Gertrude Astor
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1887-11-09
- Fallecimiento:
- 1977-11-09
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
Jesse James contra la hija de Frankenstein
My Mother the Car
Sonrisas y lágrimas
Molly Brown siempre a flote
El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance
The Devil's Hand
Dos cabalgan juntos
Todo en una noche
El sargento negro
Mujeres frente al amor
Escalofrío
Misión de audaces
The Female Animal
Un mayordomo aristócrata
La vuelta al mundo en 80 días
El favorito de la reina
Wichita, ciudad infernal
Papá piernas largas
Profundamente en mi corazón
Ha nacido una estrella
Una herencia de miedo
Cara de ángel
The Old West
La viuda alegre
El secreto de Paula
Fort Osage
Trágica información
Tempestad en la cumbre
Te quiero, Lucy
Cuando los mundos chocan
Un lugar en el sol
Tambores apaches
Eva al desnudo
Again Pioneers
Mensaje de otro mundo
El crepúsculo de los dioses
Sin remisión
Montana
Mujer oculta
El caso de Thelma Jordon
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Tres padrinos
Mi querida secretaria
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Music Man
Here Comes Trouble
Niñera moderna
Monsieur Verdoux
Fun on a Weekend
Calcuta
Los mejores años de nuestra vida
Amor sublime
Crack-Up
El castillo de Dragonwyck
Que el cielo la juzgue
Detective Dick Tracy
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Girls of the Big House
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Misterio en la ópera
Sherlock Holmes. La garra escarlata
Amenaza incógnita
The Kansan
The Avenging Rider
Idaho
Lost Canyon
Marea de luna
Piratas del mar Caribe
Frisco Lil
El hombre lobo
Si no amaneciera
Misbehaving Husbands
El doctor se casa
The Llano Kid
$1,000 a Touchdown
Dust Be My Destiny
Mujeres
Tassels in the Air
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Una nación en marcha
All Over Town
Una chica afortunada
Rich Relations
Empty Saddles
El gran tipo
Wives Never Know
Postal Inspector
San Francisco
I Don't Remember
Manhattan Monkey Business
Bad Boy
It's in the Air
Cappy Ricks Returns
Here Comes the Band
Honeymoon Limited
No más mujeres
Border Brigands
The Drunkard
Northern Frontier
The Chases of Pimple Street
Washee Ironee
Wedding Belles
I'll Take Vanilla
Guilty Parents
Carnival Lady
Crook's Tour
Ship of Wanted Men
I Have Lived
The Plumber and the Lady
Wine, Women and Song
Flaming Gold
Western Limited
High Hats and Low Brows
They Never Come Back
Mientras París duerme
In Walked Charley
Running Hollywood
Poker Widows
El canelo
Hell Bound
Live and Learn
Dames Ahoy
Be Yourself!
Untamed
Frozen Justice
Twin Beds
The Fall of Eve
Two Weeks Off
The Fatal Warning
Synthetic Sin
Chasing Husbands
La mujer ligera
The Butter and Egg Man
Stocks and Blondes
Hit of the Show
Five and Ten Cent Annie
The Family Group
Rose-Marie
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Oh, What a Man!
Ginsberg the Great
The Small Bachelor
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Irresistible Lover
El legado tenebroso
The Taxi Dancer
Lightning Lariats
El barón de incógnito
El hombre cañón
Sin Cargo
The Country Beyond
Tell 'Em Nothing
The Old Soak
Don Juan's 3 Nights
The Boy Friend
Kiki
Wife Tamers
Dizzy Daddies
Behind the Front
Ship of Souls
De la cocina al escenario
Satan in Sables
Borrowed Finery
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Sangre de pista
Pursued
The Charmer
The Verdict
Folly of Youth
The Reckless Sex
Laughing Ladies
Robes of Sin
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
The Silent Watcher
All's Swell on the Ocean
The Torrent
Fight and Win
Broadway or Bust
Secrets
The Wanters
Flaming Youth
The Six-Fifty
Hollywood
Rupert of Hentzau
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Alice Adams
The Ninety and Nine
You Never Know
The Kentucky Derby
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Lorna Doone
Skin Deep
Hurricane's Gal
Más fuertes que su amor
Seeing's Believing
The Wall Flower
Her Mad Bargain
Through the Back Door
The Concert
The Branding Iron
Occasionally Yours
Burning Daylight
The Lion Man
The Wicked Darling
Loot
Pretty Smooth
The Delicious Little Devil
What Am I Bid?
The Brazen Beauty
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Vamping the Vamp
Bucking Broadway
The Lash of Power
The Price of a Good Time
Bondage
The Girl Who Won Out
Cheyenne's Pal
The Rescue
The Gray Ghost
The Little Orphan
Polly Redhead
The Scarlet Crystal
The Devil's Pay Day
Bombs and Banknotes
Under Two Flags