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.

Movies with Catherine Calvert

Outcast

Sep 10, 1917

The Career of Katherine Bush

Aug 3, 1919

Marriage for Convenience

Feb 3, 1919

The Heart of Maryland

May 1, 1921

6.0

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Nov 1, 1920

Fires of Faith

Aug 3, 1919

The Uphill Path

Oct 1, 1918

House of Cards

Jun 4, 1917

The Green Caravan

Nov 1, 1922

A Romance of the Underworld

Jun 30, 1918

You Find it Everywhere

Jul 1, 1921

The Indian Love Lyrics

Jul 1, 1923