Catherine Calvert
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Green Caravan
as Gypsy 1922
Out of the Night
as Rosalie Lane 1918
A Romance of the Underworld
as Doris Elliott 1918
House of Cards
as Mrs. Manning 1917
You Find it Everywhere
as Nora Gorodna 1921
Partners
as Kate Kingsley 1916
The Peddler
as Sarah 1917
Think It Over
as Alice Rowland 1917
Behind the Mask
as Margaret Stanton 1917
Outcast
as Valentine 1917
The Uphill Path
as Ruth Travers 1918
Marriage
as Eileen Spencer 1918
Marriage for Convenience
as Natalie Rand 1919
Fires of Faith
as Elizabeth Blake 1919
The Career of Katherine Bush
as Katherine Bush 1919
The Heart of Maryland
as Maryland Calvert 1921