Gertrude Astor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1887-11-09
Place of Birth
Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Gertrude Astor
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.
Also Known For
Deep in My Heart
Dec 09, 1954
Easy Living
Jul 16, 1937
The Virgin Queen
Jul 22, 1955
Frozen Justice
Oct 13, 1929
Her Mad Bargain
Dec 12, 1921
The Fatal Warning
Feb 15, 1929
The Scarlet Crystal
Feb 05, 1917
Hollywood
Aug 19, 1923
The Price of a Good Time
Nov 04, 1917
Under Two Flags
Jul 21, 1915
The Lash of Power
Nov 05, 1917
What Am I Bid?
Apr 14, 1919
The Wolf Man
Dec 12, 1941
The Girl Who Won Out
Oct 08, 1917
The Old Soak
Oct 11, 1926
The Ninety and Nine
Dec 17, 1922
Bombs and Banknotes
Jan 02, 1917
The Butter and Egg Man
Sep 22, 1928
The Family Group
Feb 18, 1928
Chasing Husbands
Dec 22, 1928
Skin Deep
Sep 01, 1922
The Wanters
Nov 26, 1923
The Chases of Pimple Street
Dec 22, 1934
The Devil's Hand
Sep 13, 1961
Come Clean
Sep 02, 1931
The Strong Man
Nov 19, 1926
My Man Godfrey
Oct 11, 1957
Wine, Women and Song
Mar 27, 1933
The Plumber and the Lady
Mar 31, 1933
Loot
Oct 06, 1919
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Nov 04, 1927
Rupert of Hentzau
Jul 15, 1923
Fort Osage
Feb 10, 1952
The Old West
Sep 29, 1952
Through The Back Door
May 05, 1921
Don Juan's 3 Nights
Sep 04, 1926
Here Comes Trouble
Mar 15, 1948
You Never Know
Dec 10, 1922
The Wicked Darling
Dec 25, 1919
Reap the Wild Wind
Mar 26, 1942
The Drunkard
Apr 03, 1935
Bucking Broadway
Dec 24, 1917
Stage Struck
Nov 16, 1925
Broadway or Bust
Jun 09, 1924
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
Nov 30, 1924
Wife Tamers
Mar 25, 1926
Be Yourself!
Feb 07, 1930
All Over Town
Aug 09, 1937
Lorna Doone
Oct 01, 1922
The Best Years of Our Lives
Dec 25, 1946
The Kentucky Derby
Dec 04, 1922
High Hats and Low Brows
Jul 10, 1932
Live and Learn
Jun 15, 1930
Carnival Lady
Nov 11, 1933
Rich Relations
Feb 01, 1937
Running Hollywood
Jan 27, 1932
Wedding Belles
Jun 24, 1934
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Apr 09, 1966
Kiki
Apr 04, 1926
Dizzy Daddies
Mar 14, 1926
All in a Night's Work
Mar 15, 1961
They Never Come Back
May 10, 1932
Dames Ahoy
Feb 09, 1930
Untamed
Nov 23, 1929
The Best of Everything
Oct 09, 1959
I Have Lived
Jun 15, 1933
I Don't Remember
Dec 25, 1935
The Small Bachelor
Nov 06, 1927
Frisco Lil
Mar 13, 1942
Kentucky Pride
Sep 06, 1925
Secrets
Mar 24, 1924
Synthetic Sin
Jan 06, 1929
The Boy Friend
Aug 14, 1926
Dragonwyck
Apr 19, 1946
In Walked Charley
Apr 22, 1932
The Cat and the Canary
Aug 20, 1927
While Paris Sleeps
May 08, 1932
Calcutta
Dec 20, 1946
The Branding Iron
Oct 31, 1920
Beyond the Rocks
May 07, 1922
Behind the Front
Feb 22, 1926
Wells Fargo
Dec 31, 1937
The Llano Kid
Dec 08, 1939
Sergeant Rutledge
May 25, 1960
A Star Is Born
Oct 01, 1954
Poker Widows
Sep 13, 1931
Here Comes the Band
Aug 30, 1935
All About Eve
Nov 09, 1950
Northern Frontier
Feb 01, 1935
The Women
Sep 01, 1939
Sitting Pretty
Mar 10, 1948
Empty Saddles
Dec 20, 1936
Dust Be My Destiny
Sep 16, 1939
Oh, What a Man!
Dec 04, 1927
Ship of Wanted Men
Sep 08, 1933
Sister Kenny
Oct 10, 1946
My Dear Secretary
Nov 05, 1948
Again Pioneers
Nov 01, 1950
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Nov 27, 1945
Postal Inspector
Aug 16, 1936
Woman in Hiding
Jan 06, 1950
Monsieur Verdoux
Sep 26, 1947
The Torrent
Aug 01, 1924
Hold Back the Dawn
Sep 26, 1941
Guilty Parents
Apr 01, 1934
Cappy Ricks Returns
Sep 25, 1935
Western Limited
Aug 05, 1932
Tell 'Em Nothing
Oct 16, 1926
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Apr 13, 1962
Ginsberg the Great
Nov 26, 1927
Five and Ten Cent Annie
May 26, 1928
Twin Beds
Jul 14, 1929
The Scarlet Claw
May 18, 1944
The Charmer
Apr 20, 1925
Angel Face
Jan 02, 1953
Misbehaving Husbands
Dec 20, 1940
Sunset Boulevard
Aug 10, 1950
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Apr 25, 1940
Scared Stiff
Apr 27, 1953
It's in the Air
Oct 10, 1935
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Feb 11, 1938
The Tingler
Jul 29, 1959
Cheyenne's Pal
Aug 13, 1917
Two Rode Together
May 24, 1961
Scandal Sheet
Jan 16, 1952
Around the World in Eighty Days
Oct 17, 1956
The Reckless Sex
Feb 05, 1925
Daddy Long Legs
May 05, 1955
Girls of the Big House
Nov 02, 1945
Border Brigands
May 31, 1935
3 Godfathers
Dec 31, 1948
Lost Canyon
Dec 18, 1942
Tassels in the Air
Apr 01, 1938
Idaho
Mar 10, 1943
Honeymoon Limited
Jul 01, 1935
The Avenging Rider
May 20, 1943
The Kansan
Sep 10, 1943
Paula
May 15, 1952
San Francisco
Jun 26, 1936
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Jun 11, 1964
Two Weeks Off
May 11, 1929
The Taxi Dancer
Feb 05, 1927
Polly Redhead
Feb 09, 1917
When Worlds Collide
Sep 14, 1951
Flaming Gold
Sep 28, 1932
A Place in the Sun
Jun 12, 1951
The Sound of Music
Mar 29, 1965
The Fall of Eve
Jun 17, 1929
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Apr 29, 1923
Music Man
Sep 05, 1948
The Cheerful Fraud
Dec 27, 1926
$1,000 a Touchdown
Oct 04, 1939
A Woman of Affairs
Dec 15, 1928
Fun on a Weekend
May 15, 1947
Leave Her to Heaven
Dec 25, 1945
Bondage
Oct 17, 1917
The Devil's Pay Day
Jan 29, 1917
The Brazen Beauty
Sep 09, 1918
The Rescue
Jul 23, 1917
The Little Orphan
Jun 18, 1917
Bunco Squad
Sep 01, 1950
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Sep 19, 1948
Hurricane's Gal
Jul 01, 1922
Robes of Sin
Dec 01, 1924
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Sep 01, 1945
The Concert
Feb 20, 1921
No More Ladies
Jun 14, 1935
Moontide
May 29, 1942
Seeing's Believing
May 01, 1922
The File on Thelma Jordon
Nov 04, 1949
Rose-Marie
Feb 11, 1928
Hell Bound
May 01, 1931
Wichita
Jul 03, 1955
Thunder on the Hill
Oct 17, 1951
Great Guy
Dec 01, 1936
The Wall Flower
May 01, 1922
The Climax
Oct 20, 1944
The Silent Watcher
Oct 05, 1924
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Oct 22, 1922
Crook's Tour
Sep 23, 1933
Weird Woman
Mar 01, 1944
Satan in Sables
Oct 14, 1925
The Female Animal
Jan 22, 1958
Caged
May 19, 1950
The Horse Soldiers
Jun 11, 1959
Crack-Up
Sep 06, 1946
The Country Beyond
Oct 17, 1926
I'll Take Vanilla
May 05, 1934
Manhattan Monkey Business
Nov 09, 1935
Laughing Ladies
Jan 01, 1925
Washee Ironee
Nov 13, 1934
Borrowed Finery
Oct 01, 1925
The Doolins of Oklahoma
May 27, 1949
Dick Tracy
Dec 01, 1945
The Merry Widow
Sep 05, 1952
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Jan 15, 1928
Lightning Lariats
Jan 30, 1927
Alice Adams
Bad Boy
Oct 25, 1935
All's Swell on the Ocean
Aug 18, 1924
Wives Never Know
Sep 18, 1936
Ship of Souls
Dec 20, 1925
Occasionally Yours
Sep 19, 1920
The Delicious Little Devil
May 12, 1919
Apache Drums
Apr 01, 1951
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Mar 13, 1918
My Mother the Car
Sep 14, 1965
