Catherine Calvert

Also Known As: Catherine Cassidy

Biography: 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). 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Birthday: April 20, 1890

Deathday: January 18, 1971

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

1.00%

Known For:

The Green Caravan
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Out of the Night
A Romance of the Underworld
House of Cards
You Find it Everywhere
Partners
The Peddler
Think It Over
Behind the Mask
Outcast
The Uphill Path
Marriage
Marriage for Convenience
Fires of Faith
The Career of Katherine Bush
The Heart of Maryland
Moral Fibre
That Woman
The Indian Love Lyrics
Out to Win