Gertrude Astor
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1887-11-09
Day of Death
1977-11-09 (90 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
(1966)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Townswoman
(1965)
The Sound of Music
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1964)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
(1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1961)
Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
(1961)
The Devil's Hand
as The Elderly Cultist
(1961)
All in a Night's Work
as Customer (uncredited)
(1960)
Sergeant Rutledge
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
(1959)
The Horse Soldiers
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1959)
The Tingler
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
(1959)
The Best of Everything
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
(1958)
The Female Animal
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
(1957)
My Man Godfrey
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Extra (uncredited)
(1955)
Wichita
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
(1955)
Daddy Long Legs
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
(1955)
The Virgin Queen
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
(1954)
A Star Is Born
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
(1954)
Deep in My Heart
as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
(1953)
Angel Face
as Matron (uncredited)
(1953)
Scared Stiff
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
(1952)
Fort Osage
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1952)
The Merry Widow
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
(1952)
Paula
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
(1952)
The Old West
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1952)
Scandal Sheet
as Neighbor (uncredited)
(1951)
Apache Drums
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1951)
A Place in the Sun
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1951)
Thunder on the Hill
as Village Woman (uncredited)
(1951)
When Worlds Collide
as Traveler (uncredited)
(1950)
Sunset Boulevard
as Courtier (uncredited)
(1950)
Again Pioneers
as Mrs. Jans
(1950)
Caged
as Inmate (uncredited)
(1950)
Woman in Hiding
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
(1950)
All About Eve
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
(1950)
Bunco Squad
as Club Patron (uncredited)
(1949)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
(1949)
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Juror (Uncredited)
(1948)
Here Comes Trouble
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
(1948)
3 Godfathers
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
(1948)
My Dear Secretary
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
(1948)
Sitting Pretty
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1948)
(1948)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Mrs. Howard
(1947)
Monsieur Verdoux
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
(1947)
Fun on a Weekend
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
(1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
(1946)
Calcutta
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
(1946)
Dragonwyck
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1946)
Sister Kenny
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1946)
Crack-Up
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
(1945)
Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1945)
Girls of the Big House
as Railroad Matron
(1945)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
(1945)
Leave Her to Heaven
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
(1945)
Dick Tracy
as Woman (uncredited)
(1944)
(1944)
Weird Woman
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1944)
The Climax
as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
(1943)
The Kansan
as Blonde Townswoman
(1943)
The Avenging Rider
as Martha
(1943)
Idaho
as Party Guest
(1942)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
(1942)
(1942)
Lost Canyon
as Mrs. Anson
(1942)
Moontide
as Woman (uncredited)
(1941)
The Wolf Man
as Townswoman (uncredited)
(1941)
Hold Back the Dawn
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
(1940)
Misbehaving Husbands
as Gossiping Friend
(1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Extra (uncredited)
(1939)
The Women
as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
(1939)
The Llano Kid
as Saloon Hostess
(1939)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Dame (uncredited)
(1939)
$1,000 a Touchdown
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
(1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Woman (uncredited)
(1938)
Tassels in the Air
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
(1937)
(1937)
Easy Living
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
(1937)
Wells Fargo
as Pioneer Woman
(1937)
All Over Town
as Mamie
(1936)
San Francisco
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
(1936)
Great Guy
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
(1936)
Wives Never Know
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
(1936)
Postal Inspector
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
(1936)
Empty Saddles
as Eloise Hayes
(1935)
Here Comes the Band
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1935)
Honeymoon Limited
as Lady Devonshire
(1935)
Manhattan Monkey Business
as Gwendolyn
(1935)
The Drunkard
as Peggy
(1935)
It's in the Air
as (uncredited)
(1935)
No More Ladies
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
(1935)
Border Brigands
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
(1935)
Northern Frontier
as Mae
(1935)
(1935)
Cappy Ricks Returns
as Speaker (uncredited)
(1935)
I Don't Remember
as Sophie Glick
(1934)
(1934)
Washee Ironee
as Woman at Party
(1934)
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
(1934)
Guilty Parents
as Marie
(1934)
I'll Take Vanilla
as Mom
(1933)
Wine, Women and Song
as Jennie Tilson
(1933)
Crook's Tour
as Mrs Dorigan
(1933)
I Have Lived
as Harriet Naisson
(1933)
Carnival Lady
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
(1933)
The Plumber and the Lady
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
(1933)
Ship of Wanted Men
as Vera
(1932)
Running Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
(1932)
(1932)
They Never Come Back
as Kate
(1932)
High Hats and Low Brows
as Mrs. Billingsgate
(1932)
Western Limited
as Mrs. Winters
(1932)
Flaming Gold
as Escort Service Madam
(1932)
In Walked Charley
as Gertrude Henderson
(1931)
Hell Bound
as Rosie
(1931)
Come Clean
as Mrs. Hardy
(1931)
Poker Widows
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
(1930)
Live and Learn
as Mrs. Brown
(1930)
Be Yourself!
as Lillian
(1930)
Dames Ahoy
as The Blonde
(1929)
The Fall of Eve
as Mrs. Ford
(1929)
Synthetic Sin
as Sheila Kelly
(1929)
Untamed
as Mrs. Mason
(1929)
(1929)
Twin Beds
as Mrs. Solari
(1929)
Frozen Justice
as Moosehide Kate
(1929)
Two Weeks Off
as Agnes
(1928)
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
as Paulette
(1928)
Rose-Marie
as Wanda
(1928)
The Butter and Egg Man
as Fanny Lehman
(1928)
A Woman of Affairs
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Blonde
(1928)
(1928)
(1927)
The Cat and the Canary
as Cecily
(1927)
The Taxi Dancer
as Kitty Lane
(1927)
The Small Bachelor
as Fanny
(1927)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
(1927)
Lightning Lariats
as Girl
(1927)
Ginsberg the Great
as Sappho
(1927)
Oh, What a Man!
as The Bandit
(1926)
The Country Beyond
as Mrs. Andrews
(1926)
Dizzy Daddies
as A Former Flame
(1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Baroness von Minden
(1926)
Behind the Front
as French barmaid
(1926)
Tell 'Em Nothing
as Mrs. Gladstone
(1926)
Kiki
as Paulette Mascar
(1926)
The Old Soak
as Sylvia De Costa
(1926)
The Strong Man
as Lily de Broadway
(1926)
Wife Tamers
as Mrs. Barry
(1926)
The Boy Friend
as Mrs. White
(1926)
The Cheerful Fraud
as Rose
(1925)
Stage Struck
as Lillian Lyons
(1925)
The Charmer
as Bertha Sedgwick
(1925)
Ship of Souls
as Doris Barnes
(1925)
Borrowed Finery
as Maisie
(1925)
Kentucky Pride
as Mrs. Beaumont
(1925)
Laughing Ladies
as The Married Man's Wife
(1925)
The Reckless Sex
as Lucile Dupré
(1925)
Satan in Sables
as Dolores Sierra
(1924)
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
as 'Kansas' Lou
(1924)
(1924)
The Torrent
as The Cast-Off
(1924)
Secrets
as Mrs. Manwaring
(1924)
Broadway or Bust
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
(1924)
(1924)
The Silent Watcher
as Mrs. Steele
(1923)
Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
(1923)
Alice Adams
as Mildred Palmer
(1923)
Rupert of Hentzau
as Paula
(1923)
The Wanters
as Mrs. Van Pelt
(1923)
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Edith Cortlandt
(1922)
Seeing's Believing
as Aunt Sue
(1922)
The Kentucky Derby
as Helen Gordon
(1922)
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
as Alice Granville
(1922)
Hurricane's Gal
as Phyllis Fairfield
(1922)
You Never Know
as Miriam Folansbee
(1922)
Beyond the Rocks
as Morella Winmarleigh
(1922)
Lorna Doone
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
(1922)
The Ninety and Nine
as Kate Van Dyke
(1922)
Skin Deep
as Mrs. Carlson
(1922)
The Wall Flower
as Pamela Shiel
(1921)
The Concert
as Eva
(1921)
Through The Back Door
as Louise Reeves
(1921)
Her Mad Bargain
as Ruth Beresford
(1920)
The Branding Iron
as Betty Morena
(1920)
Occasionally Yours
as Mona
(1919)
The Wicked Darling
as Adele Hoyt
(1919)
What Am I Bid?
as Diana Newlands
(1919)
The Delicious Little Devil
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
(1919)
Loot
as Lady Gwendolyn
(1918)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
as Stella Carter
(1918)
The Brazen Beauty
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
(1917)
The Rescue
as Mrs. Hendricks
(1917)
The Price of a Good Time
as Mis Schyler
(1917)
The Scarlet Crystal
as Helen Forbes
(1917)
Bucking Broadway
as Gladys (uncredited)
(1917)
The Lash of Power
as Phyllis Ward
(1917)
Bombs and Banknotes
as His Daughter
(1917)
Cheyenne's Pal
as Dancehall girl
(1917)
The Little Orphan
as Emmeline Warren
(1917)
Bondage
as Eugenia Darth
(1917)
The Girl Who Won Out
as Mrs. Walsh
(1917)
The Devil's Pay Day
as Hazel Davidson
(1917)
Polly Redhead
as Lady Caroline
(1915)
Under Two Flags
as Venetia