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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 9, 1887
Died
November 9, 1977
Place of Birth
Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- Gertrude Aster
- Gertrude Irene Eyster
Gertrude Astor
0.4 Popularity
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
4.1
Townswoman
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
4.3
My Mother the Car
1965
7.7
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Sound of Music
1965
5.5
Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964
7.8
Townswoman (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
4.4
The Elderly Cultist
The Devil's Hand
1961
6.4
Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
1961
5.9
Customer (uncredited)
All in a Night's Work
1961
7.1
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
6.3
Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
The Best of Everything
1959
Credits
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Townswoman
1966
4.1
My Mother the Car
1965
4.3
The Sound of Music
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1965
7.7
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
1964
5.5
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1962
7.8
The Devil's Hand
as The Elderly Cultist
1961
4.4
Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
1961
6.4
All in a Night's Work
as Customer (uncredited)
1961
5.9
Sergeant Rutledge
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1960
7.1
The Best of Everything
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
1959
6.3
The Tingler
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
1959
6.4
The Horse Soldiers
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1959
7.0
The Female Animal
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
1958
5.8
My Man Godfrey
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1957
6.4
Around the World in 80 Days
as Extra (uncredited)
1956
6.6
The Virgin Queen
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
1955
7.2
Wichita
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
1955
6.4
Daddy Long Legs
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
1955
6.4
Deep in My Heart
as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
1954
6.8
A Star Is Born
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1954
7.1
Scared Stiff
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
1953
6.4
Angel Face
as Matron (uncredited)
1953
7.1
The Old West
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
5.0
The Merry Widow
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
1952
6.2
Paula
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
1952
6.5
Fort Osage
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1952
6.0
Scandal Sheet
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1952
6.9
Thunder on the Hill
as Village Woman (uncredited)
1951
6.3
I Love Lucy
as Showgirl #4
1951
7.9
When Worlds Collide
as Traveler (uncredited)
1951
6.3
A Place in the Sun
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1951
7.3
Apache Drums
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1951
6.3
All About Eve
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
1950
8.1
Again Pioneers
as Mrs. Jans
1950
3.5
Bunco Squad
as Club Patron (uncredited)
1950
5.9
Sunset Boulevard
as Courtier (uncredited)
1950
8.3
Caged
as Inmate (uncredited)
1950
7.1
Woman in Hiding
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
1950
6.2
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Juror (Uncredited)
1949
6.5
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1949
6.8
3 Godfathers
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948
6.7
My Dear Secretary
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
1948
5.9
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Mrs. Howard
1948
6.0
Music Man
as Mrs. Larkin
1948
6.0
Here Comes Trouble
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
1948
4.6
Sitting Pretty
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1948
7.0
Monsieur Verdoux
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
1947
7.7
Fun on a Weekend
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1947
7.0
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1946
7.8
Calcutta
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1946
6.3
Sister Kenny
as Doctor (uncredited)
1946
6.8
Crack-Up
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
1946
5.6
Dragonwyck
as Nurse (uncredited)
1946
6.7
Leave Her to Heaven
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
1945
7.4
Dick Tracy
as Woman (uncredited)
1945
5.0
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
1945
0.0
Girls of the Big House
as Railroad Matron
1945
6.0
Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1945
0.0
The Climax
as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
1944
5.5
The Scarlet Claw
1944
6.9
Weird Woman
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1944
6.0
The Kansan
as Blonde Townswoman
1943
5.4
The Avenging Rider
as Martha
1943
0.0
Idaho
as Party Guest
1943
5.7
Lost Canyon
as Mrs. Anson
1942
4.5
Moontide
as Woman (uncredited)
1942
6.3
Reap the Wild Wind
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942
6.4
🎬
Frisco Lil
1942
8.0
The Wolf Man
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1941
7.0
Hold Back the Dawn
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1941
6.7
Misbehaving Husbands
as Gossiping Friend
1940
4.8
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Extra (uncredited)
1940
6.4
The Llano Kid
as Saloon Hostess
1939
0.0
$1,000 a Touchdown
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
1939
2.0
Dust Be My Destiny
as Dame (uncredited)
1939
6.2
The Women
as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
1939
7.1
Tassels in the Air
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
1938
6.8
The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Woman (uncredited)
1938
6.3
Wells Fargo
as Pioneer Woman
1937
5.2
All Over Town
as Mamie
1937
6.2
Easy Living
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
1937
7.1
Rich Relations
1937
4.0
Empty Saddles
as Eloise Hayes
1936
0.0
Great Guy
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1936
6.2
Wives Never Know
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
1936
0.0
Postal Inspector
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
1936
6.2
San Francisco
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
1936
6.5
🎬
I Don't Remember
as Sophie Glick
1935
2.0
Manhattan Monkey Business
as Gwendolyn
1935
0.0
Bad Boy
1935
5.0
It's in the Air
as (uncredited)
1935
5.0
🎬
Cappy Ricks Returns
as Speaker (uncredited)
1935
4.5
Here Comes the Band
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1935
5.0
Honeymoon Limited
as Lady Devonshire
1935
5.3
No More Ladies
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1935
4.6
Border Brigands
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
1935
0.0
The Drunkard
as Peggy
1935
0.0
Northern Frontier
as Mae
1935
0.0
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Washee Ironee
as Woman at Party
1934
6.8
🎬
Wedding Belles
1934
0.0
I'll Take Vanilla
as Mom
1934
0.0
Guilty Parents
as Marie
1934
4.8
Carnival Lady
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
1933
5.0
Crook's Tour
as Mrs Dorigan
1933
0.0
Ship of Wanted Men
as Vera
1933
1.7
I Have Lived
as Harriet Naisson
1933
0.0
🎬
The Plumber and the Lady
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
1933
0.0
Wine, Women and Song
as Jennie Tilson
1933
0.0
Flaming Gold
as Escort Service Madam
1932
5.5
🎬
Western Limited
as Mrs. Winters
1932
0.0
High Hats and Low Brows
as Mrs. Billingsgate
1932
0.0
They Never Come Back
as Kate
1932
5.5
While Paris Sleeps
1932
5.8
In Walked Charley
as Gertrude Henderson
1932
0.0
🎬
Running Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
1932
0.0
🎬
Poker Widows
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
1931
0.0
Come Clean
as Mrs. Hardy
1931
7.2
Hell Bound
as Rosie
1931
0.0
🎬
Live and Learn
as Mrs. Brown
1930
1.0
Dames Ahoy
as The Blonde
1930
0.0
Be Yourself!
as Lillian
1930
5.0
Untamed
as Mrs. Mason
1929
5.9
Frozen Justice
as Moosehide Kate
1929
1.0
Twin Beds
as Mrs. Solari
1929
0.0
The Fall of Eve
as Mrs. Ford
1929
0.0
Two Weeks Off
as Agnes
1929
0.0
The Fatal Warning
1929
3.0
Synthetic Sin
as Sheila Kelly
1929
0.0
Chasing Husbands
1928
0.0
A Woman of Affairs
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1928
6.4
The Butter and Egg Man
as Fanny Lehman
1928
0.0
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Blonde
1928
0.0
The Family Group
1928
0.0
Rose-Marie
as Wanda
1928
5.0
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
as Paulette
1928
0.0
Oh, What a Man!
as The Bandit
1927
0.0
Ginsberg the Great
as Sappho
1927
0.0
The Small Bachelor
as Fanny
1927
0.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
1927
6.6
The Cat and the Canary
as Cecily
1927
6.9
The Taxi Dancer
as Kitty Lane
1927
6.5
Lightning Lariats
as Girl
1927
0.0
The Cheerful Fraud
as Rose
1926
4.0
The Strong Man
as Lily de Broadway
1926
6.3
Sin Cargo
as Mary Wickham
1926
0.0
The Country Beyond
as Mrs. Andrews
1926
0.0
Tell 'Em Nothing
as Mrs. Gladstone
1926
4.2
The Old Soak
as Sylvia De Costa
1926
0.0
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Baroness von Minden
1926
1.0
The Boy Friend
as Mrs. White
1926
0.0
Kiki
as Paulette Mascar
1926
7.3
Wife Tamers
as Mrs. Barry
1926
6.0
Dizzy Daddies
as A Former Flame
1926
2.7
Behind the Front
as French barmaid
1926
6.0
🎬
Ship of Souls
as Doris Barnes
1925
1.0
Stage Struck
as Lillian Lyons
1925
6.2
Satan in Sables
as Dolores Sierra
1925
0.0
🎬
Borrowed Finery
as Maisie
1925
0.0
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
as Greta
1925
0.0
Kentucky Pride
as Mrs. Beaumont
1925
5.9
Pursued
as Madame La Grande
1925
0.0
The Charmer
as Bertha Sedgwick
1925
0.0
The Verdict
as Mrs. Ronsard
1925
0.0
🎬
The Reckless Sex
as Lucile Dupré
1925
0.0
Laughing Ladies
as The Married Man's Wife
1925
0.0
Robes of Sin
1924
6.0
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
as 'Kansas' Lou
1924
0.0
The Silent Watcher
as Mrs. Steele
1924
0.0
All's Swell on the Ocean
1924
0.0
🎬
The Torrent
as The Cast-Off
1924
0.0
Fight and Win
1924
0.0
Broadway or Bust
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
1924
0.0
Secrets
as Mrs. Manwaring
1924
5.5
The Wanters
as Mrs. Van Pelt
1923
0.0
The Six-Fifty
as Christine Palmer
1923
0.0
Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
1923
8.5
Rupert of Hentzau
as Paula
1923
0.0
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Edith Cortlandt
1923
0.0
Alice Adams
as Mildred Palmer
1923
0.0
The Ninety and Nine
as Kate Van Dyke
1922
0.0
You Never Know
as Miriam Folansbee
1922
0.0
The Kentucky Derby
as Helen Gordon
1922
5.0
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
as Alice Granville
1922
0.0
Lorna Doone
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
1922
6.2
Skin Deep
as Mrs. Carlson
1922
0.0
Hurricane's Gal
as Phyllis Fairfield
1922
0.0
Beyond the Rocks
as Morella Winmarleigh
1922
5.9
Seeing's Believing
as Aunt Sue
1922
0.0
The Wall Flower
as Pamela Shiel
1922
0.0
Her Mad Bargain
as Ruth Beresford
1921
0.0
Through The Back Door
as Louise Reeves
1921
6.1
The Concert
as Eva
1921
0.0
The Branding Iron
as Betty Morena
1920
0.0
Occasionally Yours
as Mona
1920
0.0
Burning Daylight
as Lucille
1920
0.0
The Lion Man
as Celeste La Rue
1919
0.0
The Wicked Darling
as Adele Hoyt
1919
5.2
Loot
as Lady Gwendolyn
1919
0.0
Pretty Smooth
as Mrs. Hanson
1919
0.0
The Delicious Little Devil
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
1919
5.6
What Am I Bid?
as Diana Newlands
1919
0.0
The Brazen Beauty
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
1918
0.0
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
as Stella Carter
1918
0.0
Bucking Broadway
as Gladys (uncredited)
1917
5.5
The Lash of Power
as Phyllis Ward
1917
0.0
The Price of a Good Time
as Mis Schyler
1917
0.0
Bondage
as Eugenia Darth
1917
0.0
The Girl Who Won Out
as Mrs. Walsh
1917
0.0
Cheyenne's Pal
as Dancehall girl
1917
4.5
The Rescue
as Mrs. Hendricks
1917
0.0
The Gray Ghost
as Lady Gwendolyn
1917
0.0
The Little Orphan
as Emmeline Warren
1917
0.0
Polly Redhead
as Lady Caroline
1917
0.0
The Scarlet Crystal
as Helen Forbes
1917
0.0
The Devil's Pay Day
as Hazel Davidson
1917
0.0
🎬
Bombs and Banknotes
as His Daughter
1917
0.0
Under Two Flags
as Venetia
1915
0.0