Gertrude Astor

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

138

Movies

223

Born: November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977
From: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Biography

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.

Works

223 films

The Sound of Music

19657.7

Sunset Boulevard

19508.3

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

All About Eve

19508.1

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

19627.8

The Wolf Man

19417.0

3 Godfathers

19486.8

The Best Years of Our Lives

19467.7

The Women

19397.2

A Star Is Born

19547.1

A Place in the Sun

19517.3

The Horse Soldiers

19596.9

Dragonwyck

19466.6

Monsieur Verdoux

19477.7

Angel Face

19537.1

Polly Redhead

1917

Woman in Hiding

19506.3

Two Rode Together

19616.4

Leave Her to Heaven

19457.4

When Worlds Collide

19516.4

Caged

19507.1

Scared Stiff

19536.5

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

19645.7

Daddy Long Legs

19556.4

Paula

19528.2

Dick Tracy

19455.2

Sergeant Rutledge

19607.0

The Best of Everything

19596.3

My Man Godfrey

19576.5

Wichita

19556.3

San Francisco

19366.6

Easy Living

19377.2

Sin Cargo

192610.0

Reap the Wild Wind

19426.4

The Merry Widow

19526.3

The Climax

19445.5

All in a Night's Work

19616.0

Wife Tamers

19267.0

Sister Kenny

19466.9

The File on Thelma Jordon

19496.6

The Female Animal

19586.0

The Scarlet Claw

19447.0

Montana

19505.6

The Verdict

19258.0

The Virgin Queen

19557.0

Deep in My Heart

19546.7

Empty Saddles

193610.0

Burning Daylight

19207.0

The Delicious Little Devil

19195.7

Scandal Sheet

19527.0

The Tingler

19596.4

Kiki

19267.8

My Dear Secretary

19486.1

Chasing Husbands

19287.0

Girls of the Big House

19457.5

The Cat and the Canary

19276.9

Sitting Pretty

19487.1

Here Comes Trouble

19485.2

Great Guy

19366.3

Fort Osage

19526.5

Hold Back the Dawn

19416.7

Thunder on the Hill

19516.4

Wells Fargo

19375.5

Moontide

19426.4

Twin Beds

192910.0

Pretty Smooth

19197.0

Apache Drums

19516.3

Come Clean

19317.2

Loot

19197.0

Tassels in the Air

19386.8

Through the Back Door

19216.5

The Devil's Pay Day

1917

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

Western Limited

19329.0

The Doctor Takes a Wife

19406.8

The Doolins of Oklahoma

19496.8

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

19664.3

Crack-Up

19465.8

Idaho

19436.3

Untamed

19296.2

Calcutta

19466.4

Bondage

1917

It's in the Air

19356.3

Poker Widows

1931

Kentucky Pride

19256.2

Fun on a Weekend

19477.2

Weird Woman

19446.0

The Kansan

19436.0

The Irresistible Lover

19278.0

Hollywood

19239.0

The Cheerful Fraud

19266.5

The Girl Who Won Out

1917

The Gray Ghost

1917

Ginsberg the Great

192710.0

Flaming Gold

19326.2

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

The Big Broadcast of 1938

19386.3

The Six-Fifty

19237.0

Bad Boy

19357.5

The Wall Flower

1922

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

19487.5

Hit of the Show

192810.0

The Brazen Beauty

1918

High Hats and Low Brows

1932

A Woman of Affairs

19286.5

Running Hollywood

19329.0

The Family Group

19287.0

Misbehaving Husbands

19405.2

Broadway or Bust

19247.0

Behind the Front

19266.2

Bunco Squad

19506.1

Pursued

19258.0

The Boy Friend

19268.0

Fight and Win

19249.0

Lost Canyon

19426.3

Beyond the Rocks

19226.0

All Over Town

19376.4

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

192210.0

The Branding Iron

19207.0

Manhattan Monkey Business

193510.0

Postal Inspector

19367.0

Cheyenne's Pal

19174.5

I'll Take Vanilla

193410.0

Satan in Sables

192510.0

Vamping the Vamp

1918

The Strong Man

19266.2

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19276.8

Stocks and Blondes

19288.0

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

194510.0

Alice Adams

19239.0

The Devil's Hand

19614.6

The Lash of Power

1917

Flaming Youth

19233.8

The Country Beyond

192610.0

Stage Struck

19256.5

The Kentucky Derby

19227.5

Oh, What a Man!

19277.0

Skin Deep

192210.0

The Lion Man

19199.0

No More Ladies

19355.0

They Never Come Back

19326.3

The Reckless Sex

1925

The Scarlet Crystal

1917

Bucking Broadway

19175.6

The Little Orphan

1917

Here Comes the Band

19357.0

Music Man

19487.5

Swingin' on a Rainbow

19457.0

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

192410.0

Two Weeks Off

19299.0

In Walked Charley

19328.0

The Llano Kid

19397.0

The Drunkard

19357.0

Rich Relations

19375.5

The Butter and Egg Man

19289.0

Five and Ten Cent Annie

192810.0

Northern Frontier

19358.0

Ship of Wanted Men

19333.8

Her Mad Bargain

192110.0

Folly of Youth

19259.0

The Taxi Dancer

19277.7

Be Yourself!

19305.6

Dames Ahoy

19309.0

Again Pioneers

19505.7

The Torrent

19249.0

Carnival Lady

19336.0

Bombs and Banknotes

19177.0

The Fatal Warning

19295.0

Frisco Lil

19428.3

I Don't Remember

19355.0

Washee Ironee

19346.8

Frozen Justice

19293.7

Don Juan's 3 Nights

19263.7

Wine, Women and Song

19337.0

The Avenging Rider

194310.0

$1,000 a Touchdown

19393.7

The Wicked Darling

19195.6

The Old West

19527.0

While Paris Sleeps

19326.7

Occasionally Yours

19208.0

All's Swell on the Ocean

19248.0

The Old Soak

19268.0

The Ninety and Nine

19227.0

Honeymoon Limited

19355.8

The Charmer

19257.0

Guilty Parents

19345.6

Robes of Sin

19248.0

Wives Never Know

19369.0

Synthetic Sin

192910.0

The Plumber and the Lady

1933

The Small Bachelor

19278.0

Secrets

19246.0

The Fall of Eve

19299.0

Border Brigands

19357.0

The Concert

192110.0

Rose-Marie

19287.0

Lightning Lariats

19277.0

The Silent Watcher

192410.0

Hurricane's Gal

19228.0

The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit

1918

The Rescue

1917

Hell Bound

19317.0

Tell 'Em Nothing

19265.5

The Wanters

19238.0

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

19288.0

Wedding Belles

1934

Borrowed Finery

1925

The Ne'er-Do-Well

192310.0

Seeing's Believing

19227.0

The Chases of Pimple Street

19347.3

I Have Lived

19338.0

What Am I Bid?

19199.0

Rupert of Hentzau

19239.0

Lorna Doone

19226.3

You Never Know

192210.0

Dizzy Daddies

19263.8

Laughing Ladies

19258.0

Cappy Ricks Returns

19356.3

The Price of a Good Time

1917

Ship of Souls

19255.0

Under Two Flags

191510.0

Crook's Tour

193310.0

Live and Learn

19303.3