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 womans 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 heroines 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 LaPlantes 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 1956s Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Fords 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.

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Poster movie The Virgin Queen

The Virgin Queen

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Poster movie Idaho

Idaho

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Poster movie Honeymoon Limited

Honeymoon Limited

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Poster movie The Kansan

The Kansan

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Poster movie The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers

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Movies unavailable from Gertrude Astor

Deep in My Heart

Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Easy Living

Saleswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1937

Frozen Justice

Moosehide Kate

Movie 1929

Her Mad Bargain

Ruth Beresford

Movie 1921

The Fatal Warning

Movie 1929

The Scarlet Crystal

Helen Forbes

Movie 1917

Hollywood

Gertrude Astor

Movie 1923

The Price of a Good Time

Mis Schyler

Movie 1917

Under Two Flags

Venetia

Movie 1915

The Lash of Power

Phyllis Ward

Movie 1917

What Am I Bid?

Diana Newlands

Movie 1919

The Wolf Man

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1941

The Girl Who Won Out

Mrs. Walsh

Movie 1917

The Old Soak

Sylvia De Costa

Movie 1926

The Ninety and Nine

Kate Van Dyke

Movie 1922

Bombs and Banknotes

His Daughter

Movie 1917

The Butter and Egg Man

Fanny Lehman

Movie 1928

The Family Group

Movie 1928

Chasing Husbands

Movie 1928

Skin Deep

Mrs. Carlson

Movie 1922

The Wanters

Mrs. Van Pelt

Movie 1923

The Chases of Pimple Street

Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)

Movie 1934

The Devil's Hand

The Elderly Cultist

Movie 1961

Come Clean

Mrs. Hardy

Movie 1931

The Strong Man

Lily de Broadway

Movie 1926

My Man Godfrey

Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1957

Wine, Women and Song

Jennie Tilson

Movie 1933

The Plumber and the Lady

Mrs. Otto Mauser

Movie 1933

Loot

Lady Gwendolyn

Movie 1919

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)

Movie 1927

Rupert of Hentzau

Paula

Movie 1923

Fort Osage

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1952

The Old West

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1952

Through The Back Door

Louise Reeves

Movie 1921

Don Juan's 3 Nights

Baroness von Minden

Movie 1926

Here Comes Trouble

Woman with Dog (uncredited)

Movie 1948

You Never Know

Miriam Folansbee

Movie 1922

The Wicked Darling

Adele Hoyt

Movie 1919

Reap the Wild Wind

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1942

The Drunkard

Peggy

Movie 1935

Bucking Broadway

Gladys (uncredited)

Movie 1917

Stage Struck

Lillian Lyons

Movie 1925

Broadway or Bust

Mrs. Dean Smythe

Movie 1924

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

'Kansas' Lou

Movie 1924

Wife Tamers

Mrs. Barry

Movie 1926

Be Yourself!

Lillian

Movie 1930

All Over Town

Mamie

Movie 1937

Lorna Doone

Countess of Brandir (uncredited)

Movie 1922

The Best Years of Our Lives

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1946

The Kentucky Derby

Helen Gordon

Movie 1922

High Hats and Low Brows

Mrs. Billingsgate

Movie 1932

Live and Learn

Mrs. Brown

Movie 1930

Carnival Lady

Zandra, Fortune Teller

Movie 1933

Rich Relations

Movie 1937

Running Hollywood

Gertrude Astor

Movie 1932

Wedding Belles

Movie 1934

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Townswoman

Movie 1966

Kiki

Paulette Mascar

Movie 1926

Dizzy Daddies

A Former Flame

Movie 1926

All in a Night's Work

Customer (uncredited)

Movie 1961

They Never Come Back

Kate

Movie 1932

Dames Ahoy

The Blonde

Movie 1930

Untamed

Mrs. Mason

Movie 1929

The Best of Everything

Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)

Movie 1959

I Have Lived

Harriet Naisson

Movie 1933

I Don't Remember

Sophie Glick

Movie 1935

The Small Bachelor

Fanny

Movie 1927

Frisco Lil

Movie 1942

Kentucky Pride

Mrs. Beaumont

Movie 1925

Secrets

Mrs. Manwaring

Movie 1924

Synthetic Sin

Sheila Kelly

Movie 1929

The Boy Friend

Mrs. White

Movie 1926

Dragonwyck

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1946

In Walked Charley

Gertrude Henderson

Movie 1932

The Cat and the Canary

Cecily

Movie 1927

While Paris Sleeps

Movie 1932

Calcutta

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Movie 1946

The Branding Iron

Betty Morena

Movie 1920

Beyond the Rocks

Morella Winmarleigh

Movie 1922

Behind the Front

French barmaid

Movie 1926

Wells Fargo

Pioneer Woman

Movie 1937

The Llano Kid

Saloon Hostess

Movie 1939

Sergeant Rutledge

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Movie 1960

A Star Is Born

Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Poker Widows

Mrs. Thomas Regan

Movie 1931

Here Comes the Band

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Movie 1935

All About Eve

Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1950

Northern Frontier

Mae

Movie 1935

The Women

Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Sitting Pretty

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1948

Empty Saddles

Eloise Hayes

Movie 1936

Dust Be My Destiny

Dame (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Oh, What a Man!

The Bandit

Movie 1927

Ship of Wanted Men

Vera

Movie 1933

Sister Kenny

Doctor (uncredited)

Movie 1946

My Dear Secretary

Miss Gee (uncredited)

Movie 1948

Again Pioneers

Mrs. Jans

Movie 1950

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

Eva Tanguay (uncredited)

Movie 1945

Postal Inspector

Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)

Movie 1936

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)

Movie 1950

Monsieur Verdoux

Garden Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1947

The Torrent

The Cast-Off

Movie 1924

Hold Back the Dawn

Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)

Movie 1941

Guilty Parents

Marie

Movie 1934

Cappy Ricks Returns

Speaker (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Western Limited

Mrs. Winters

Movie 1932

Tell 'Em Nothing

Mrs. Gladstone

Movie 1926

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1962

Ginsberg the Great

Sappho

Movie 1927

Five and Ten Cent Annie

Blonde

Movie 1928

Twin Beds

Mrs. Solari

Movie 1929

The Scarlet Claw

Movie 1944

The Charmer

Bertha Sedgwick

Movie 1925

Angel Face

Matron (uncredited)

Movie 1953

Misbehaving Husbands

Gossiping Friend

Movie 1940

Sunset Boulevard

Courtier (uncredited)

Movie 1950

The Doctor Takes a Wife

Extra (uncredited)

Movie 1940

Scared Stiff

Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)

Movie 1953

It's in the Air

(uncredited)

Movie 1935

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1938

The Tingler

Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Movie 1959

Cheyenne's Pal

Dancehall girl

Movie 1917

Two Rode Together

Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)

Movie 1961

Scandal Sheet

Neighbor (uncredited)

Movie 1952

Around the World in Eighty Days

Extra (uncredited)

Movie 1956

The Reckless Sex

Lucile Dupré

Movie 1925

Daddy Long Legs

Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Movie 1955

Girls of the Big House

Railroad Matron

Movie 1945

Border Brigands

Big Six -Saloon Girl

Movie 1935

3 Godfathers

Saloon Girl (uncredited)

Movie 1948

Lost Canyon

Mrs. Anson

Movie 1942

Tassels in the Air

Louella Pindell (uncredited)

Movie 1938

The Avenging Rider

Martha

Movie 1943

Paula

Mrs. Brown (uncredited)

Movie 1952

San Francisco

Drunk's Girl (uncredited)

Movie 1936

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Denver Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1964

Two Weeks Off

Agnes

Movie 1929

The Taxi Dancer

Kitty Lane

Movie 1927

Polly Redhead

Lady Caroline

Movie 1917

When Worlds Collide

Traveler (uncredited)

Movie 1951

Flaming Gold

Escort Service Madam

Movie 1932

A Place in the Sun

Bit Part (uncredited)

Movie 1951

The Sound of Music

Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1965

The Fall of Eve

Mrs. Ford

Movie 1929

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Edith Cortlandt

Movie 1923

Music Man

Movie 1948

The Cheerful Fraud

Rose

Movie 1926

$1,000 a Touchdown

McGlen Wife (uncredited)

Movie 1939

A Woman of Affairs

Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1928

Fun on a Weekend

Party Guest (Uncredited)

Movie 1947

Leave Her to Heaven

Prison Matron (uncredited)

Movie 1945

Bondage

Eugenia Darth

Movie 1917

The Devil's Pay Day

Hazel Davidson

Movie 1917

The Brazen Beauty

Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael

Movie 1918

The Rescue

Mrs. Hendricks

Movie 1917

The Little Orphan

Emmeline Warren

Movie 1917

Bunco Squad

Club Patron (uncredited)

Movie 1950

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Mrs. Howard

Movie 1948

Hurricane's Gal

Phyllis Fairfield

Movie 1922

Robes of Sin

Movie 1924

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Bit Part (uncredited)

Movie 1945

The Concert

Eva

Movie 1921

Moontide

Woman

Movie 1942

No More Ladies

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Seeing's Believing

Aunt Sue

Movie 1922

The File on Thelma Jordon

Juror (Uncredited)

Movie 1949

Rose-Marie

Wanda

Movie 1928

Hell Bound

Rosie

Movie 1931

Wichita

Saloon Madam (uncredited)

Movie 1955

Thunder on the Hill

Village Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1951

Great Guy

Party Guest (Uncredited)

Movie 1936

The Wall Flower

Pamela Shiel

Movie 1922

The Climax

Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)

Movie 1944

The Silent Watcher

Mrs. Steele

Movie 1924

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

Alice Granville

Movie 1922

Crook's Tour

Mrs Dorigan

Movie 1933

Weird Woman

Party Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1944

Satan in Sables

Dolores Sierra

Movie 1925

The Female Animal

Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)

Movie 1958

Caged

Inmate (uncredited)

Movie 1950

Crack-Up

Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)

Movie 1946

The Country Beyond

Mrs. Andrews

Movie 1926

I'll Take Vanilla

Mom

Movie 1934

Manhattan Monkey Business

Gwendolyn

Movie 1935

Laughing Ladies

The Married Man's Wife

Movie 1925

Washee Ironee

Woman at Party

Movie 1934

Borrowed Finery

Maisie

Movie 1925

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Saloon Girl (uncredited)

Movie 1949

Dick Tracy

Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1945

The Merry Widow

Reception Guest (uncredited)

Movie 1952

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

Paulette

Movie 1928

Lightning Lariats

Girl

Movie 1927

Alice Adams

Mildred Palmer

Movie

Bad Boy

Movie 1935

Tv series unavailable from Gertrude Astor

My Mother the Car

Tv 1965

I Love Lucy

Showgirl #4

Tv 1951