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Gertrude Astor‌

Gender

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Birthday

calendar1887-11-09

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Gertrude Astor

Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Gertrude Astor

Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1887-11-09

Popularity

star2.4

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.

Movie Credits

Deep in My Heart

Deep in My Heart‌
star6.8
calendar 1954

Easy Living

Easy Living‌
star7.0
calendar 1937

The Virgin Queen

The Virgin Queen‌
star7.1
calendar 1955

Frozen Justice

Frozen Justice‌
star1.0
calendar 1929

Her Mad Bargain

Her Mad Bargain‌
star0.0
calendar 1921

The Fatal Warning

The Fatal Warning‌
star3.0
calendar 1929

The Scarlet Crystal

The Scarlet Crystal‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

Hollywood

Hollywood‌
star7.0
calendar 1923

The Price of a Good Time

The Price of a Good Time‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

Under Two Flags

Under Two Flags‌
star0.0
calendar 1915

The Lash of Power

The Lash of Power‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

What Am I Bid?

What Am I Bid?‌
star0.0
calendar 1919

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man‌
star7.0
calendar 1941

The Girl Who Won Out

The Girl Who Won Out‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

The Old Soak

The Old Soak‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

The Ninety and Nine

The Ninety and Nine‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Bombs and Banknotes

Bombs and Banknotes‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

The Butter and Egg Man

The Butter and Egg Man‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

The Family Group

The Family Group‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Chasing Husbands

Chasing Husbands‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Skin Deep

Skin Deep‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Wanters

The Wanters‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

The Chases of Pimple Street

The Chases of Pimple Street‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

The Devil's Hand

The Devil's Hand‌
star4.4
calendar 1961

Come Clean

Come Clean‌
star7.2
calendar 1931

The Strong Man

The Strong Man‌
star6.1
calendar 1926

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey‌
star6.3
calendar 1957

Wine, Women and Song

Wine, Women and Song‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

The Plumber and the Lady

The Plumber and the Lady‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Loot

Loot‌
star0.0
calendar 1919

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin‌
star6.9
calendar 1927

Rupert of Hentzau

Rupert of Hentzau‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Fort Osage

Fort Osage‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

The Old West

The Old West‌
star5.0
calendar 1952

Through The Back Door

Through The Back Door‌
star6.0
calendar 1921

Don Juan's 3 Nights

Don Juan's 3 Nights‌
star1.0
calendar 1926

Here Comes Trouble

Here Comes Trouble‌
star4.6
calendar 1948

You Never Know

You Never Know‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Wicked Darling

The Wicked Darling‌
star5.2
calendar 1919

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind‌
star6.5
calendar 1942

The Drunkard

The Drunkard‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Bucking Broadway

Bucking Broadway‌
star5.5
calendar 1917

Stage Struck

Stage Struck‌
star6.4
calendar 1925

Broadway or Bust

Broadway or Bust‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

Wife Tamers

Wife Tamers‌
star6.0
calendar 1926

Be Yourself!

Be Yourself!‌
star5.0
calendar 1930

All Over Town

All Over Town‌
star7.2
calendar 1937

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone‌
star6.3
calendar 1922

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives‌
star7.8
calendar 1946

The Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby‌
star5.0
calendar 1922

High Hats and Low Brows

High Hats and Low Brows‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Live and Learn

Live and Learn‌
star1.0
calendar 1930

Carnival Lady

Carnival Lady‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Rich Relations

Rich Relations‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Running Hollywood

Running Hollywood‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Wedding Belles

Wedding Belles‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter‌
star4.1
calendar 1966

Kiki

Kiki‌
star7.0
calendar 1926

Dizzy Daddies

Dizzy Daddies‌
star3.5
calendar 1926

All in a Night's Work

All in a Night's Work‌
star5.9
calendar 1961

They Never Come Back

They Never Come Back‌
star5.5
calendar 1932

Dames Ahoy

Dames Ahoy‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Untamed

Untamed‌
star5.8
calendar 1929

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything‌
star6.4
calendar 1959

I Have Lived

I Have Lived‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

I Don't Remember

I Don't Remember‌
star2.0
calendar 1935

The Small Bachelor

The Small Bachelor‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Frisco Lil

Frisco Lil‌
star8.0
calendar 1942

Kentucky Pride

Kentucky Pride‌
star5.9
calendar 1925

Secrets

Secrets‌
star5.5
calendar 1924

Synthetic Sin

Synthetic Sin‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck‌
star6.7
calendar 1946

In Walked Charley

In Walked Charley‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary‌
star6.8
calendar 1927

While Paris Sleeps

While Paris Sleeps‌
star5.8
calendar 1932

Calcutta

Calcutta‌
star6.2
calendar 1946

The Branding Iron

The Branding Iron‌
star0.0
calendar 1920

Beyond the Rocks

Beyond the Rocks‌
star6.2
calendar 1922

Behind the Front

Behind the Front‌
star6.0
calendar 1926

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo‌
star4.9
calendar 1937

The Llano Kid

The Llano Kid‌
star0.0
calendar 1939

Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge‌
star7.1
calendar 1960

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born‌
star7.1
calendar 1954

Poker Widows

Poker Widows‌
star0.0
calendar 1931

Here Comes the Band

Here Comes the Band‌
star5.0
calendar 1935

All About Eve

All About Eve‌
star8.1
calendar 1950

Northern Frontier

Northern Frontier‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

The Women

The Women‌
star7.1
calendar 1939

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty‌
star7.1
calendar 1948

Empty Saddles

Empty Saddles‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

Oh, What a Man!

Oh, What a Man!‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Ship of Wanted Men

Ship of Wanted Men‌
star2.0
calendar 1933

Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny‌
star6.5
calendar 1946

My Dear Secretary

My Dear Secretary‌
star5.9
calendar 1948

Again Pioneers

Again Pioneers‌
star3.5
calendar 1950

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

Postal Inspector

Postal Inspector‌
star6.3
calendar 1936

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Hiding‌
star6.2
calendar 1950

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux‌
star7.7
calendar 1947

The Torrent

The Torrent‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn‌
star6.6
calendar 1941

Guilty Parents

Guilty Parents‌
star4.8
calendar 1934

Cappy Ricks Returns

Cappy Ricks Returns‌
star4.5
calendar 1935

Western Limited

Western Limited‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Tell 'Em Nothing

Tell 'Em Nothing‌
star4.2
calendar 1926

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance‌
star7.8
calendar 1962

Ginsberg the Great

Ginsberg the Great‌
star0.0
calendar 1927

Five and Ten Cent Annie

Five and Ten Cent Annie‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

Twin Beds

Twin Beds‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Scarlet Claw

The Scarlet Claw‌
star6.9
calendar 1944

The Charmer

The Charmer‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Angel Face

Angel Face‌
star7.1
calendar 1953

Misbehaving Husbands

Misbehaving Husbands‌
star5.2
calendar 1940

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard‌
star8.3
calendar 1950

The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Doctor Takes a Wife‌
star6.9
calendar 1940

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff‌
star6.5
calendar 1953

It's in the Air

It's in the Air‌
star5.0
calendar 1935

The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938‌
star5.9
calendar 1938

The Tingler

The Tingler‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

Cheyenne's Pal

Cheyenne's Pal‌
star4.5
calendar 1917

Two Rode Together

Two Rode Together‌
star6.4
calendar 1961

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet‌
star7.0
calendar 1952

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days‌
star6.6
calendar 1956

The Reckless Sex

The Reckless Sex‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs‌
star6.3
calendar 1955

Girls of the Big House

Girls of the Big House‌
star6.0
calendar 1945

Border Brigands

Border Brigands‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers‌
star6.8
calendar 1948

Lost Canyon

Lost Canyon‌
star5.0
calendar 1942

Tassels in the Air

Tassels in the Air‌
star6.5
calendar 1938

Idaho

Idaho‌
star5.7
calendar 1943

Honeymoon Limited

Honeymoon Limited‌
star6.0
calendar 1935

The Avenging Rider

The Avenging Rider‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

The Kansan

The Kansan‌
star5.2
calendar 1943

Paula

Paula‌
star6.5
calendar 1952

San Francisco

San Francisco‌
star6.6
calendar 1936

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Unsinkable Molly Brown‌
star5.6
calendar 1964

Two Weeks Off

Two Weeks Off‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Taxi Dancer

The Taxi Dancer‌
star6.5
calendar 1927

Polly Redhead

Polly Redhead‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide‌
star6.3
calendar 1951

Flaming Gold

Flaming Gold‌
star5.5
calendar 1932

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun‌
star7.3
calendar 1951

The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music‌
star7.7
calendar 1965

The Fall of Eve

The Fall of Eve‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

The Ne'er-Do-Well

The Ne'er-Do-Well‌
star0.0
calendar 1923

Music Man

Music Man‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

The Cheerful Fraud

The Cheerful Fraud‌
star4.0
calendar 1926

$1,000 a Touchdown

$1,000 a Touchdown‌
star2.0
calendar 1939

A Woman of Affairs

A Woman of Affairs‌
star6.6
calendar 1928

Fun on a Weekend

Fun on a Weekend‌
star7.0
calendar 1947

Leave Her to Heaven

Leave Her to Heaven‌
star7.4
calendar 1945

Bondage

Bondage‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

The Devil's Pay Day

The Devil's Pay Day‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

The Brazen Beauty

The Brazen Beauty‌
star0.0
calendar 1918

The Rescue

The Rescue‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

The Little Orphan

The Little Orphan‌
star0.0
calendar 1917

Bunco Squad

Bunco Squad‌
star5.9
calendar 1950

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All‌
star6.0
calendar 1948

Hurricane's Gal

Hurricane's Gal‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Robes of Sin

Robes of Sin‌
star6.0
calendar 1924

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Swingin' on a Rainbow‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

The Concert

The Concert‌
star0.0
calendar 1921

No More Ladies

No More Ladies‌
star5.1
calendar 1935

Moontide

Moontide‌
star6.3
calendar 1942

Seeing's Believing

Seeing's Believing‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon‌
star6.5
calendar 1949

Rose-Marie

Rose-Marie‌
star5.0
calendar 1928

Hell Bound

Hell Bound‌
star0.0
calendar 1931

Wichita

Wichita‌
star6.3
calendar 1955

Thunder on the Hill

Thunder on the Hill‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Great Guy

Great Guy‌
star6.2
calendar 1936

The Wall Flower

The Wall Flower‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

The Climax

The Climax‌
star5.4
calendar 1944

The Silent Watcher

The Silent Watcher‌
star0.0
calendar 1924

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew‌
star0.0
calendar 1922

Crook's Tour

Crook's Tour‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Weird Woman

Weird Woman‌
star6.1
calendar 1944

Satan in Sables

Satan in Sables‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

The Female Animal

The Female Animal‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

Caged

Caged‌
star7.1
calendar 1950

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

Crack-Up

Crack-Up‌
star5.6
calendar 1946

The Country Beyond

The Country Beyond‌
star0.0
calendar 1926

I'll Take Vanilla

I'll Take Vanilla‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

Manhattan Monkey Business

Manhattan Monkey Business‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Laughing Ladies

Laughing Ladies‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

Washee Ironee

Washee Ironee‌
star6.8
calendar 1934

Borrowed Finery

Borrowed Finery‌
star0.0
calendar 1925

The Doolins of Oklahoma

The Doolins of Oklahoma‌
star6.8
calendar 1949

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy‌
star5.2
calendar 1945

Tv Credits

My Mother the Car

My Mother the Car‌
star3.6
calendar 1965

I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy‌
star8.0
calendar 1951