Biography
Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 β 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
all 183
Movies 181
self 3
TV Shows 2
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
My Mother the Car (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Devil's Hand (1961)
All in a Night's Work (1961)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
The Best of Everything (1959)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Female Animal (1958)
My Man Godfrey (1957)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
The Virgin Queen (1955)
Wichita (1955)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Scared Stiff (1953)
The Old West (1952)
Paula (1952)
Fort Osage (1952)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
Thunder on the Hill (1951)
I Love Lucy (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
Bunco Squad (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Caged (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
My Dear Secretary (1948)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
Music Man (1948)
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Fun on a Weekend (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Calcutta (1946)
Sister Kenny (1946)
Crack-Up (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn (1945)
Girls of the Big House (1945)
Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
The Climax (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
The Kansan (1943)
The Avenging Rider (1943)
Idaho (1943)
Lost Canyon (1942)
Moontide (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Frisco Lil (1942)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
The Llano Kid (1939)
$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
The Women (1939)
Tassels in the Air (1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Wells Fargo (1937)
All Over Town (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Rich Relations (1937)
Empty Saddles (1936)
Great Guy (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
I Don't Remember (1935)
Manhattan Monkey Business (1935)
It's in the Air (1935)
Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)
Here Comes the Band (1935)
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
No More Ladies (1935)
Border Brigands (1935)
The Drunkard (1935)
Northern Frontier (1935)
The Chases of Pimple Street (1934)
Bum Voyage (1934)
Wedding Belles (1934)
I'll Take Vanilla (1934)
Guilty Parents (1934)
Carnival Lady (1933)
Crook's Tour (1933)
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
I Have Lived (1933)
The Plumber and the Lady (1933)
Wine, Women and Song (1933)
Flaming Gold (1932)
Western Limited (1932)
High Hats and Low Brows (1932)
They Never Come Back (1932)
While Paris Sleeps (1932)
In Walked Charley (1932)
Running Hollywood (1932)
Poker Widows (1931)
Come Clean (1931)
Hell Bound (1931)
Live and Learn (1930)
Dames Ahoy (1930)
Be Yourself! (1930)
Untamed (1929)
Frozen Justice (1929)
The Fall of Eve (1929)
Two Weeks Off (1929)
The Fatal Warning (1929)
Synthetic Sin (1929)
Chasing Husbands (1928)
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
The Family Group (1928)
Rose-Marie (1928)
Oh, What a Man! (1927)
Ginsberg the Great (1927)
The Small Bachelor (1927)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
The Cheerful Fraud (1926)
The Strong Man (1926)
The Country Beyond (1926)
Tell 'Em Nothing (1926)
The Old Soak (1926)
Don Juan's 3 Nights (1926)
Kiki (1926)
Wife Tamers (1926)
Dizzy Daddies (1926)
Behind the Front (1926)
The Boy Friend (1926)
Stage Struck (1925)
Satan in Sables (1925)
Kentucky Pride (1925)
The Charmer (1925)
Robes of Sin (1924)
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924)
The Silent Watcher (1924)
Broadway or Bust (1924)
Secrets (1924)
The Wanters (1923)
Hollywood (1923)
Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
The Ninety and Nine (1922)
You Never Know (1922)
The Kentucky Derby (1922)
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
Lorna Doone (1922)
Skin Deep (1922)
Hurricane's Gal (1922)
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Seeing's Believing (1922)
The Wall Flower (1922)
Her Mad Bargain (1921)
Through The Back Door (1921)
The Concert (1921)
The Branding Iron (1920)
The Wicked Darling (1919)
Loot (1919)
What Am I Bid? (1919)
The Brazen Beauty (1918)
After the War (1918)
Bucking Broadway (1917)
The Lash of Power (1917)
The Price of a Good Time (1917)
Bondage (1917)
The Girl Who Won Out (1917)
Cheyenne's Pal (1917)
The Rescue (1917)
The Little Orphan (1917)
Polly Redhead (1917)
The Scarlet Crystal (1917)
The Devil's Pay Day (1917)
Bombs and Banknotes (1917)
Under Two Flags (1915)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1887-11-09
Deathday1977-11-09 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceLakewood, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As Gertrude Aster, Gertrude Irene Eyster
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