Gertrude Astor
Acting1887-11-09Lakewood, Ohio, USA
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.
出演作品（209）
Hollywood
サンセット大通り
イヴの総て
I Love Lucy
リバティ・バランスを射った男
我等の生涯の最良の年
サウンド・オブ・ミュージック
殺人狂時代
Fun on a Weekend
哀愁の湖
Kiki
陽のあたる場所
Come Clean
The Women
Easy Living
スタア誕生
女囚の掟
天使の顔
The Virgin Queen
Sitting Pretty
狼男
バファロー大隊
The Scarlet Claw
騎兵隊
The Cat and the Canary
スキャンダル・シート
Deep in My Heart
Sister Kenny
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Tassels in the Air
Hold Back the Dawn
三人の名付親
呪われた城
Uncle Tom's Cabin
80日間世界一周
The File on Thelma Jordon
Paula
San Francisco
The Taxi Dancer
Washee Ironee
Dust Be My Destiny
My Man Godfrey
Reap the Wild Wind
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Scared Stiff
Two Rode Together
足ながおじさん
A Woman of Affairs
Wichita
The Tingler
When Worlds Collide
The Best of Everything
Calcutta
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Moontide
Thunder on the Hill
Apache Drums
The Strong Man
Stage Struck
All Over Town
Postal Inspector
Woman in Hiding
Great Guy
The Merry Widow
Through the Back Door
Lorna Doone
The Chases of Pimple Street
Fort Osage
Wife Tamers
Behind the Front
Girls of the Big House
Music Man
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Robes of Sin
Weird Woman
Beyond the Rocks
凡ては夜に始まる
Kentucky Pride
My Dear Secretary
Bunco Squad
Untamed
While Paris Sleeps
The Female Animal
Idaho
Crack-Up
The Delicious Little Devil
Bucking Broadway
They Never Come Back
Secrets
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Flaming Gold
The Climax
The Kansan
Honeymoon Limited
The Wicked Darling
Wells Fargo
The Old West
Be Yourself!
The Kentucky Derby
Carnival Lady
Here Comes the Band
It's in the Air
Rose-Marie
Dick Tracy
Bad Boy
Guilty Parents
Misbehaving Husbands
Here Comes Trouble
No More Ladies
Cheyenne's Pal
Lost Canyon
The Devil's Hand
My Mother the Car
Tell 'Em Nothing
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Rich Relations
The Cheerful Fraud
Again Pioneers
The Fatal Warning
Flaming Youth
Dizzy Daddies
$1,000 a Touchdown
Ship of Wanted Men
Frozen Justice
Don Juan's 3 Nights
Her Mad Bargain
The Scarlet Crystal
The Price of a Good Time
Under Two Flags
The Lash of Power
What Am I Bid?
The Girl Who Won Out
The Old Soak
The Ninety and Nine
The Butter and Egg Man
The Family Group
Chasing Husbands
Skin Deep
The Wanters
Wine, Women and Song
Loot
Rupert of Hentzau
You Never Know
The Drunkard
Broadway or Bust
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
High Hats and Low Brows
Dames Ahoy
I Have Lived
The Small Bachelor
Synthetic Sin
The Boy Friend
In Walked Charley
The Branding Iron
The Llano Kid
Northern Frontier
Empty Saddles
Oh, What a Man!
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Ginsberg the Great
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Twin Beds
The Charmer
Border Brigands
The Avenging Rider
Two Weeks Off
Polly Redhead
The Fall of Eve
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Bondage
The Devil's Pay Day
The Brazen Beauty
The Rescue
The Little Orphan
Hurricane's Gal
Swingin' on a Rainbow
The Concert
Seeing's Believing
Hell Bound
The Wall Flower
The Silent Watcher
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Crook's Tour
Satan in Sables
The Country Beyond
I'll Take Vanilla
Manhattan Monkey Business
Laughing Ladies
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Lightning Lariats
Alice Adams
All's Swell on the Ocean
Wives Never Know
Occasionally Yours
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Pretty Smooth
The Gray Ghost
Pursued
The Verdict
The Lion Man
Burning Daylight
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Sin Cargo
Fight and Win
The Six-Fifty
Folly of Youth
Stocks and Blondes
The Irresistible Lover
Hit of the Show