s

• Drama66
• Romance21
• Comedy8
• War4
• Crime4
• Western4

Highest-rated title The Big Parade 1925 7.6 Most popular title Queen Christina 1934 6.9

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside John Gilbert in our catalogue.

J.P. Lockney

3 titles together

Mathilde Comont

3 titles together

Hedda Hopper

2 titles together

1. 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) Movie
2. 1953 Yesterday and Today as (archive footage) Movie
3. 1944 Twenty Years After as (archive footage) Movie
4. 1934 The Captain Hates the Sea as Steve Bramley Movie
5. 1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 Movie
6. 1934 Queen Christina as Antonio 6.9 Movie
7. 1933 Fast Workers as Gunner Smith Movie
8. 1932 Downstairs as Karl Schneider Movie
9. 1931 West of Broadway as Jerry Movie
10. 1931 The Phantom of Paris as Chéri-Bibi Movie
11. 1931 Gentleman's Fate as Giacomo Tomasulo, a.k.a. Jack Thomas Movie
12. 1930 Way for a Sailor as Jack Movie
13. 1930 Redemption as Fedya Protasoff Movie
14. 1929 His Glorious Night as Captain Kovacs Movie
15. 1929 A Man's Man as John Gilbert (uncredited) Movie
16. 1929 Desert Nights as Hugh Rand Movie
17. 1928 A Woman of Affairs as Neville Holderness 6.5 Movie
18. 1928 Show People as John Gilbert (uncredited) 7.1 Movie
19. 1928 The Masks of the Devil as Baron Reiner Movie
20. 1928 Four Walls as Benny Movie
21. 1928 The Cossacks as Lukashka Movie
22. 1927 Love as Capt. Count Alexei Vronsky 5.7 Movie
23. 1927 Man, Woman and Sin as Albert Whitcomb Movie
24. 1927 Twelve Miles Out as Jerry Fay Movie
25. 1927 The Show as Cock Robin Movie
26. 1926 Flesh and the Devil as Leo von Harden 7.2 Movie
27. 1926 Bardelys the Magnificent as Marquis Christian de Bardelys Movie
28. 1926 Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood Movie
29. 1926 La Bohème as Rodolphe Movie
30. 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) 7.3 Movie
31. 1925 The Big Parade as James 'Jim' Apperson 7.6 Movie
32. 1925 The Merry Widow as Prince Danilo Petrovich 6.7 Movie
33. 1924 He Who Gets Slapped as Bezano 7.5 Movie
34. 1924 The Wife of the Centaur as Jeffrey Dwyer Movie
35. 1924 The Snob as Eugene Curry Movie
36. 1924 Married Flirts as John Gilbert (uncredited) Movie
37. 1924 His Hour as Gritzko Movie
38. 1924 Romance Ranch as Carlos Brent Movie
39. 1924 The Lone Chance as Jack Saunders Movie
40. 1924 A Man's Mate as Paul Movie
41. 1924 The Wolf Man as Gerald Stanley Movie
42. 1924 Just Off Broadway as Stephen Moore Movie
43. 1923 Cameo Kirby as Cameo Kirby Movie
44. 1923 The Exiles as Henry Holcombe Movie
45. 1923 St. Elmo as St. Elmo Thornton Movie
46. 1923 The Madness of Youth Movie
47. 1923 While Paris Sleeps as Dennis O'Keefe Movie
48. 1922 A California Romance as Don Patricio Fernando Movie
49. 1922 Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo Movie
50. 1922 The Yellow Stain as Donald Keith Movie
51. 1922 Arabian Love as Norman Stone Movie
52. 1921 Ladies Must Live as The Gardener Movie
53. 1921 The Servant in the House as Percival Movie
54. 1920 Deep Waters as Bill Lacey Movie
55. 1920 The White Circle as Frank Cassilis Movie
56. 1919 Should a Woman Tell? as The Villain Movie
57. 1919 Heart o' the Hills as Gray Pendleton (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
58. 1919 For a Woman's Honor as Dick Rutherford Movie
59. 1919 The Red Viper as Dick Grant Movie
60. 1919 A Little Brother of the Rich as Carl Wilmerding Movie
61. 1919 The Man Beneath as James Bassett (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
62. 1919 The Busher as Jim Blair Movie
63. 1918 The Dawn of Understanding as Ira Beasley Movie
64. 1918 Three X Gordon as Archie Movie
65. 1918 Wedlock as Granger Hollister (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
66. 1918 Shackled as James Ashley Movie
67. 1917 The Devil Dodger as Roger Ingraham (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
68. 1917 The Hater of Men as Billy Williams (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
69. 1917 The Millionaire Vagrant as James Cricket Movie
70. 1917 The Dark Road as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert) Movie
71. 1916 Shell 43 as English Spy Movie
72. 1916 The Eye of the Night as (uncredited) Movie
73. 1916 Civilization as Extra (uncredited) Movie
74. 1916 The Aryan as (uncredited) Movie
75. 1916 Bullets and Brown Eyes Movie
76. 1916 Hell's Hinges as Rowdy Townsman (uncredited) 6.1 Movie
77. 1915 Matrimony as Minor Secondary Role (uncredited) Movie
78. 1915 The Coward as A Young Virginian (uncredited) Movie

1. 1932 Downstairs Movie

1. 1920 Deep Waters Movie
2. 1920 The White Circle Movie

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