Gertrude Astor
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1887-11-09
- Décès:
- 1977-11-09
- Lieu de naissance:
- Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
Jesse James contre Frankenstein
Une mère pas comme les autres/Maman bagnole/Ma mère à moteur
La Mélodie du bonheur
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance
The Devil's Hand
Les 2 Cavaliers
Il a suffi d'une nuit
Le Sergent Noir
Rien n'est trop beau
Le désosseur de cadavres
Les Cavaliers
The Female Animal
Mon homme Godfrey
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Le seigneur de l'aventure
Un Jeu risqué
Papa longues jambes
Au fond de mon cœur
Une étoile est née
Fais-moi peur
Un si doux visage
The Old West
The Merry Widow
Paula
Fort Osage
L'Inexorable Enquête
Tempête sur la colline
I Love Lucy
Le Choc des mondes
Une place au soleil
Quand les tambours s'arrêteront
Ève
Encore une fois ... Pionniers
Bunco Squad
Boulevard du crépuscule
Femmes en cage
Montana
L'Araignée
La Femme à l'écharpe pailletée
Face au Châtiment
Le Fils du Désert
Ma chère secrétaire
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Music Man
Here Comes Trouble
Bonne à tout faire
Monsieur Verdoux
Fun on a Weekend
Calcutta
Les Plus Belles Années de notre vie
Sister Kenny
Crack-Up
Le Château du dragon
Péché mortel
Dick Tracy, détective
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Girls of the Big House
Swingin' on a Rainbow
La Passion du docteur Hohner
Sherlock Holmes et la griffe sanglante
Le Suicide du Professeur X
The Kansan
The Avenging Rider
Idaho
Lost Canyon
La Péniche d'amour
Les Naufrageurs des mers du sud
Frisco Lil
Le Loup-Garou
La Porte d'or
Misbehaving Husbands
The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Llano Kid
$1,000 a Touchdown
Dust Be My Destiny
Femmes
Tassels in the Air
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Wells Fargo
All Over Town
Vie facile
Rich Relations
Empty Saddles
Great Guy
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 More Ladies
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
Le Bateau des Fugitifs
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
While Paris Sleeps
In Walked Charley
Running Hollywood
Poker Widows
Laurel Et Hardy - Toute la vérité
Hell Bound
Live and Learn
Dames Ahoy
Be Yourself!
Indomptée
Frozen Justice
Twin Beds
The Fall of Eve
Two Weeks Off
The Fatal Warning
Synthetic Sin
Chasing Husbands
A Woman of Affairs
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
La Volonté du mort
The Taxi Dancer
Lightning Lariats
The Cheerful Fraud
L'Athlète incomplet
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
Stage Struck
Satan in Sables
Borrowed Finery
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Kentucky Pride
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
Beyond the Rocks
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
Fleur sans tache
Loot
Pretty Smooth
The Delicious Little Devil
What Am I Bid?
The Brazen Beauty
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Vamping the Vamp
A l'assaut du boulevard
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