Catherine Calvert
Actor
- Born
- April 20, 1890 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Died
- January 18, 1971 (age 80)
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cassidy, Catherine Calvert was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
She made her stage debut in the play Brown of Harvard in September 1908, in Albany, New York. On Broadway, she portrayed Laura Moore in The Deep Purple (1911), May Joyce in The Escape (1913), and Dona Sol in Blood and Sand (1921).
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After many years' experience onstage in productions including The Deep Purple (a play by her future husband, Paul Armstrong), in 1910, she entered films via Keeney Pictures Corporation in A Romance of the Underworld (1918; based on a play in which she had appeared onstage).
Other films in which she appeared include Marriage, Out of the Night, Career of Katherine Bush, Marriage for Convenience, and Fires of Faith. Around 1920 she was a star of Vitagraph Studios.
Calvert married Paul Armstrong in New Haven in 1913. They remained wed until his death in 1915. She later married Canadian grain exporter George A. Carruthers.
In 1971, Calvert died in Uniondale, New York, at age 80.
Known for
Dead Men Tell No Tales
November 1, 1920
The Green Caravan
November 1, 1922
You Find it Everywhere
July 1, 1921
Outcast
September 10, 1917
Marriage for Convenience
February 3, 1919
Fires of Faith
August 3, 1919
Moral Fibre
September 18, 1921
That Woman
December 31, 1922
Out to Win
August 1, 1923
Out of the Night
August 11, 1918
A Romance of the Underworld
June 30, 1918
House of Cards
June 4, 1917
Acting21
- 1923Out to Win as Auriole Craven
- 1923The Indian Love Lyrics as Queen Vashti
- 1922That Woman as Adora Winstanley
- 1922The Green Caravan as Gypsy
- 1921Moral Fibre as Grace Elmore
- 1921You Find it Everywhere as Nora Gorodna
- 1921The Heart of Maryland as Maryland Calvert
- 1920Dead Men Tell No Tales as Eva Dennison
- 1919Fires of Faith as Elizabeth Blake
- 1919The Career of Katherine Bush