Catherine Calvert

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.

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

The Peddler

Behind the Mask

Filmography

1923 Out to Win

as Auriole Craven

1923 The Indian Love Lyrics

as Queen Vashti

1922 That Woman

as Adora Winstanley

1922 The Green Caravan

as Gypsy

1921 Moral Fibre

as Grace Elmore

1921 You Find it Everywhere

as Nora Gorodna

1921 The Heart of Maryland

as Maryland Calvert

1920 Dead Men Tell No Tales

as Eva Dennison

1919 Fires of Faith

as Elizabeth Blake

1919 The Career of Katherine Bush

as Katherine Bush

1919 Marriage for Convenience

as Natalie Rand

1918 Marriage

as Eileen Spencer

1918 The Uphill Path

as Ruth Travers

1918 Out of the Night

as Rosalie Lane

1918 A Romance of the Underworld

as Doris Elliott

1917 Outcast

as Valentine

1917 Behind the Mask

as Margaret Stanton

1917 Think It Over

as Alice Rowland

1917 The Peddler

as Sarah

1917 House of Cards

as Mrs. Manning