Gertrude Astor
Acting
🎂 1887-11-09
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.
Cast credits(208)
Showgirl #4
1951
Party Guest (uncredited)
1965
Courtier (uncredited)
1950
Blonde Townswoman
1943
Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
1961
Extra (uncredited)
1956
Traveler (uncredited)
1951
Townswoman (uncredited)
1962
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1946
Townswoman (uncredited)
1959
Townswoman (uncredited)
1941
Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
1955
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1960
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1935
Townswoman
1966
Bit Part (uncredited)
1951
1965
Inmate (uncredited)
1950
Lillian Lyons
1925
Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
1959
Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
1950
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948
The Elderly Cultist
1961
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1954
Martha
1943
Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
1950
Prison Matron (uncredited)
1945
Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Woman with Dog (uncredited)
1948
1944
1942
Party Guest (Uncredited)
1947
Customer (uncredited)
1961
Gertrude Astor
1923
Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
1953
Eva
1921
Nurse (uncredited)
1946
Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Anson
1942
Alice Granville
1922
Juror (Uncredited)
1949
Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
1947
Mrs. Billingsgate
1932
Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
Party Guest (Uncredited)
1936
Lady Devonshire
1935
Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
1964
Woman (uncredited)
1938
Club Patron (uncredited)
1950
Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
1955
Emmeline Warren
1917
Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
1958
Gertrude Astor
1932
Mrs. Steele
1924
Matron (uncredited)
1953
Wanda
1928
Escort Service Madam
1932
Townswoman (uncredited)
1951
Saloon Madam (uncredited)
1955
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Jans
1950
Reception Guest (uncredited)
1952
Doctor (uncredited)
1946
Party Guest (uncredited)
1957
Helen Gordon
1922
1948
Village Woman (uncredited)
1951
Extra (uncredited)
1940
Fanny Lehman
1928
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1949
Saleswoman (uncredited)
1937
Pioneer Woman
1937
Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
1936
Zandra, Fortune Teller
1933
1937
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
1959
Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
1954
Neighbor (uncredited)
1952
Venetia
1915
Party Guest
1943
Moosehide Kate
1929
1935
French barmaid
1926
Cecily
1927
Miss Gee (uncredited)
1948
Mona
1920
Bit Part (uncredited)
1945
Mae
1935
Peggy
1935
1932
Girl
1927
Dame (uncredited)
1939
Gossiping Friend
1940
Kitty Lane
1927
Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
1936
Townswoman (uncredited)
1948
Mrs. Dean Smythe
1924
1934
Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
1946
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1946
Mrs. Beaumont
1925
Mrs. Otto Mauser
1933
Railroad Matron
1945
Gwendolyn
1935
Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
Mrs. Mason
1929
The Married Man's Wife
1925
Baroness von Minden
1926
Mrs. Solari
1929
Paulette Mascar
1926
Harriet Naisson
1933
Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
1944
Mrs. Howard
1948
Lillian
1930
(uncredited)
1935
Woman (uncredited)
1942
Morella Winmarleigh
1922
Mrs. Hardy
1931
Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
1936
Party Guest (uncredited)
1944
Mamie
1937
Eloise Hayes
1936
McGlen Wife (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Barry
1926
Blonde
1928
1929
Stella Carter
1918
Sheila Kelly
1929
Lily de Broadway
1926
1924
Woman (uncredited)
1945
Helen Forbes
1917
'Kansas' Lou
1924
Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1941
Party Guest (uncredited)
1928
Mrs. Winters
1932
Mrs Dorigan
1933
Sappho
1927
Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
1922
Paulette
1928
Mrs. Ford
1929
Aunt Sue
1922
Louise Reeves
1921
1928
Woman at Party
1934
Vera
1933
Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
1919
Miriam Folansbee
1922
Paula
1923
Mrs. Van Pelt
1923
Doris Barnes
1925
Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
1927
Mrs. Carlson
1922
Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
1952
Jennie Tilson
1933
Sylvia De Costa
1926
Lady Gwendolyn
1919
Mrs. White
1926
Mis Schyler
1917
Marie
1934
Kate Van Dyke
1922
Hazel Davidson
1917
Mrs. Andrews
1926
Agnes
1929
Adele Hoyt
1919
Big Six -Saloon Girl
1935
Betty Morena
1920
Fanny
1927
Kate
1932
Lucile Dupré
1925
Lady Caroline
1917
1924
Edith Cortlandt
1923
The Bandit
1927
Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
1934
Gladys (uncredited)
1917
Rosie
1931
The Cast-Off
1924
Mrs. Manwaring
1924
Mildred Palmer
1923
Mom
1934
The Blonde
1930
Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
1945
1928
Mrs. Thomas Regan
1931
Mrs. Hendricks
1917
Eugenia Darth
1917
Louella Pindell (uncredited)
1938
Saloon Hostess
1939
Rose
1926
Sophie Glick
1935
Phyllis Ward
1917
Speaker (uncredited)
1935
Bertha Sedgwick
1925
Mrs. Brown
1930
Dancehall girl
1917
Gertrude Henderson
1932
Mrs. Gladstone
1926
Mrs. Walsh
1917
Dolores Sierra
1925
Pamela Shiel
1922
Maisie
1925
Phyllis Fairfield
1922
A Former Flame
1926
Diana Newlands
1919
Ruth Beresford
1921
Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
1918
His Daughter
1917