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(207)
Showgirl #4
1951
Townswoman (uncredited)
1962
1965
Party Guest (uncredited)
1965
Gertrude Astor
1923
Extra (uncredited)
1956
Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
1950
Courtier (uncredited)
1950
Pioneer Woman
1937
Townswoman (uncredited)
1959
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1954
Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1946
Townswoman (uncredited)
1941
Prison Matron (uncredited)
1945
Bit Part (uncredited)
1951
Juror (Uncredited)
1949
1944
Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
1947
Inmate (uncredited)
1950
Party Guest (Uncredited)
1936
Traveler (uncredited)
1951
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
1959
Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942
Miss Gee (uncredited)
1948
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948
Neighbor (uncredited)
1952
Matron (uncredited)
1953
Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
1936
Customer (uncredited)
1961
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1960
Cecily
1927
Townswoman
1966
Woman (uncredited)
1945
The Elderly Cultist
1961
Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
1955
Saloon Madam (uncredited)
1955
Party Guest
1943
Reception Guest (uncredited)
1952
Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
1961
Saleswoman (uncredited)
1937
Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
1964
Party Guest (uncredited)
1957
Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
1954
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1949
Doctor (uncredited)
1946
Nurse (uncredited)
1946
Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
1953
Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
1936
Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
1946
Townswoman (uncredited)
1951
Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
1944
Townswoman (uncredited)
1948
Woman (uncredited)
1942
Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
1955
Blonde Townswoman
1943
Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1941
Dame (uncredited)
1939
Extra (uncredited)
1940
Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
1959
Party Guest (Uncredited)
1947
Helen Gordon
1922
Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
1958
Gertrude Astor
1932
French barmaid
1926
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1946
Village Woman (uncredited)
1951
(uncredited)
1935
Mae
1935
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1935
Railroad Matron
1945
1924
Party Guest (uncredited)
1928
Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
1950
Marie
1934
Party Guest (uncredited)
1944
Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
1919
Lillian Lyons
1925
Lillian
1930
Martha
1943
Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
1945
Mrs. Van Pelt
1923
Wanda
1928
Woman with Dog (uncredited)
1948
Club Patron (uncredited)
1950
Agnes
1929
Big Six -Saloon Girl
1935
Morella Winmarleigh
1922
Gossiping Friend
1940
Mrs. Hardy
1931
1935
Saloon Hostess
1939
Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
Escort Service Madam
1932
Gladys (uncredited)
1917
Rosie
1931
Mrs. Mason
1929
McGlen Wife (uncredited)
1939
Lily de Broadway
1926
Woman (uncredited)
1938
Mrs. Barry
1926
Woman at Party
1934
Alice Granville
1922
Mrs. Anson
1942
Lady Devonshire
1935
1942
Kitty Lane
1927
Mamie
1937
Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
1936
Fanny Lehman
1928
Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
1952
Eugenia Darth
1917
Blonde
1928
Gertrude Henderson
1932
Mrs. Ford
1929
Louise Reeves
1921
Mrs. Thomas Regan
1931
Venetia
1915
1948
Kate
1932
The Cast-Off
1924
Mrs Dorigan
1933
Mis Schyler
1917
Mrs. Winters
1932
Rose
1926
Lady Gwendolyn
1919
Edith Cortlandt
1923
1924
Mrs. Howard
1948
Bit Part (uncredited)
1945
'Kansas' Lou
1924
Sophie Glick
1935
Jennie Tilson
1933
Vera
1933
Sheila Kelly
1929
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1935
Paulette Mascar
1926
1932
Mrs. Walsh
1917
Betty Morena
1920
Aunt Sue
1922
1937
1928
Adele Hoyt
1919
Ruth Beresford
1921
Mrs. Beaumont
1925
Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
1927
Mrs. Steele
1924
Baroness von Minden
1926
Speaker (uncredited)
1935
Moosehide Kate
1929
Girl
1927
Diana Newlands
1919
Sappho
1927
Mildred Palmer
The Blonde
1930
Peggy
1935
Eva
1921
Mrs. Solari
1929
Kate Van Dyke
1922
Mrs. Jans
1950
Mrs. Hendricks
1917
Lucile Dupré
1925
Mrs. Manwaring
1924
1934
Dancehall girl
1917
Mrs. White
1926
1928
Mrs. Carlson
1922
Phyllis Fairfield
1922
Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
1934
Paulette
1928
Louella Pindell (uncredited)
1938
Gwendolyn
1935
Mrs. Brown
1930
Mrs. Billingsgate
1932
Mrs. Andrews
1926
Fanny
1927
Zandra, Fortune Teller
1933
Emmeline Warren
1917
Mrs. Dean Smythe
1924
Paula
1923
Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
1922
Eloise Hayes
1936
Sylvia De Costa
1926
Lady Caroline
1917
Doris Barnes
1925
Mrs. Gladstone
1926
Helen Forbes
1917
The Bandit
1927
Hazel Davidson
1917
Mrs. Otto Mauser
1933
1929
Pamela Shiel
1922
The Married Man's Wife
1925
His Daughter
1917
A Former Flame
1926
Mona
1920
Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
1918
Harriet Naisson
1933
Miriam Folansbee
1922
Maisie
1925
Mom
1934
Bertha Sedgwick
1925
Dolores Sierra
1925
Phyllis Ward
1917