# Gertrude Robinson

Gertrude Robinson (Nova York, 7 d’octubre de 1890 – Hollywood (Califòrnia), 19 de març de 1962) va ser una actriu infantil de teatre i de cinema mut.

## Biografia

Gertrude Robinson va néixer i es va educar a Nova York. Va iniciar la seva carrera artística als quatre anys com a actriu infantil al teatre en el paper d’Eliza a l’obra “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Entre papers en les obres en les que va participar es poden esmentar el de Joseph a “Sapho” (1900) amb Olga Nethersole, una de les nenes de l’obra a “The Bonnie Briar Bush” (1901), “The Fistborn”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Menie ja crescuda a “Rip Van Winkle” i Tierza a “Ben Hur”, amb William S. Hart i Dustin Farnum.
El 1908 Inicià la seva carrera cinematogràfica amb 18 anys de mà de la Biograph, on coincidiria amb el seu futur marit James Kirkwood. Tot i ser moltes vegades actriu secundària, a la Biograph protagonitzà algunes pel·lícules de D. W. Griffith com “Pippa Passes” (1909) o “What the Daisy Said” (1910). El 1911 va passar a la Reliance on fou protagonista de la majoria de pel·lícules que interpretà. Posteriorment, el 1913, passà a la Victor on seria dirigida en moltes de les pel·lícules per James Kirkwood, amb qui s'acabà casant el 30 de setembre de 1916. El 1914, ella i Kirkwood retornaren a la Biograph per participar en nombrosos curts protagonitzats per Blanche Sweet. A partir de 1916 actuaria per diverses productores (Famous Players, Gaumont) però la seva carrera aniria minvant i ja no consta cap en cap pel·lícula sonora. Va morir el 19 de març als 71 anys.

## Filmografia
### Biograph (1908-1910)

* The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
* The Test of Friendship (1908)
* An Awful Moment (1908)
* One Touch of Nature (1909)
* The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)
* Those Awful Hats (1909)
* The Cord of Life (1909)
* The Girls and Daddy (1909)
* A Burglar's Mistake (1909)
* Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)
* The Drive for a Life (1909)
* Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)
* Two Memories (1909)
* The Way of Man (1909)
* They Would Elope (1909)
* The Sealed Room (1909)
* The Little Darling (1909)
* The Hessian Renegades (1909)
* Getting Even (1909)
* The Broken Locket (1909)
* In Old Kentucky (1909)
* A Fair Exchange (1909)
* Pippa Passes (1909)
* The Little Teacher (1909)
* His Lost Love (1909)
* The Expiation (1909)
* Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)
* What's Your Hurry? (1909)
* The Gibson Goddess (1909)
* Nursing a Viper (1909)
* The Light That Came (1909)
* The Restoration (1909)
* Two Women and a Man (1909)
* The Open Gate (1909)
* The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
* The Trick That Failed (1909)
* In the Window Recess (1909)
* The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)
* Through the Breakers (1909)
* A Corner in Wheat (1909)
* In Little Italy (1909)
* To Save Her Soul (1909)
* The Day After (1909)
* The Heart of an Outlaw' (1909)
* The Woman from Mellon's (1910)
* The Duke's Plan (1910)
* One Night, and Then — (1910)
* The Englishman and the Girl (1910)
* The Newlyweds (1910)
* The Love of Lady Irma (1910)
* Gold Is Not All (1910)
* The Purgation (1910)
* Never Again (1910)
* A Midnight Cupid (1910)
* What the Daisy Said (1910)
* A Child's Faith (1910)
* A Flash of Light (1910)
* As the Bells Rang Out! (1910)
* A Salutary Lesson (1910)
* The Usurer (1910)
* An Old Story with a New Ending (1910)
* The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
* Wilful Peggy (1910)
* The Affair of an Egg (1910)
* A Summer Idyll (1910)
* A Mohawk's Way (1910)
* In Life's Cycle (1910)
* A Summer Tragedy (1910)
* The Oath and the Man (1910)
* Rose O'Salem Town (1910)
* Examination Day at School (1910)
* That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
* The Masher (1910)
* The Two Paths (1911)

### Reliance (1911-1913)

* The Broken Doll (1910)
* In the Gray of the Dawn (1910)
* The Vows (1911)
* Souls Courageous (1911)
* Her Mother's Sins (1911)
* In the Tepee's Light (1911)
* The Harvest (1911)
* The Orphan (1911)
* Thou Shalt Not Steal (1911)
* His Dream (1911)
* The Cobbler (1911)
* For His Sake (1911)
* A Narrow Escape (1911)
* Divorce (1911)
* The Greater Love (1911)
* The Track Walker (1911)
* The Moonshiners (1911)
* A Daughter of Italy (1911)
* The Birth-Mark (1911)
* The Gangfighter (1912)
* The Deception (1912)
* Solomon's Son (1912)
* The Stolen Letter (1912)
* Wanted a Wife (1912)
* The Gambler's Daughter (1912)
* The Better Man (1912)
* Jealousy (1912)
* A Tragic Experiment (1912)
* Fur Smugglers (1912)
* When the Heart Calls (1912)
* Love Is Blind (1912)
* The Return of John Gray (1912)
* The Recoil (1912)
* The Miser's Daughter (1912)
* Father Beauclaire (1912)
* His Mother's Son (1912)
* Kaintuck (1912)
* Votes for Women (1912)
* Before the White Man Came (1912)
* Grandpa (1912)
* At Cripple Creek (1912)
* Love Me, Love My Dog (1912)
* The Wood Nymph (1912)
* Phillip Steele (1912)
* The Two Fathers (1912)
* North of Fifty-Three (1912)
* The True Love (1912)
* A Man Among Men (1912)
* One Against One (1912)
* Love Knows No Laws (1912)
* For Love of Her (1912)
* Caleb West (1912)
* The Geranium (1912)
* The Peddler's Find (1912)
* Men Who Dare (1912)
* Trials of Faith (1912)
* The Faith Healer (1912)
* Joe's Reward (1912)
* The Old Mam'selle's Secret (1912)
* The Fires of Conscience (1912)
* Duty and the Man (1913)
* A Jolly Good Fellow (1913)
* The Open Road (1913)
* The Strike Leader (1913)
* Bud Tilton, Mail Thief (1913)
* The Bells (1913)
* Just Jane (1913)
* The Vengeance of Heaven (1913)

### Victor (1913)

* The Prima Donna (1913)
* Loneliness and Love (1913)
* The Unseen Influence (1913)
* The Unknown (1913)
* Good for Evil (1913)
* The Plaything (1913)
* The Kidnapped Train (1913)
* Sincerity (1913)
* His Daughter (1913)
* Brother and Sister (1913)
* A Modern Witness (1913)
* A Nihilist Vengeance (1913)
* Marooned (1913)
* In After Years (1913)
* Nature's Vengeance (1913)
* The Ghost (1913)
* His Vacation (1913)
* A Bride from the Sea (1913)
* The Wedding Gown (1913)

### Biograph (1913-1915)

* The Girl Across the Way (1913)
* A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
* The Sentimental Sister (1914)
* Classmates (1914)
* Judith of Bethulia (1914)
* Strongheart (1914)
* Men and Women (1914)
* Colomba (1915)
* The Gambler of the West (1915)
* The Indian (1916)

### Actuacions posteriors per diverses companyies

* Fires of Conscience (1914, Nestor)
* Beverly of Graustark (1914, Klaw & Erlanger)
* May Blossom (1915) (Famous Players Film Co.)
* The Arab (1915, Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.)
* The Concealed Truth (1915, Ivan Film Prod.)
* As a Woman Sows (1916, Gaumont Co.)
* The Haunted Manor (1916, Gaumont Co.)
* The Quality of Faith (1916, Gaumont Co.)
* Flames of Vengeance (1918, Gaumont Co.)
* The Yellow Hound (1918) Supreme Film Co.)
* A Woman of Impulse (1918, Famous Players-Lasky Corp.)
* A Gay Old Dog (1919, Hobart Henley Prod. Inc.)
* Milestones (1920, Goldwyn Pictures Corp.)
* Wellcome to Our City (1922, San Antonio Pictures)
* On Thin Ice (1925, Warner Bros.)

## Referències

* ↑ «Gertrude Robinson» (en anglès americà). Internet Movie Database (IMDb). [Consulta: 14 abril 2023].
* 1 2 3 4 «Studio Directory». Motion Picture News XIV, 16, secció 2, 21 d’octubre 1916, pàg. 83.
* 1 2 Hoffman, Hugh «In the Catskills with Reliance». Moving Picture World 13, 8, 24 d’agost 1912, pàg. 748-751.
* 1 2 «Kirkwood – Robinson». Moving Picture World, 21 d’octubre 1916, pàg. 412.
* ↑ «Obituaries Gertrude Robinson». Variety, 28-03-1962, pàg. 63.

## Enllaços externs

* Filmografia de Gertrude Robinson al catàleg de l'American Film Institute