Actor
Gertrude Astor
Biography

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 ...

Known For
Acting
1966 -- Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | Townswoman
1965 -- The Sound of Music | Party Guest (uncredited)
1964 -- The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
1962 -- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Townswoman (uncredited)
1961 -- The Devil's Hand | The Elderly Cultist
1961 -- Two Rode Together | Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
1961 -- All in a Night's Work | Customer (uncredited)
1960 -- Sergeant Rutledge | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1959 -- The Best of Everything | Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
1959 -- The Tingler | Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
1959 -- The Horse Soldiers | Townswoman (uncredited)
1958 -- The Female Animal | Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
1957 -- My Man Godfrey | Party Guest (uncredited)
1956 -- Around the World in Eighty Days | Extra (uncredited)
1955 -- The Virgin Queen | Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
1955 -- Wichita | Saloon Madam (uncredited)
1955 -- Daddy Long Legs | Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
1954 -- Deep in My Heart | Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
1954 -- A Star Is Born | Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1953 -- Scared Stiff | Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
1953 -- Angel Face | Matron (uncredited)
1952 -- The Old West | Townswoman (uncredited)
1952 -- The Merry Widow | Reception Guest (uncredited)
1952 -- Paula | Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
1952 -- Fort Osage | Townswoman (uncredited)
1952 -- Scandal Sheet | Neighbor (uncredited)
1951 -- Thunder on the Hill | Village Woman (uncredited)
1951 -- When Worlds Collide | Traveler (uncredited)
1951 -- A Place in the Sun | Bit Part (uncredited)
1950 -- All About Eve | Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
1950 -- Again Pioneers | Mrs. Jans
1950 -- Bunco Squad | Club Patron (uncredited)
1950 -- Sunset Boulevard | Courtier (uncredited)
1950 -- Caged | Inmate (uncredited)
1950 -- Woman in Hiding | Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
1949 -- The File on Thelma Jordon | Juror (Uncredited)
1949 -- The Doolins of Oklahoma | Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948 -- 3 Godfathers | Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948 -- My Dear Secretary | Miss Gee (uncredited)
1948 -- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Mrs. Howard
1948 -- Music Man |
1948 -- Here Comes Trouble | Woman with Dog (uncredited)
1948 -- Sitting Pretty | Townswoman (uncredited)
1947 -- Monsieur Verdoux | Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
1947 -- Fun on a Weekend | Party Guest (Uncredited)
1946 -- The Best Years of Our Lives | Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1946 -- Calcutta | Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1946 -- Sister Kenny | Doctor (uncredited)
1946 -- Crack-Up | Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
1946 -- Dragonwyck | Nurse (uncredited)
1945 -- Leave Her to Heaven | Prison Matron (uncredited)
1945 -- Dick Tracy | Woman (uncredited)
1945 -- An Angel Comes To Brooklyn | Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
1945 -- Girls of the Big House | Railroad Matron
1945 -- Swingin' on a Rainbow | Bit Part (uncredited)
1944 -- The Climax | Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
1944 -- The Scarlet Claw |
1944 -- Weird Woman | Party Guest (uncredited)
1943 -- The Kansan | Blonde Townswoman
1943 -- The Avenging Rider | Martha
1943 -- Idaho | Party Guest
1942 -- Lost Canyon | Mrs. Anson
1942 -- Moontide | Woman
1942 -- Reap the Wild Wind | Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942 -- Frisco Lil |
1941 -- The Wolf Man | Townswoman (uncredited)
1941 -- Hold Back the Dawn | Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1940 -- Misbehaving Husbands | Gossiping Friend
1940 -- The Doctor Takes a Wife | Extra (uncredited)
1939 -- The Llano Kid | Saloon Hostess
1939 -- $1,000 a Touchdown | McGlen Wife (uncredited)
1939 -- Dust Be My Destiny | Dame (uncredited)
1939 -- The Women | Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
1938 -- Tassels in the Air | Louella Pindell (uncredited)
1938 -- The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Woman (uncredited)
1937 -- Wells Fargo | Pioneer Woman
1937 -- All Over Town | Mamie
1937 -- Easy Living | Saleswoman (uncredited)
1937 -- Rich Relations |
1936 -- Empty Saddles | Eloise Hayes
1936 -- Great Guy | Party Guest (Uncredited)
1936 -- Wives Never Know | Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
1936 -- Postal Inspector | Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
1936 -- San Francisco | Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
1935 -- I Don't Remember | Sophie Glick
1935 -- Manhattan Monkey Business | Gwendolyn
1935 -- Bad Boy |
1935 -- It's in the Air | (uncredited)
1935 -- Cappy Ricks Returns | Speaker (uncredited)
1935 -- Here Comes the Band | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1935 -- Honeymoon Limited | Lady Devonshire
1935 -- No More Ladies | Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1935 -- Border Brigands | Big Six -Saloon Girl
1935 -- The Drunkard | Peggy
1935 -- Northern Frontier | Mae
1934 -- The Chases of Pimple Street | Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
1934 -- Washee Ironee | Woman at Party
1934 -- Wedding Belles |
1934 -- I'll Take Vanilla | Mom
1934 -- Guilty Parents | Marie
1933 -- Carnival Lady | Zandra, Fortune Teller
1933 -- Crook's Tour | Mrs Dorigan
1933 -- Ship of Wanted Men | Vera
1933 -- I Have Lived | Harriet Naisson
1933 -- The Plumber and the Lady | Mrs. Otto Mauser
1933 -- Wine, Women and Song | Jennie Tilson
1932 -- Flaming Gold | Escort Service Madam
1932 -- Western Limited | Mrs. Winters
1932 -- High Hats and Low Brows | Mrs. Billingsgate
1932 -- They Never Come Back | Kate
1932 -- While Paris Sleeps |
1932 -- In Walked Charley | Gertrude Henderson
1932 -- Running Hollywood | Gertrude Astor
1931 -- Poker Widows | Mrs. Thomas Regan
1931 -- Come Clean | Mrs. Hardy
1931 -- Hell Bound | Rosie
1930 -- Live and Learn | Mrs. Brown
1930 -- Dames Ahoy | The Blonde
1930 -- Be Yourself! | Lillian
1929 -- Untamed | Mrs. Mason
1929 -- Frozen Justice | Moosehide Kate
1929 -- Twin Beds | Mrs. Solari
1929 -- The Fall of Eve | Mrs. Ford
1929 -- Two Weeks Off | Agnes
1929 -- The Fatal Warning |
1929 -- Synthetic Sin | Sheila Kelly
1928 -- Chasing Husbands |
1928 -- A Woman of Affairs | Party Guest (uncredited)
1928 -- The Butter and Egg Man | Fanny Lehman
1928 -- Five and Ten Cent Annie | Blonde
1928 -- The Family Group |
1928 -- Rose-Marie | Wanda
1928 -- The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris | Paulette
1927 -- Oh, What a Man! | The Bandit
1927 -- Ginsberg the Great | Sappho
1927 -- The Small Bachelor | Fanny
1927 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin | Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
1927 -- The Cat and the Canary | Cecily
1927 -- The Taxi Dancer | Kitty Lane
1927 -- Lightning Lariats | Girl
1926 -- The Cheerful Fraud | Rose
1926 -- The Strong Man | Lily de Broadway
1926 -- The Country Beyond | Mrs. Andrews
1926 -- Tell 'Em Nothing | Mrs. Gladstone
1926 -- The Old Soak | Sylvia De Costa
1926 -- Don Juan's 3 Nights | Baroness von Minden
1926 -- Kiki | Paulette Mascar
1926 -- Wife Tamers | Mrs. Barry
1926 -- Dizzy Daddies | A Former Flame
1926 -- Behind the Front | French barmaid
1926 -- The Boy Friend | Mrs. White
1925 -- Stage Struck | Lillian Lyons
1925 -- Satan in Sables | Dolores Sierra
1925 -- Borrowed Finery | Maisie
1925 -- Kentucky Pride | Mrs. Beaumont
1925 -- The Charmer | Bertha Sedgwick
1925 -- The Reckless Sex | Lucile Dupré
1925 -- Laughing Ladies | The Married Man's Wife
1924 -- Robes of Sin |
1924 -- The Ridin' Kid from Powder River | 'Kansas' Lou
1924 -- The Silent Watcher | Mrs. Steele
1924 -- All's Swell on the Ocean |
1924 -- The Torrent | The Cast-Off
1924 -- Broadway or Bust | Mrs. Dean Smythe
1924 -- Secrets | Mrs. Manwaring
1923 -- The Wanters | Mrs. Van Pelt
1923 -- Hollywood | Gertrude Astor
1923 -- Rupert of Hentzau | Paula
1923 -- The Ne'er-Do-Well | Edith Cortlandt
1922 -- The Ninety and Nine | Kate Van Dyke
1922 -- You Never Know | Miriam Folansbee
1922 -- The Kentucky Derby | Helen Gordon
1922 -- The Impossible Mrs. Bellew | Alice Granville
1922 -- Lorna Doone | Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
1922 -- Skin Deep | Mrs. Carlson
1922 -- Hurricane's Gal | Phyllis Fairfield
1922 -- Beyond the Rocks | Morella Winmarleigh
1922 -- The Wall Flower | Pamela Shiel
1922 -- Seeing's Believing | Aunt Sue
1921 -- Her Mad Bargain | Ruth Beresford
1921 -- Through The Back Door | Louise Reeves
1921 -- The Concert | Eva
1920 -- The Branding Iron | Betty Morena
1919 -- The Wicked Darling | Adele Hoyt
1919 -- Loot | Lady Gwendolyn
1919 -- What Am I Bid? | Diana Newlands
1918 -- The Brazen Beauty | Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
1917 -- Bucking Broadway | Gladys (uncredited)
1917 -- The Lash of Power | Phyllis Ward
1917 -- The Price of a Good Time | Mis Schyler
1917 -- Bondage | Eugenia Darth
1917 -- The Girl Who Won Out | Mrs. Walsh
1917 -- Cheyenne's Pal | Dancehall girl
1917 -- The Rescue | Mrs. Hendricks
1917 -- The Little Orphan | Emmeline Warren
1917 -- Polly Redhead | Lady Caroline
1917 -- The Scarlet Crystal | Helen Forbes
1917 -- The Devil's Pay Day | Hazel Davidson
1917 -- Bombs and Banknotes | His Daughter
1915 -- Under Two Flags | Venetia
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