Acting Gilmour has acted in several
Australian television series, most notably as Kevin Burns in
Prisoner in 1980. Other credits include
The Box,
Chopper Squad,
Kingswood Country,
Waterloo Station,
A Country Practice and
The Flying Doctors. Gilmour's early film credits include
Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978),
John Duigan’s Mouth to Mouth (1978) and
The Odd Angry Shot (1979). His film work continued in the 1980s with
Silver City (1984),
The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) alongside American actor
Eric Roberts and
Malpractice (1989). He also appeared in the 1988 Fred Schepisi drama
Evil Angels (aka
A Cry in the Dark),
Directing Gilmour subsequently moved away from acting to become a director. He was selected from over a thousand applicants to study at the
Australian Film, Television and Radio School specialising in Screen Direction. After completing his diploma, he went into pre-production on the 1985 TV movie
Double Sculls, Other directorial credits in television include:
The Flying Doctors,
Heartbreak High,
Water Rats, ''
McLeod's Daughters, Flipper, Phoenix and Home and Away, as well as the miniseries Snowy and Bordertown''. == Filmography ==