Biography: life and films
Mary Astor was an American actress whose birth name was Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke. She was born in Quincy, Illinois, USA on 3rd May 1906 and died in Woodland Hills, California, USA on 25th September 1987, aged 81.Her best films as an actor include Philip Carle's Brother of the Bear (1921), Irving Cummings's Dressed to Kill (1928), John Huston's crime-thriller The Maltese Falcon (1941), Preston Sturges's comedy The Palm Beach Story (1942) and Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).
Mary Astor appeared in 118 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Mervyn LeRoy (5 films), George Archainbaud (4), Philip Carle (3), John Huston (3), James Cruze (3), Alan Crosland (3), Victor Fleming (2), Roy Del Ruth (2), Robert Florey (2), Ralph Ince (2), Melville W. Brown (2), Irving Cummings (2), Howard Bretherton (2), Herbert Blaché (2), George Sidney (2), Frank Tuttle (2), Frank Lloyd (2), F. Harmon Weight (2), Donald Crisp (2), Archie Mayo (2) and Alfred E. Green (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (70 films), comedy (26), romance (18), comedy-romance (11), comedy-drama (7), Thriller (4), War (3), crime-thriller (2) and Western (2).
Our average rating for Mary Astor over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor
John Smith (1922) [a]
The Man Who Played God (1922) [a]
The Rapids (1922) [a]
Hollywood (1923) [a]
Puritan Passions (1923) [a]
Second Fiddle (1923) [a]
Success (1923) [a]
The Bright Shawl (1923) [a]
The Marriage Maker (1923) [a]
To the Ladies (1923) [a]
Woman-Proof (1923) [a]
Beau Brummel (1924) [a]
Inez from Hollywood (1924) [a]
The Fighting American (1924) [a]
The Fighting Coward (1924) [a]
The Price of a Party (1924) [a]
Unguarded Women (1924) [a]
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) [a]
Enticement (1925) [a]
Oh, Doctor! (1925) [a]
Playing with Souls (1925) [a]
Scarlet Saint (1925) [a]
The Pace That Thrills (1925) [a]
Don Juan (1926) [a]
Forever After (1926) [a]
High Steppers (1926) [a]
The Wise Guy (1926) [a]
No Place to Go (1927) [a]
Rose of the Golden West (1927) [a]
The Rough Riders (1927) [a]
The Sea Tiger (1927) [a]
The Sunset Derby (1927) [a]
Two Arabian Knights (1927) [a]
Dressed to Kill (1928) [a]
Dry Martini (1928) [a]
Heart to Heart (1928) [a]
Romance of the Underworld (1928) [a]
Sailors' Wives (1928) [a]
Three-Ring Marriage (1928) [a]
New Year's Eve (1929) [a]
The Woman from Hell (1929) [a]
Holiday (1930) [a]
Ladies Love Brutes (1930) [a]
The Lash (1930) [a]
The Runaway Bride (1930) [a]
Behind Office Doors (1931) [a]
Men of Chance (1931) [a]
Other Men's Women (1931) [a]
Smart Woman (1931) [a]
The Royal Bed (1931) [a]
The Sin Ship (1931) [a]
White Shoulders (1931) [a]
A Successful Calamity (1932) [a]
Red Dust (1932) [a]
Those We Love (1932) [a]
Convention City (1933) [a]
Jennie Gerhardt (1933) [a]
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) [a]
The Little Giant (1933) [a]
The World Changes (1933) [a]
Easy to Love (1934) [a]
I Am a Thief (1934) [a]
Return of the Terror (1934) [a]
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) [a]
The Man with Two Faces (1934) [a]
Upperworld (1934) [a]
Dinky (1935) [a]
Man of Iron (1935) [a]
Page Miss Glory (1935) [a]
Red Hot Tires (1935) [a]
Straight from the Heart (1935) [a]
And So They Were Married (1936) [a]
Dodsworth (1936) [a]
Lady from Nowhere (1936) [a]
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936) [a]
Trapped by Television (1936) [a]
The Hurricane (1937) [a]
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) [a]
Listen, Darling (1938) [a]
No Time to Marry (1938) [a]
Paradise for Three (1938) [a]
There's Always a Woman (1938) [a]
Woman Against Woman (1938) [a]
Midnight (1939) [a]
Brigham Young (1940) [a]
Turnabout (1940) [a]
Across the Pacific (1942) [a]
The Palm Beach Story (1942) [a]
Thousands Cheer (1943) [a]
Blonde Fever (1944) [a]
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) [a]
Claudia and David (1946) [a]
Cass Timberlane (1947) [a]
Cynthia (1947) [a]
Desert Fury (1947) [a]
Fiesta (1947) [a]
Act of Violence (1948) [a]
Any Number Can Play (1949) [a]
Little Women (1949) [a]
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) [a]
The Power and the Prize (1956) [a]
The Devil's Hairpin (1957) [a]
This Happy Feeling (1958) [a]
A Stranger in My Arms (1959) [a]
Return to Peyton Place (1961) [a]
Youngblood Hawke (1964) [a]
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The best of Japanese cinema
