8.5
8.5
Hollywood
1923
as Gertrude Astor
Gertrude Astor
Also known as: Gertrude Eyster, Gertrude Irene Eyster, Gertrude Irene Astor
Acting
Born:November 9, 1887
Died:November 9, 1977(aged 90)
Birthplace:Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (185 movies)
8.3
8.3
Sunset Boulevard
1950
as Courtier (uncredited)
8.0
8.0
Frisco Lil
1942
7.4
7.4
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
7.3
7.3
Kiki
1926
as Paulette Mascar
7.3
7.3
A Place in the Sun
1951
as Bit Part (uncredited)
7.2
7.2
The Virgin Queen
1955
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
7.1
7.1
Caged
1950
as Inmate (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
A Star Is Born
1954
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
Come Clean
1931
as Mrs. Hardy
7.1
7.1
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
Angel Face
1953
as Matron (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Sitting Pretty
1948
as Townswoman (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
The Wolf Man
1941
as Townswoman (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Easy Living
1937
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Fun on a Weekend
1947
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
6.9
6.9
Scandal Sheet
1952
as Neighbor (uncredited)
6.9
6.9
The Scarlet Claw
1944
6.9
6.9
The Cat and the Canary
1927
as Cecily
6.8
6.8
Washee Ironee
1934
as Woman at Party
6.7
6.7
3 Godfathers
1948
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
Sister Kenny
1946
as Doctor (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
Dragonwyck
1946
as Nurse (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
6.6
6.6
Tassels in the Air
1938
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
Paula
1952
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
6.5
6.5
The Taxi Dancer
1927
as Kitty Lane
6.5
6.5
San Francisco
1936
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
A Woman of Affairs
1928
as Party Guest (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
Wichita
1955
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
Scared Stiff
1953
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
as Extra (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
The Tingler
1959
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
6.4
6.4
Daddy Long Legs
1955
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
The Strong Man
1926
as Lily de Broadway
6.3
6.3
Calcutta
1946
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Moontide
1942
as Woman (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Apache Drums
1951
as Townswoman (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
When Worlds Collide
1951
as Traveler (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Thunder on the Hill
1951
as Village Woman (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
The Best of Everything
1959
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
as Woman (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
The Merry Widow
1952
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Dame (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Stage Struck
1925
as Lillian Lyons
6.2
6.2
Postal Inspector
1936
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Lorna Doone
1922
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
Woman in Hiding
1950
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
6.2
6.2
All Over Town
1937
as Mamie
6.1
6.1
Through The Back Door
1921
as Louise Reeves
6.0
6.0
The Chases of Pimple Street
1934
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Music Man
1948
6.0
6.0
Robes of Sin
1924
6.0
6.0
Wife Tamers
1926
as Mrs. Barry
6.0
6.0
Girls of the Big House
1945
as Railroad Matron
6.0
6.0
Behind the Front
1926
as French barmaid
5.9
5.9
Beyond the Rocks
1922
as Morella Winmarleigh
5.9
5.9
Weird Woman
1944
as Party Guest (uncredited)
5.9
5.9
Kentucky Pride
1925
as Mrs. Beaumont
5.9
5.9
My Dear Secretary
1948
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
5.9
5.9
Bunco Squad
1950
as Club Patron (uncredited)
5.9
5.9
Untamed
1929
as Mrs. Mason
5.8
5.8
The Female Animal
1958
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
5.8
5.8
While Paris Sleeps
1932
5.7
5.7
Idaho
1943
as Party Guest
5.6
5.6
Crack-Up
1946
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
5.6
5.6
The Delicious Little Devil
1919
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
5.5
5.5
Flaming Gold
1932
as Escort Service Madam
5.5
5.5
Bucking Broadway
1917
as Gladys (uncredited)
5.5
5.5
Secrets
1924
as Mrs. Manwaring
5.5
5.5
They Never Come Back
1932
as Kate
5.4
5.4
The Kansan
1943
as Blonde Townswoman
5.3
5.3
Honeymoon Limited
1935
as Lady Devonshire
5.2
5.2
The Wicked Darling
1919
as Adele Hoyt
5.0
5.0
Dick Tracy
1945
as Woman (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Rose-Marie
1928
as Wanda
5.0
5.0
Bad Boy
1935
5.0
5.0
The Kentucky Derby
1922
as Helen Gordon
5.0
5.0
Carnival Lady
1933
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
5.0
5.0
Here Comes the Band
1935
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Be Yourself!
1930
as Lillian
4.8
4.8
Guilty Parents
1934
as Marie
4.8
4.8
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
as Gossiping Friend
4.6
4.6
No More Ladies
1935
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
4.6
4.6
Here Comes Trouble
1948
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
4.5
4.5
Cheyenne's Pal
1917
as Dancehall girl
4.5
4.5
Lost Canyon
1942
as Mrs. Anson
4.5
4.5
Cappy Ricks Returns
1935
as Speaker (uncredited)
4.4
4.4
The Devil's Hand
1961
as The Elderly Cultist
4.2
4.2
Tell 'Em Nothing
1926
as Mrs. Gladstone
4.1
4.1
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
as Townswoman
4.0
4.0
Rich Relations
1937
4.0
4.0
The Cheerful Fraud
1926
as Rose
3.5
3.5
Again Pioneers
1950
as Mrs. Jans
3.0
3.0
The Fatal Warning
1929
2.7
2.7
Dizzy Daddies
1926
as A Former Flame
2.0
2.0
I Don't Remember
1935
as Sophie Glick
2.0
2.0
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
1.7
1.7
Ship of Wanted Men
1933
as Vera
1.0
1.0
Don Juan's 3 Nights
1926
as Baroness von Minden
1.0
1.0
Frozen Justice
1929
as Moosehide Kate
1.0
1.0
Live and Learn
1930
as Mrs. Brown
1.0
1.0
Ship of Souls
1925
as Doris Barnes
Manhattan Monkey Business
1935
as Gwendolyn
The Little Orphan
1917
as Emmeline Warren
Twin Beds
1929
as Mrs. Solari
Polly Redhead
1917
as Lady Caroline
The Scarlet Crystal
1917
as Helen Forbes
The Girl Who Won Out
1917
as Mrs. Walsh
The Price of a Good Time
1917
as Mis Schyler
The Lash of Power
1917
as Phyllis Ward
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
1918
as Stella Carter
What Am I Bid?
1919
as Diana Newlands
Loot
1919
as Lady Gwendolyn
Dames Ahoy
1930
as The Blonde
Skin Deep
1922
as Mrs. Carlson
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
1928
as Paulette
The Plumber and the Lady
1933
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
Broadway or Bust
1924
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
I Have Lived
1933
as Harriet Naisson
Hurricane's Gal
1922
as Phyllis Fairfield
The Country Beyond
1926
as Mrs. Andrews
High Hats and Low Brows
1932
as Mrs. Billingsgate
The Llano Kid
1939
as Saloon Hostess
The Small Bachelor
1927
as Fanny
The Boy Friend
1926
as Mrs. White
Synthetic Sin
1929
as Sheila Kelly
In Walked Charley
1932
as Gertrude Henderson
The Branding Iron
1920
as Betty Morena
The Butter and Egg Man
1928
as Fanny Lehman
Northern Frontier
1935
as Mae
Empty Saddles
1936
as Eloise Hayes
Oh, What a Man!
1927
as The Bandit
Western Limited
1932
as Mrs. Winters
The Charmer
1925
as Bertha Sedgwick
The Avenging Rider
1943
as Martha
The Ninety and Nine
1922
as Kate Van Dyke
Border Brigands
1935
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
Two Weeks Off
1929
as Agnes
The Fall of Eve
1929
as Mrs. Ford
The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
as Edith Cortlandt
Wives Never Know
1936
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
1945
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
Satan in Sables
1925
as Dolores Sierra
Ginsberg the Great
1927
as Sappho
Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928
as Blonde
The Devil's Pay Day
1917
as Hazel Davidson
The Brazen Beauty
1918
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
The Rescue
1917
as Mrs. Hendricks
Bondage
1917
as Eugenia Darth
Her Mad Bargain
1921
as Ruth Beresford
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
1924
as 'Kansas' Lou
I'll Take Vanilla
1934
as Mom
Chasing Husbands
1928
The Wanters
1923
as Mrs. Van Pelt
Running Hollywood
1932
as Gertrude Astor
The Concert
1921
as Eva
Seeing's Believing
1922
as Aunt Sue
The Old Soak
1926
as Sylvia De Costa
Hell Bound
1931
as Rosie
The Wall Flower
1922
as Pamela Shiel
The Silent Watcher
1924
as Mrs. Steele
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
1922
as Alice Granville
Crook's Tour
1933
as Mrs Dorigan
Rupert of Hentzau
1923
as Paula
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Under Two Flags
1915
as Venetia
Bombs and Banknotes
1917
as His Daughter
The Family Group
1928
Wine, Women and Song
1933
as Jennie Tilson
You Never Know
1922
as Miriam Folansbee
The Drunkard
1935
as Peggy
Wedding Belles
1934
Poker Widows
1931
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
The Torrent
1924
as The Cast-Off
Laughing Ladies
1925
as The Married Man's Wife
The Reckless Sex
1925
as Lucile Dupré
Borrowed Finery
1925
as Maisie
Lightning Lariats
1927
as Girl
Alice Adams
1923
as Mildred Palmer
All's Swell on the Ocean
1924
Occasionally Yours
1920
as Mona
Pretty Smooth
1919
as Mrs. Hanson
The Gray Ghost
1917
as Lady Gwendolyn
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