From Wikipedia Gertrude Astor (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 as a member of the Astor family and of German descent, Astor 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.
Movie | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | Townswoman | 1966-04-09 |
Movie | The Sound of Music | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1965-03-29 |
Series | My Mother the Car | Unknown | 1965-09-14 |
Movie | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Denver Party Guest (uncredited) | 1964-06-11 |
Movie | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1962-04-13 |
Movie | The Devil's Hand | The Elderly Cultist | 1961-09-13 |
Movie | All in a Night's Work | Customer (uncredited) | 1961-03-15 |
Movie | Sergeant Rutledge | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) | 1960-05-25 |
Movie | The Horse Soldiers | Townswoman | 1959-06-11 |
Movie | The Best of Everything | Leading Woman in Play (uncredited) | 1959-10-09 |
Movie | The Female Animal | Actress on Movie Set (uncredited) | 1958-01-22 |
Movie | My Man Godfrey | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1957-10-11 |
Movie | The Boss | Woman at Dedication (uncredited) | 1956-10-10 |
Movie | Around the World in Eighty Days | Extra (uncredited) | 1956-10-17 |
Movie | Daddy Long Legs | Art Gallery Patron (uncredited) | 1955-05-05 |
Movie | The Virgin Queen | Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group | 1955-07-22 |
Movie | Wichita | Saloon Madam (uncredited) | 1955-07-03 |
Movie | A Star Is Born | Racetrack Spectator (uncredited) | 1954-10-01 |
Movie | Deep in My Heart | Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited) | 1954-12-09 |
Movie | Scared Stiff | Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited) | 1953-04-27 |
Movie | Scandal Sheet | Neighbor (uncredited) | 1952-01-16 |
Movie | Fort Osage | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1952-02-10 |
Movie | Paula | Mrs. Brown (uncredited) | 1952-05-15 |
Movie | The Old West | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1952-09-29 |
Movie | When Worlds Collide | Traveler (uncredited) | 1951-09-14 |
Movie | A Place in the Sun | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1951-06-12 |
Series | I Love Lucy | Unknown | 1951-10-15 |
Movie | Thunder on the Hill | Village Woman (uncredited) | 1951-10-17 |
Movie | Caged | Inmate (uncredited) | 1950-05-19 |
Movie | Woman in Hiding | Woman in Drugstore (uncredited) | 1950-01-06 |
Movie | Sunset Boulevard | Courtier (uncredited) | 1950-08-10 |
Movie | Bunco Squad | Club Patron (uncredited) | 1950-09-01 |
Movie | All About Eve | Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited) | 1950-11-09 |
Movie | Again Pioneers | Mrs. Jans | 1950-11-01 |
Movie | The File on Thelma Jordon | Juror (Uncredited) | 1949-11-04 |
Movie | Here Comes Trouble | Woman with Dog (uncredited) | 1948-03-15 |
Movie | Sitting Pretty | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1948-03-10 |
Movie | Music Man | 1948-09-05 | |
Movie | Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Mrs. Howard | 1948-09-19 |
Movie | 3 Godfathers | Saloon Girl (uncredited) | 1948-12-31 |
Movie | My Dear Secretary | Miss Gee (uncredited) | 1948-11-05 |
Movie | Fun on a Weekend | Party Guest (Uncredited) | 1947-05-15 |
Movie | Monsieur Verdoux | Garden Party Guest (uncredited) | 1947-09-26 |
Movie | Dragonwyck | Nurse (uncredited) | 1946-04-19 |
Movie | Crack-Up | Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited) | 1946-09-06 |
Movie | The Best Years of Our Lives | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | 1946-12-25 |
Movie | Sister Kenny | Doctor (uncredited) | 1946-10-10 |
Movie | Calcutta | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 1946-12-20 |
Movie | Swingin' on a Rainbow | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1945-09-01 |
Movie | Girls of the Big House | Railroad Matron | 1945-11-02 |
Movie | Leave Her to Heaven | Prison Matron (uncredited) | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | An Angel Comes To Brooklyn | Eva Tanguay (uncredited) | 1945-11-27 |
Movie | Weird Woman | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1944-03-01 |
Movie | The Climax | Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited) | 1944-10-20 |
Movie | Idaho | Party Guest | 1943-03-10 |
Movie | The Kansan | Blonde Townswoman | 1943-09-10 |
Movie | The Avenging Rider | Martha | 1943-05-20 |
Movie | Frisco Lil | 1942-03-13 | |
Movie | Reap the Wild Wind | Ball Guest (uncredited) | 1942-03-26 |
Movie | Lost Canyon | Mrs. Anson | 1942-12-18 |
Movie | Now, Voyager | Lady Behind Charlotte at Concert (uncredited) | 1942-10-22 |
Movie | Moontide | Woman | 1942-05-29 |
Movie | Hold Back the Dawn | Young Woman in Bar (uncredited) | 1941-09-26 |
Movie | The Wolf Man | Townswoman (uncredited) | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Extra | 1940-04-25 |
Movie | Misbehaving Husbands | Gossiping Friend | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | The Women | Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited) | 1939-09-01 |
Movie | Dust Be My Destiny | Dame (uncredited) | 1939-09-16 |
Movie | $1,000 a Touchdown | McGlen Wife (uncredited) | 1939-10-04 |
Movie | The Llano Kid | Saloon Hostess | 1939-12-08 |
Movie | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Woman (uncredited) | 1938-02-11 |
Movie | Tassels in the Air | Louella Pindell (uncredited) | 1938-04-01 |
Movie | Rich Relations | 1937-02-01 | |
Movie | Easy Living | Saleswoman (uncredited) | 1937-07-16 |
Movie | Wells Fargo | Pioneer Woman | 1937-12-31 |
Movie | All Over Town | Mamie | 1937-08-09 |
Movie | San Francisco | Drunk's Girl (uncredited) | 1936-06-26 |
Movie | Great Guy | Party Guest (Uncredited) | 1936-12-01 |
Movie | Empty Saddles | Eloise Hayes | 1936-12-20 |
Movie | No More Ladies | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 1935-06-14 |
Movie | Border Brigands | Big Six -Saloon Girl | 1935-05-31 |
Movie | Northern Frontier | Mae | 1935-02-01 |
Movie | Honeymoon Limited | Lady Devonshire | 1935-07-01 |
Movie | The Drunkard | Peggy | 1935-04-03 |
Movie | Manhattan Monkey Business | Gwendolyn | 1935-11-09 |
Movie | I Don't Remember | Sophie Glick | 1935-12-25 |
Movie | It's in the Air | (uncredited) | 1935-10-10 |
Movie | Cappy Ricks Returns | Speaker (uncredited) | 1935-09-25 |
Movie | Here Comes the Band | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | 1935-08-30 |
Movie | Guilty Parents | Marie | 1934-04-01 |
Movie | The Chases of Pimple Street | Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited) | 1934-12-22 |
Movie | Ship of Wanted Men | Vera | 1933-09-08 |
Movie | I Have Lived | Harriet Naisson | 1933-06-15 |
Movie | Carnival Lady | Zandra, Fortune Teller | 1933-11-11 |
Movie | In Walked Charley | Gertrude Henderson | 1932-04-22 |
Movie | While Paris Sleeps | 1932-05-08 | |
Movie | Running Hollywood | Gertrude Astor | 1932-01-27 |
Movie | High Hats and Low Brows | Mrs. Billingsgate | 1932-07-10 |
Movie | Western Limited | Mrs. Winters | 1932-08-05 |
Movie | Flaming Gold | Escort Service Madam | 1932-09-28 |
Movie | They Never Come Back | Kate | 1932-05-10 |
Movie | Come Clean | Mrs. Hardy | 1931-09-02 |
Movie | Dames Ahoy | The Blonde | 1930-02-09 |
Movie | Be Yourself! | Lillian | 1930-02-07 |
Movie | Two Weeks Off | Agnes | 1929-05-11 |
Movie | Synthetic Sin | Sheila Kelly | 1929-01-06 |
Movie | The Fall of Eve | Mrs. Ford | 1929-06-17 |
Movie | Frozen Justice | Moosehide Kate | 1929-10-13 |
Movie | Untamed | Mrs. Mason | 1929-11-23 |
Movie | The Butter and Egg Man | Fanny Lehman | 1928-09-22 |
Movie | Rose-Marie | Wanda | 1928-02-11 |
Movie | A Woman of Affairs | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1928-12-15 |
Movie | Chasing Husbands | 1928-12-22 | |
Movie | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited) | 1927-11-04 |
Movie | The Taxi Dancer | Kitty Lane | 1927-02-05 |
Movie | The Cat and the Canary | Cecily | 1927-09-09 |
Movie | Oh, What a Man! | The Bandit | 1927-12-04 |
Movie | The Small Bachelor | Fanny | 1927-11-06 |
Movie | Wife Tamers | Mrs. Barry | 1926-03-25 |
Movie | Behind the Front | French barmaid | 1926-02-22 |
Movie | The Boy Friend | Mrs. White | 1926-01-01 |
Movie | Kiki | Paulette Mascar | 1926-04-04 |
Movie | Don Juan's 3 Nights | Baroness von Minden | 1926-09-04 |
Movie | The Cheerful Fraud | Rose | 1926-12-27 |
Movie | The Strong Man | Lily de Broadway | 1926-11-19 |
Movie | Tell 'Em Nothing | Mrs. Gladstone | 1926-10-16 |
Movie | The Charmer | Bertha Sedgwick | 1925-04-20 |
Movie | Kentucky Pride | Mrs. Beaumont | 1925-09-06 |
Movie | Stage Struck | Lillian Lyons | 1925-11-16 |
Movie | Satan in Sables | Dolores Sierra | 1925-10-14 |
Movie | Secrets | Mrs. Manwaring | 1924-03-24 |
Movie | The Ne'er-Do-Well | Edith Cortlandt | 1923-04-29 |
Movie | Hollywood | Gertrude Astor | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | The Wanters | Mrs. Van Pelt | 1923-11-26 |
Movie | Skin Deep | Mrs. Carlson | 1922-09-01 |
Movie | Beyond the Rocks | Morella Winmarleigh | 1922-05-07 |
Movie | Lorna Doone | Countess of Brandir (uncredited) | 1922-10-01 |
Movie | You Never Know | Miriam Folansbee | 1922-12-10 |
Movie | The Impossible Mrs. Bellew | Alice Granville | 1922-10-22 |
Movie | The Ninety and Nine | Kate Van Dyke | 1922-12-17 |
Movie | The Kentucky Derby | Helen Gordon | 1922-12-04 |
Movie | Through The Back Door | Louise Reeves | 1921-05-05 |
Movie | Her Mad Bargain | Ruth Beresford | 1921-12-12 |
Movie | The Branding Iron | Betty Morena | 1920-10-31 |
Movie | Loot | Lady Gwendolyn | 1919-10-06 |
Movie | The Wicked Darling | Adele Hoyt | 1919-12-25 |
Movie | The Brazen Beauty | Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael | 1918-09-09 |
Movie | The Little Orphan | Emmeline Warren | 1917-06-18 |
Movie | Polly Redhead | Lady Caroline | 1917-02-09 |
Movie | The Scarlet Crystal | Helen Forbes | 1917-02-05 |
Movie | The Rescue | Mrs. Hendricks | 1917-07-23 |
Movie | Cheyenne's Pal | Dancehall girl | 1917-08-13 |
Movie | The Lash of Power | Phyllis Ward | 1917-11-05 |
Movie | Bondage | Eugenia Darth | 1917-10-17 |
Movie | The Girl Who Won Out | Mrs. Walsh | 1917-10-08 |
Movie | Bucking Broadway | Gladys | 1917-12-24 |