Gertrude Astor
1887-11-09 ( 137 years old ) in Lakewood, 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.

Movies

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter 1966-04-09
The Sound of Music 1965-03-02
The Unsinkable Molly Brown 1964-06-11
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962-04-13
The Devil's Hand 1961-09-13
Two Rode Together 1961-05-24
All in a Night's Work 1961-03-15
Sergeant Rutledge 1960-05-25
The Best of Everything 1959-10-09
The Tingler 1959-07-29
The Horse Soldiers 1959-06-11
The Female Animal 1958-01-22
My Man Godfrey 1957-10-11
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956-10-17
The Virgin Queen 1955-07-22
Wichita 1955-07-03
Daddy Long Legs 1955-05-05
Deep in My Heart 1954-12-09
A Star Is Born 1954-10-01
Scared Stiff 1953-04-27
Angel Face 1953-01-02
The Old West 1952-09-29
The Merry Widow 1952-09-05
Paula 1952-05-15
Fort Osage 1952-02-10
Scandal Sheet 1952-01-16
Thunder on the Hill 1951-10-17
When Worlds Collide 1951-09-14
A Place in the Sun 1951-06-12
All About Eve 1950-11-09
Again Pioneers 1950-11-01
Bunco Squad 1950-09-01
Sunset Boulevard 1950-08-10
Caged 1950-05-19
Woman in Hiding 1950-01-06
The File on Thelma Jordon 1949-11-04
The Doolins of Oklahoma 1949-05-27
3 Godfathers 1948-12-31
My Dear Secretary 1948-11-05
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All 1948-09-19
Music Man 1948-09-05
Here Comes Trouble 1948-03-15
Sitting Pretty 1948-03-10
Monsieur Verdoux 1947-09-26
Fun on a Weekend 1947-05-15
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946-12-25
Calcutta 1946-12-20
Sister Kenny 1946-10-10
Crack-Up 1946-09-06
Dragonwyck 1946-04-19
Leave Her to Heaven 1945-12-25
Dick Tracy 1945-12-01
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn 1945-11-27
Girls of the Big House 1945-11-02
Swingin' on a Rainbow 1945-09-01
The Climax 1944-10-20
The Scarlet Claw 1944-05-18
Weird Woman 1944-03-01
The Kansan 1943-09-10
The Avenging Rider 1943-05-20
Idaho 1943-03-10
Lost Canyon 1942-12-18
Moontide 1942-05-29
Reap the Wild Wind 1942-03-26
Frisco Lil 1942-03-13
The Wolf Man 1941-12-12
Hold Back the Dawn 1941-09-26
Misbehaving Husbands 1940-12-20
The Doctor Takes a Wife 1940-04-25
The Llano Kid 1939-12-08
$1,000 a Touchdown 1939-10-04
Dust Be My Destiny 1939-09-16
The Women 1939-09-01
Tassels in the Air 1938-04-01
The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938-02-11
Wells Fargo 1937-12-31
All Over Town 1937-08-09
Easy Living 1937-07-16
Rich Relations 1937-02-01
Empty Saddles 1936-12-20
Great Guy 1936-12-01
Wives Never Know 1936-09-18
Postal Inspector 1936-08-16
San Francisco 1936-06-26
I Don't Remember 1935-12-25
Manhattan Monkey Business 1935-11-09
Bad Boy 1935-10-25
It's in the Air 1935-10-10
Cappy Ricks Returns 1935-09-25
Here Comes the Band 1935-08-30
Honeymoon Limited 1935-07-01
No More Ladies 1935-06-14
Border Brigands 1935-05-31
The Drunkard 1935-04-03
Northern Frontier 1935-02-01
The Chases of Pimple Street 1934-12-22
Washee Ironee 1934-11-13
Wedding Belles 1934-06-24
I'll Take Vanilla 1934-05-05
Guilty Parents 1934-04-01
Carnival Lady 1933-11-11
Crook's Tour 1933-09-23
Ship of Wanted Men 1933-09-08
I Have Lived 1933-06-15
The Plumber and the Lady 1933-03-31
Wine, Women and Song 1933-03-27
Flaming Gold 1932-09-28
Western Limited 1932-08-05
High Hats and Low Brows 1932-07-10
They Never Come Back 1932-05-10
While Paris Sleeps 1932-05-08
In Walked Charley 1932-04-22
Running Hollywood 1932-01-27
Poker Widows 1931-09-13
Come Clean 1931-09-02
Hell Bound 1931-05-01
Live and Learn 1930-06-15
Dames Ahoy 1930-02-09
Be Yourself! 1930-02-07
Untamed 1929-11-23
Frozen Justice 1929-10-13
Twin Beds 1929-07-14
The Fall of Eve 1929-06-17
Two Weeks Off 1929-05-11
The Fatal Warning 1929-02-15
Synthetic Sin 1929-01-06
Chasing Husbands 1928-12-22
A Woman of Affairs 1928-12-15
The Butter and Egg Man 1928-09-22
Five and Ten Cent Annie 1928-05-26
The Family Group 1928-02-18
Rose-Marie 1928-02-11
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris 1928-01-15
Oh, What a Man! 1927-12-04
Ginsberg the Great 1927-11-26
The Small Bachelor 1927-11-06
Uncle Tom's Cabin 1927-11-04
The Cat and the Canary 1927-08-20
The Taxi Dancer 1927-02-05
Lightning Lariats 1927-01-30
The Cheerful Fraud 1926-12-27
The Strong Man 1926-11-19
The Country Beyond 1926-10-17
Tell 'Em Nothing 1926-10-16
The Old Soak 1926-10-11
Don Juan's 3 Nights 1926-09-04
The Boy Friend 1926-08-14
Kiki 1926-04-04
Wife Tamers 1926-03-25
Dizzy Daddies 1926-03-14
Behind the Front 1926-02-22
Stage Struck 1925-11-16
Satan in Sables 1925-10-14
Borrowed Finery 1925-10-01
Kentucky Pride 1925-09-06
The Charmer 1925-04-20
The Reckless Sex 1925-02-05
Laughing Ladies 1925-01-01
Robes of Sin 1924-12-01
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River 1924-11-30
The Silent Watcher 1924-10-05
All's Swell on the Ocean 1924-08-18
The Torrent 1924-08-01
Broadway or Bust 1924-06-09
Secrets 1924-03-24
The Wanters 1923-11-26
Hollywood 1923-08-19
Rupert of Hentzau 1923-07-15
The Ne'er-Do-Well 1923-04-29
The Ninety and Nine 1922-12-17
You Never Know 1922-12-10
The Kentucky Derby 1922-12-04
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew 1922-10-22
Lorna Doone 1922-10-01
Skin Deep 1922-09-01
Hurricane's Gal 1922-07-01
Beyond the Rocks 1922-05-07
Seeing's Believing 1922-05-01
The Wall Flower 1922-05-01
Her Mad Bargain 1921-12-12
Through The Back Door 1921-05-05
The Concert 1921-02-20
The Branding Iron 1920-10-31
The Wicked Darling 1919-12-25
Loot 1919-10-06
What Am I Bid? 1919-04-14
The Brazen Beauty 1918-09-09
Bucking Broadway 1917-12-24
The Lash of Power 1917-11-05
The Price of a Good Time 1917-11-04
Bondage 1917-10-17
The Girl Who Won Out 1917-10-08
Cheyenne's Pal 1917-08-13
The Rescue 1917-07-23
The Little Orphan 1917-06-18
Polly Redhead 1917-02-09
The Scarlet Crystal 1917-02-05
The Devil's Pay Day 1917-01-29
Bombs and Banknotes 1917-01-02
Under Two Flags 1915-07-21
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