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...
Known For
Movies
- Deep in My Heart
1954
- Easy Living
1937
- The Virgin Queen
1955
- Frozen Justice
1929
- Her Mad Bargain
1921
- The Fatal Warning
1929
- The Scarlet Crystal
1917
- Hollywood
1923
- The Price of a Good Time
1917
- Under Two Flags
1915
- The Lash of Power
1917
- What Am I Bid?
1919
- The Wolf Man
1941
- The Girl Who Won Out
1917
- The Old Soak
1926
- The Ninety and Nine
1922
- Bombs and Banknotes
1917
- The Butter and Egg Man
1928
- The Family Group
1928
- Chasing Husbands
1928
- Skin Deep
1922
- The Wanters
1923
- The Chases of Pimple St...
1934
- The Devil's Hand
1961
- Come Clean
1931
- The Strong Man
1926
- My Man Godfrey
1957
- Wine, Women and Song
1933
- The Plumber and the Lady
1933
- Loot
1919
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927
- Rupert of Hentzau
1923
- Fort Osage
1952
- The Old West
1952
- Through The Back Door
1921
- Don Juan's 3 Nights
1926
- Here Comes Trouble
1948
- You Never Know
1922
- The Wicked Darling
1919
- Reap the Wild Wind
1942
- The Drunkard
1935
- Bucking Broadway
1917
- Stage Struck
1925
- Broadway or Bust
1924
- The Ridin' Kid from Pow...
1924
- Wife Tamers
1926
- Be Yourself!
1930
- All Over Town
1937
- Lorna Doone
1922
- The Best Years of Our L...
1946
- The Kentucky Derby
1922
- High Hats and Low Brows
1932
- Live and Learn
1930
- Carnival Lady
1933
- Rich Relations
1937
- Running Hollywood
1932
- Wedding Belles
1934
- Jesse James Meets Frank...
1966
- Kiki
1926
- Dizzy Daddies
1926
- All in a Night's Work
1961
- They Never Come Back
1932
- Dames Ahoy
1930
- Untamed
1929
- The Best of Everything
1959
- I Have Lived
1933
- I Don't Remember
1935
- The Small Bachelor
1927
- Frisco Lil
1942
- Kentucky Pride
1925
- Secrets
1924
- Synthetic Sin
1929
- The Boy Friend
1926
- Dragonwyck
1946
- In Walked Charley
1932
- The Cat and the Canary
1927
- While Paris Sleeps
1932
- Calcutta
1946
- The Branding Iron
1920
- Beyond the Rocks
1922
- Behind the Front
1926
- Wells Fargo
1937
- The Llano Kid
1939
- Sergeant Rutledge
1960
- A Star Is Born
1954
- Poker Widows
1931
- Here Comes the Band
1935
- All About Eve
1950
- Northern Frontier
1935
- The Women
1939
- Sitting Pretty
1948
- Empty Saddles
1936
- Dust Be My Destiny
1939
- Oh, What a Man!
1927
- Ship of Wanted Men
1933
- Sister Kenny
1946
- My Dear Secretary
1948
- Again Pioneers
1950
- An Angel Comes To Brook...
1945
- Postal Inspector
1936
- Woman in Hiding
1950
- Monsieur Verdoux
1947
- The Torrent
1924
- Hold Back the Dawn
1941
- Guilty Parents
1934
- Cappy Ricks Returns
1935
- Western Limited
1932
- Tell 'Em Nothing
1926
- The Man Who Shot Libert...
1962
- Ginsberg the Great
1927
- Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928
- Twin Beds
1929
- The Scarlet Claw
1944
- The Charmer
1925
- Angel Face
1953
- Misbehaving Husbands
1940
- Sunset Boulevard
1950
- The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
- Scared Stiff
1953
- It's in the Air
1935
- The Big Broadcast of 19...
1938
- The Tingler
1959
- Cheyenne's Pal
1917
- Two Rode Together
1961
- Scandal Sheet
1952
- Around the World in 80 ...
1956
- The Reckless Sex
1925
- Daddy Long Legs
1955
- Girls of the Big House
1945
- Border Brigands
1935
- 3 Godfathers
1948
- Lost Canyon
1942
- Tassels in the Air
1938
- Idaho
1943
- Honeymoon Limited
1935
- The Kansan
1943
- The Avenging Rider
1943
- Paula
1952
- San Francisco
1936
- The Unsinkable Molly Br...
1964
- Two Weeks Off
1929
- The Taxi Dancer
1927
- Polly Redhead
1917
- When Worlds Collide
1951
- Flaming Gold
1932
- A Place in the Sun
1951
- The Sound of Music
1965
- The Fall of Eve
1929
- The Ne'er-Do-Well
1923
- Music Man
1948
- The Cheerful Fraud
1926
- $1,000 a Touchdown
1939
- A Woman of Affairs
1928
- Fun on a Weekend
1947
- Leave Her to Heaven
1945
- Bondage
1917
- The Devil's Pay Day
1917
- The Brazen Beauty
1918
- The Rescue
1917
- The Little Orphan
1917
- Bunco Squad
1950
- Joe Palooka in Winner T...
1948
- Hurricane's Gal
1922
- Robes of Sin
1924
- Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
- The Concert
1921
- Moontide
1942
- No More Ladies
1935
- Seeing's Believing
1922
- The File on Thelma Jord...
1949
- Rose-Marie
1928
- Hell Bound
1931
- Wichita
1955
- Thunder on the Hill
1951
- Great Guy
1936
- The Wall Flower
1922
- The Climax
1944
- The Silent Watcher
1924
- The Impossible Mrs. Bel...
1922
- Crook's Tour
1933
- Weird Woman
1944
- Satan in Sables
1925
- The Female Animal
1958
- Caged
1950
- The Horse Soldiers
1959
- Crack-Up
1946
- The Country Beyond
1926
- I'll Take Vanilla
1934
- Manhattan Monkey Busine...
1935
- Laughing Ladies
1925
- Washee Ironee
1934
- Borrowed Finery
1925
- The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
- Dick Tracy
1945
- The Merry Widow
1952
- The Cohens and the Kell...
1928
- Lightning Lariats
1927
- Alice Adams
1923
- Bad Boy
1935
- All's Swell on the Ocean
1924
- Wives Never Know
1936
- Ship of Souls
1925
- Occasionally Yours
1920
- The Delicious Little De...
1919
- Apache Drums
1951
- The Girl Who Wouldn't Q...
1918
- Pretty Smooth
1919
- The Gray Ghost
1917
- Pursued
1925
- The Verdict
1925
- The Lion Man
1919
- Burning Daylight
1920
TV Shows
- My Mother the Car
1965
- I Love Lucy
1951