- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Percy Helmore
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Helmore served as an apprentice in his father's accounting firm while working as an extra in movies. He subsequently pursued acting as a career, working predominantly on the stage. The 1945 Broadway musical "The Day Before Spring" led to Helmore's Hollywood career. In British and American films, Helmore was employed as a dapper, comedic actor.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray Hamel
- SpousesMary Hortense McCorkle (Mary Drayton)(June 1, 1945 - June 24, 1994) (her death, 1 child)Evelyn Hope(August 25, 1931 - 1945) (divorced)
- Children
- A good friend of actor Boris Karloff, even after Karloff married his ex-wife, Evelyn, in 1946.
- He is probably most famous today as the man who hires James Stewart to shadow Kim Novak, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
- He was Rex Harrison's understudy in the original stage production of "My Fair Lady."
- Starred as "The Shadow" in a prospective TV pilot in the 1950s that didn't pan out.
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