Gertrude Astor
Age: N/A | From: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Gertrude Aster , Gertrude Irene Eyster
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 117
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Sound of Music
(1965) Party Guest (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
(1950) Courtier (uncredited)
Caged
(1950) Inmate (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962) Townswoman (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
(1960) Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Angel Face
(1953) Matron (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers
(1959) Townswoman
A Place in the Sun
(1951) Bit Part (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Townswoman | |
| 1965 | N/A | |
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| 1964 | Denver Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| 1962 | Townswoman (uncredited) | |
| 1961 | The Elderly Cultist | |
| Mrs. Wringle (uncredited) | ||
| Customer (uncredited) | ||
| 1960 | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) | |
| 1959 | Leading Woman in Play (uncredited) | |
| Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited) | ||
| Townswoman | ||
| 1958 | Actress on Movie Set (uncredited) | |
| 1957 | Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | Extra (uncredited) | |
| 1955 | Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group | |
| Saloon Madam (uncredited) | ||
| Art Gallery Patron (uncredited) | ||
| 1954 | Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) | ||
| 1953 | Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited) | |
| Matron (uncredited) | ||
| 1952 | Townswoman (uncredited) | |
| Reception Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Brown (uncredited) | ||
| Townswoman (uncredited) | ||
| Neighbor (uncredited) | ||
| 1951 | Village Woman (uncredited) | |
| Showgirl #4 | ||
| Traveler (uncredited) | ||
| Bit Part (uncredited) | ||
| 1950 | Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Jans | ||
| Club Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Courtier (uncredited) | ||
| Inmate (uncredited) | ||
| Woman in Drugstore (uncredited) | ||
| 1949 | Juror (Uncredited) | |
| Saloon Girl (uncredited) | ||
| 1948 | Saloon Girl (uncredited) | |
| Miss Gee (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Howard | ||
| N/A | ||
| Woman with Dog (uncredited) | ||
| Townswoman (uncredited) | ||
| 1947 | Garden Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| Party Guest (Uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | |
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Doctor (uncredited) | ||
| Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited) | ||
| Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| 1945 | Prison Matron (uncredited) | |
| Woman (uncredited) | ||
| Eva Tanguay (uncredited) | ||
| Railroad Matron | ||
| Bit Part (uncredited) | ||
| 1944 | Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| 1943 | Blonde Townswoman | |
| Martha | ||
| Party Guest | ||
| 1942 | Mrs. Anson | |
| Woman | ||
| Ball Guest (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1941 | Townswoman (uncredited) | |
| Young Woman in Bar (uncredited) | ||
| 1940 | Gossiping Friend | |
| Extra (uncredited) | ||
| 1939 | Saloon Hostess | |
| McGlen Wife (uncredited) | ||
| Dame (uncredited) | ||
| Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| 1938 | Louella Pindell (uncredited) | |
| Woman (uncredited) | ||
| 1937 | Pioneer Woman | |
| Mamie | ||
| Saleswoman (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1936 | Eloise Hayes | |
| Party Guest (Uncredited) | ||
| Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited) | ||
| Drunk's Girl (uncredited) | ||
| 1935 | Sophie Glick | |
| Gwendolyn | ||
| (uncredited) | ||
| Speaker (uncredited) | ||
| Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | ||
| Lady Devonshire | ||
| Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | ||
| Big Six -Saloon Girl | ||
| Peggy | ||
| Mae | ||
| 1934 | Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited) | |
| Woman at Party | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mom | ||
| Marie | ||
| 1933 | Zandra, Fortune Teller | |
| Mrs Dorigan | ||
| Vera | ||
| Harriet Naisson | ||
| Mrs. Otto Mauser | ||
| Jennie Tilson | ||
| 1932 | Escort Service Madam | |
| Mrs. Winters | ||
| Mrs. Billingsgate | ||
| Kate | ||
| N/A | ||
| Gertrude Henderson | ||
| Gertrude Astor | ||
| 1931 | Mrs. Thomas Regan | |
| Mrs. Hardy | ||
| Rosie | ||
| 1930 | Mrs. Brown | |
| The Blonde | ||
| Lillian | ||
| 1929 | Mrs. Mason | |
| Moosehide Kate | ||
| Mrs. Solari | ||
| Mrs. Ford | ||
| Agnes | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sheila Kelly | ||
| 1928 | N/A | |
| Party Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Fanny Lehman | ||
| Blonde | ||
| N/A | ||
| Wanda | ||
| 1927 | The Bandit | |
| Sappho | ||
| Fanny | ||
| Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited) | ||
| Cecily | ||
| Kitty Lane | ||
| 1926 | Rose | |
| Lily de Broadway | ||
| Mrs. Andrews | ||
| Mrs. Gladstone | ||
| Sylvia De Costa | ||
| Baroness von Minden | ||
| Paulette Mascar | ||
| Mrs. Barry | ||
| A Former Flame | ||
| French barmaid | ||
| Mrs. White | ||
| 1925 | Lillian Lyons | |
| Dolores Sierra | ||
| Maisie | ||
| Mrs. Beaumont | ||
| Bertha Sedgwick | ||
| Lucile Dupré | ||
| The Married Man's Wife | ||
| 1924 | N/A | |
| 'Kansas' Lou | ||
| Mrs. Steele | ||
| The Cast-Off | ||
| Mrs. Dean Smythe | ||
| Mrs. Manwaring | ||
| 1923 | Mrs. Van Pelt | |
| Gertrude Astor | ||
| Paula | ||
| Edith Cortlandt | ||
| 1922 | Kate Van Dyke | |
| Miriam Folansbee | ||
| Helen Gordon | ||
| Alice Granville | ||
| Countess of Brandir (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Carlson | ||
| Phyllis Fairfield | ||
| Morella Winmarleigh | ||
| Aunt Sue | ||
| Pamela Shiel | ||
| 1921 | Ruth Beresford | |
| Louise Reeves | ||
| Eva | ||
| 1920 | Betty Morena | |
| 1919 | Adele Hoyt | |
| Lady Gwendolyn | ||
| Diana Newlands | ||
| 1918 | Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael | |
| 1917 | Gladys | |
| Phyllis Ward | ||
| Mis Schyler | ||
| Eugenia Darth | ||
| Mrs. Walsh | ||
| Dancehall girl | ||
| Mrs. Hendricks | ||
| Emmeline Warren | ||
| Lady Caroline | ||
| Helen Forbes | ||
| Hazel Davidson | ||
| His Daughter | ||
| 1915 | Venetia | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
