Gertrude Astor
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 9, 1887, Lakewood, Ohio, USA
- Died
- November 9, 1977
- Movies
- 223
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1966 | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | Townswoman |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1964 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Denver Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1961 | The Devil's Hand | The Elderly Cultist |
| 1961 | Two Rode Together | Mrs. Wringle (uncredited) |
| 1961 | All in a Night's Work | Customer (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Sergeant Rutledge | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The Best of Everything | Leading Woman in Play (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The Tingler | Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The Horse Soldiers | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1958 | The Female Animal | Actress on Movie Set (uncredited) |
| 1957 | My Man Godfrey | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1955 | The Virgin Queen | Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group |
| 1955 | Wichita | Saloon Madam (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Daddy Long Legs | Art Gallery Patron (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Deep in My Heart | Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born | Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Scared Stiff | Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Angel Face | Matron (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Old West | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Merry Widow | Reception Guest (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Paula | Mrs. Brown (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Fort Osage | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Scandal Sheet | Neighbor (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Thunder on the Hill | Village Woman (uncredited) |
| 1951 | When Worlds Collide | Traveler (uncredited) |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Apache Drums | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Again Pioneers | Mrs. Jans |
| 1950 | Bunco Squad | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Courtier (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Caged | Inmate (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Montana | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Woman in Hiding | Woman in Drugstore (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The File on Thelma Jordon | Juror (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The Doolins of Oklahoma | Saloon Girl (uncredited) |
| 1948 | 3 Godfathers | Saloon Girl (uncredited) |
| 1948 | My Dear Secretary | Miss Gee (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Mrs. Howard |
| 1948 | Music Man | Mrs. Larkin |
| 1948 | Here Comes Trouble | Woman with Dog (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Sitting Pretty | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Monsieur Verdoux | Garden Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Fun on a Weekend | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Calcutta | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Wedding Guest (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny | Doctor (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Crack-Up | Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited) |
| 1946 | Dragonwyck | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Leave Her to Heaven | Prison Matron (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Dick Tracy | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1945 | An Angel Comes To Brooklyn | Eva Tanguay (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Girls of the Big House | Railroad Matron |
| 1945 | Swingin' on a Rainbow | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Climax | Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Scarlet Claw | |
| 1944 | Weird Woman | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Kansan | Blonde Townswoman |
| 1943 | The Avenging Rider | Martha |
| 1943 | Idaho | Party Guest |
| 1942 | Lost Canyon | Mrs. Anson |
| 1942 | Moontide | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Ball Guest (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Frisco Lil | |
| 1941 | The Wolf Man | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Hold Back the Dawn | Young Woman in Bar (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Misbehaving Husbands | Gossiping Friend |
| 1940 | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Extra (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Llano Kid | Saloon Hostess |
| 1939 | $1,000 a Touchdown | McGlen Wife (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Dust Be My Destiny | Dame (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Women | Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Tassels in the Air | Louella Pindell (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Wells Fargo | Pioneer Woman |
| 1937 | All Over Town | Mamie |
| 1937 | Easy Living | Saleswoman (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Rich Relations | |
| 1936 | Empty Saddles | Eloise Hayes |
| 1936 | Great Guy | Party Guest (Uncredited) |
| 1936 | Wives Never Know | Mrs. Merchant (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Postal Inspector | Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited) |
| 1936 | San Francisco | Drunk's Girl (uncredited) |
| 1935 | I Don't Remember | Sophie Glick |
| 1935 | Manhattan Monkey Business | Gwendolyn |
| 1935 | Bad Boy | |
| 1935 | It's in the Air | (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Cappy Ricks Returns | Speaker (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Here Comes the Band | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Honeymoon Limited | Lady Devonshire |
| 1935 | No More Ladies | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Border Brigands | Big Six -Saloon Girl |
| 1935 | The Drunkard | Peggy |
| 1935 | Northern Frontier | Mae |
| 1934 | The Chases of Pimple Street | Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Washee Ironee | Woman at Party |
| 1934 | Wedding Belles | |
| 1934 | I'll Take Vanilla | Mom |
| 1934 | Guilty Parents | Marie |
| 1933 | Carnival Lady | Zandra, Fortune Teller |
| 1933 | Crook's Tour | Mrs Dorigan |
| 1933 | Ship of Wanted Men | Vera |
| 1933 | I Have Lived | Harriet Naisson |
| 1933 | The Plumber and the Lady | Mrs. Otto Mauser |
| 1933 | Wine, Women and Song | Jennie Tilson |
| 1932 | Flaming Gold | Escort Service Madam |
| 1932 | Western Limited | Mrs. Winters |
| 1932 | High Hats and Low Brows | Mrs. Billingsgate |
| 1932 | They Never Come Back | Kate |
| 1932 | While Paris Sleeps | |
| 1932 | In Walked Charley | Gertrude Henderson |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Gertrude Astor |
| 1931 | Poker Widows | Mrs. Thomas Regan |
| 1931 | Come Clean | Mrs. Hardy |
| 1931 | Hell Bound | Rosie |
| 1930 | Live and Learn | Mrs. Brown |
| 1930 | Dames Ahoy | The Blonde |
| 1930 | Be Yourself! | Lillian |
| 1929 | Untamed | Mrs. Mason |
| 1929 | Frozen Justice | Moosehide Kate |
| 1929 | Twin Beds | Mrs. Solari |
| 1929 | The Fall of Eve | Mrs. Ford |
| 1929 | Two Weeks Off | Agnes |
| 1929 | The Fatal Warning | |
| 1929 | Synthetic Sin | Sheila Kelly |
| 1928 | Chasing Husbands | |
| 1928 | A Woman of Affairs | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Butter and Egg Man | Fanny Lehman |
| 1928 | Stocks and Blondes | Goldie |
| 1928 | Hit of the Show | Trece |
| 1928 | Five and Ten Cent Annie | Blonde |
| 1928 | The Family Group | |
| 1928 | Rose-Marie | Wanda |
| 1928 | The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris | Paulette |
| 1927 | Oh, What a Man! | The Bandit |
| 1927 | Ginsberg the Great | Sappho |
| 1927 | The Small Bachelor | Fanny |
| 1927 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited) |
| 1927 | The Irresistible Lover | Dolly Carleton |
| 1927 | The Cat and the Canary | Cecily |
| 1927 | The Taxi Dancer | Kitty Lane |
| 1927 | Lightning Lariats | Girl |
| 1926 | The Cheerful Fraud | Rose |
| 1926 | The Strong Man | Lily de Broadway |
| 1926 | Sin Cargo | Mary Wickham |
| 1926 | The Country Beyond | Mrs. Andrews |
| 1926 | Tell 'Em Nothing | Mrs. Gladstone |
| 1926 | The Old Soak | Sylvia De Costa |
| 1926 | Don Juan's 3 Nights | Baroness von Minden |
| 1926 | The Boy Friend | Mrs. White |
| 1926 | Kiki | Paulette Mascar |
| 1926 | Wife Tamers | Mrs. Barry |
| 1926 | Dizzy Daddies | A Former Flame |
| 1926 | Behind the Front | French barmaid |
| 1925 | Ship of Souls | Doris Barnes |
| 1925 | Stage Struck | Lillian Lyons |
| 1925 | Satan in Sables | Dolores Sierra |
| 1925 | Borrowed Finery | Maisie |
| 1925 | The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted | Greta |
| 1925 | Kentucky Pride | Mrs. Beaumont |
| 1925 | Pursued | Madame La Grande |
| 1925 | The Charmer | Bertha Sedgwick |
| 1925 | The Verdict | Mrs. Ronsard |
| 1925 | Folly of Youth | Evelyn Cartwright |
| 1925 | The Reckless Sex | Lucile Dupré |
| 1925 | Laughing Ladies | The Married Man's Wife |
| 1924 | Robes of Sin | |
| 1924 | The Ridin' Kid from Powder River | 'Kansas' Lou |
| 1924 | The Silent Watcher | Mrs. Steele |
| 1924 | All's Swell on the Ocean | |
| 1924 | The Torrent | The Cast-Off |
| 1924 | Fight and Win | |
| 1924 | Broadway or Bust | Mrs. Dean Smythe |
| 1924 | Secrets | Mrs. Manwaring |
| 1923 | The Wanters | Mrs. Van Pelt |
| 1923 | Flaming Youth | Annie |
| 1923 | The Six-Fifty | Christine Palmer |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Gertrude Astor |
| 1923 | Rupert of Hentzau | Paula |
| 1923 | The Ne'er-Do-Well | Edith Cortlandt |
| 1923 | Alice Adams | Mildred Palmer |
| 1922 | The Ninety and Nine | Kate Van Dyke |
| 1922 | You Never Know | Miriam Folansbee |
| 1922 | The Kentucky Derby | Helen Gordon |
| 1922 | The Impossible Mrs. Bellew | Alice Granville |
| 1922 | Lorna Doone | Countess of Brandir (uncredited) |
| 1922 | Skin Deep | Mrs. Carlson |
| 1922 | Hurricane's Gal | Phyllis Fairfield |
| 1922 | Beyond the Rocks | Morella Winmarleigh |
| 1922 | Seeing's Believing | Aunt Sue |
| 1922 | The Wall Flower | Pamela Shiel |
| 1921 | Her Mad Bargain | Ruth Beresford |
| 1921 | Through the Back Door | Louise Reeves |
| 1921 | The Concert | Eva |
| 1920 | The Branding Iron | Betty Morena |
| 1920 | Occasionally Yours | Mona |
| 1920 | Burning Daylight | Lucille |
| 1919 | The Lion Man | Celeste La Rue |
| 1919 | The Wicked Darling | Adele Hoyt |
| 1919 | Loot | Lady Gwendolyn |
| 1919 | Pretty Smooth | Mrs. Hanson |
| 1919 | The Delicious Little Devil | Auditioning Dancer (uncredited) |
| 1919 | What Am I Bid? | Diana Newlands |
| 1918 | The Brazen Beauty | Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael |
| 1918 | The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit | Stella Carter |
| 1918 | Vamping the Vamp | Thedeska - The Vamp |
| 1917 | Bucking Broadway | Gladys (uncredited) |
| 1917 | The Lash of Power | Phyllis Ward |
| 1917 | The Price of a Good Time | Mis Schyler |
| 1917 | Bondage | Eugenia Darth |
| 1917 | The Girl Who Won Out | Mrs. Walsh |
| 1917 | Cheyenne's Pal | Dancehall girl |
| 1917 | The Rescue | Mrs. Hendricks |
| 1917 | The Gray Ghost | Lady Gwendolyn |
| 1917 | The Little Orphan | Emmeline Warren |
| 1917 | Polly Redhead | Lady Caroline |
| 1917 | The Scarlet Crystal | Helen Forbes |
| 1917 | The Devil's Pay Day | Hazel Davidson |
| 1917 | Bombs and Banknotes | His Daughter |
| 1915 | Under Two Flags | Venetia |
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