Gertrude Astor

Acting · 0.6 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

3 Godfathers

19486.8

The Wolf Man

19417.0

The Best Years of Our Lives

19467.7

The Women

19397.2

A Place in the Sun

19517.3

Dragonwyck

19466.6

Monsieur Verdoux

19477.7

The Horse Soldiers

19596.9

A Star Is Born

19547.1

Angel Face

19537.1

Polly Redhead

1917

Caged

19507.1

Scared Stiff

19536.5

Two Rode Together

19616.4

Leave Her to Heaven

19457.4

Daddy Long Legs

19556.4

Woman in Hiding

19506.3

Wichita

19556.3

Sergeant Rutledge

19607.0

San Francisco

19366.6

My Man Godfrey

19576.5

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

19645.7

Paula

19528.2

When Worlds Collide

19516.4

The Female Animal

19586.0

Scandal Sheet

19527.0

All in a Night's Work

19616.0

The Merry Widow

19526.3

Reap the Wild Wind

19426.4

Easy Living

19377.2

The Climax

19445.5

Dick Tracy

19455.2

The File on Thelma Jordon

19496.6

The Tingler

19596.4

Montana

19505.6

Sitting Pretty

19487.1

Here Comes Trouble

19485.2

Fort Osage

19526.5

The Best of Everything

19596.3

The Verdict

19258.0

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Sin Cargo

192610.0

Wife Tamers

19267.0

Apache Drums

19516.3

The Scarlet Claw

19447.0

Kiki

19267.8

Deep in My Heart

19546.7

Chasing Husbands

19287.0

The Doolins of Oklahoma

19496.8

The Virgin Queen

19557.0

The Cat and the Canary

19276.9

My Dear Secretary

19486.1

Thunder on the Hill

19516.4

Moontide

19426.4

Burning Daylight

19207.0

The Delicious Little Devil

19195.7

Kentucky Pride

19256.2

Through the Back Door

19216.5

The Devil's Pay Day

1917

Empty Saddles

193610.0

Great Guy

19366.3

It's in the Air

19356.3

Alice Adams

19239.0

Pretty Smooth

19197.0

Come Clean

19317.2

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

Hit of the Show

192810.0

Hold Back the Dawn

19416.7

A Woman of Affairs

19286.5

Wells Fargo

19375.5

Idaho

19436.3

The Doctor Takes a Wife

19406.8

Girls of the Big House

19457.5

Bondage

1917

Crack-Up

19465.8

Bunco Squad

19506.1

Tassels in the Air

19386.8

Calcutta

19466.4

The Kansan

19436.0

The Gray Ghost

1917

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

19487.5

Loot

19197.0

Untamed

19296.2

Hollywood

19239.0

The Wall Flower

1922

Twin Beds

192910.0

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19276.8

The Boy Friend

19268.0

Flaming Gold

19326.2

Poker Widows

1931

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

19664.3

Western Limited

19329.0

The Old West

19527.0

Fight and Win

19249.0

Weird Woman

19446.0

Stage Struck

19256.5

Beyond the Rocks

19226.0

Broadway or Bust

19247.0

Bad Boy

19357.5

The Branding Iron

19207.0

Here Comes the Band

19357.0

Cheyenne's Pal

19174.5

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

192210.0

The Strong Man

19266.2

Fun on a Weekend

19477.2

The Little Orphan

1917

The Brazen Beauty

1918

Manhattan Monkey Business

193510.0

The Lion Man

19199.0

Postal Inspector

19367.0

The Girl Who Won Out

1917

All Over Town

19376.4

Skin Deep

192210.0

The Kentucky Derby

19227.5

Pursued

19258.0

The Big Broadcast of 1938

19386.3

The Irresistible Lover

19278.0

Vamping the Vamp

1918

Satan in Sables

192510.0

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

192410.0

In Walked Charley

19328.0

Again Pioneers

19505.7

Wives Never Know

19369.0

The Six-Fifty

19237.0

The Family Group

19287.0

All's Swell on the Ocean

19248.0

Running Hollywood

19329.0

The Country Beyond

192610.0

Five and Ten Cent Annie

192810.0

Behind the Front

19266.2

Stocks and Blondes

19288.0

The Cheerful Fraud

19266.5

Misbehaving Husbands

19405.2

The Drunkard

19357.0

The Old Soak

19268.0

Hell Bound

19317.0

Frozen Justice

19293.7

Ginsberg the Great

192710.0

High Hats and Low Brows

1932

The Lash of Power

1917

They Never Come Back

19326.3

Bucking Broadway

19175.6

The Torrent

19249.0

Frisco Lil

19428.3

Rupert of Hentzau

19239.0

Border Brigands

19357.0

The Silent Watcher

192410.0

What Am I Bid?

19199.0

Synthetic Sin

192910.0

I'll Take Vanilla

193410.0

Folly of Youth

19259.0

Be Yourself!

19305.6

Swingin' on a Rainbow

19457.0

The Taxi Dancer

19277.7

Lost Canyon

19426.3

The Reckless Sex

1925

Oh, What a Man!

19277.0

Her Mad Bargain

192110.0

Washee Ironee

19346.8

Wedding Belles

1934

The Llano Kid

19397.0

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

19288.0

Dames Ahoy

19309.0

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

194510.0

No More Ladies

19355.0

The Butter and Egg Man

19289.0

Tell 'Em Nothing

19265.5

The Fatal Warning

19295.0

Flaming Youth

19233.8

Northern Frontier

19358.0

The Fall of Eve

19299.0

The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit

1918

The Avenging Rider

194310.0

Two Weeks Off

19299.0

The Wanters

19238.0

The Ninety and Nine

19227.0

Ship of Wanted Men

19333.8

The Rescue

1917

The Scarlet Crystal

1917

Rich Relations

19375.5

Wine, Women and Song

19337.0

Carnival Lady

19336.0

Music Man

19487.5

Lightning Lariats

19277.0

The Ne'er-Do-Well

192310.0

The Plumber and the Lady

1933

I Have Lived

19338.0

Bombs and Banknotes

19177.0

Honeymoon Limited

19355.8

Rose-Marie

19287.0

The Devil's Hand

19614.6

While Paris Sleeps

19326.7

$1,000 a Touchdown

19393.7

The Charmer

19257.0

The Small Bachelor

19278.0

The Wicked Darling

19195.6

Crook's Tour

193310.0

I Don't Remember

19355.0

Don Juan's 3 Nights

19263.7

Borrowed Finery

1925

Secrets

19246.0

Under Two Flags

191510.0

Lorna Doone

19226.3

Guilty Parents

19345.6

Robes of Sin

19248.0

The Concert

192110.0

Seeing's Believing

19227.0

Hurricane's Gal

19228.0

Live and Learn

19303.3

Occasionally Yours

19208.0

Cappy Ricks Returns

19356.3

The Chases of Pimple Street

19347.3

Dizzy Daddies

19263.8

The Price of a Good Time

1917

You Never Know

192210.0

Laughing Ladies

19258.0

Ship of Souls

19255.0