Claire Du Brey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1892-08-30

Place of Birth

Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA

Claire Du Brey

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubrey, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. Du Brey's screen career began with Universal Studios and she played at one time or another with almost all the larger companies. More notable films in which she appeared were Anything Once (1917), Social Briars (1918), The Devil's Trail (1919), What Every Woman Wants (1919) and Dangerous Hours (1919). Other films include The Wishing Ring Man, The Spite Bride, The World Aflame, and The Walk Offs. Her career declined with the sound era and she later played mostly small roles. Du Brey was proficient in athletics, excelling in swimming, riding, golfing, tennis and motoring. She was five feet seven inches high, weighed 130 pounds and had auburn hair and brown eyes, and took a lively interest in horticulture.

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Acting History

1959
Escort West as Mrs. Kate Fenniman
1958
Frontier Gun as Bess Loveman
1958
Hot Rod Gang as Agatha, the maid
1956
Lust for Life as Housekeeper
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie as Madame Odin
1953
Where's Raymond? as Angela
1953
Raiders of the Seven Seas as Señora Salcedo
1952
Four Star Playhouse as Mrs. Miggs
1951
Ace in the Hole as Spinster (uncredited)
1950
Cinderella as (credit only) (voice)
1949
Samson and Delilah as Temple Spectator (uncredited)
1949
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Mrs. Grimsby
1948
Out of the Storm as Mrs. Smith
1948
French Leave as Mom LaFarge
1948
Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Housekeeper
1948
Lightnin' in the Forest as Martha
1947
The Bishop's Wife as Second Lady in Michel's
1947
Ivy as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
1947
Bells of San Fernando as Manta
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives as Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
1946
The Secret of the Whistler as Laura - Harrison's Servant
1946
Don Ricardo Returns as Mama Teresa
1946
Cloak and Dagger
1946
The Invisible Informer as Martha Baylor
1946
The Catman of Paris as Servant (uncredited)
1945
Dakota as Wahtonka
1945
Star in the Night as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
1945
A Song to Remember as Madame Mercier (uncredited)
1944
Lights of Old Santa Fe as Rosie McGurk
1944
Oh, What a Night! as Petrie
1944
Dragon Seed as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
1943
Heaven Can Wait as Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
1943
No Place for a Lady as Apartment House Manager
1942
Now, Voyager as Hilda (uncredited)
1942
Bells of Capistrano as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
1942
The Magnificent Dope as Peter's Secretary
1942
A Close Call for Ellery Queen as Housekeeper
1941
Rise and Shine as Miss Pinkham
1941
Private Nurse as Flower Shop Manager
1941
Blossoms in the Dust as Nurse at Sammy's Birth
1940
Brigham Young as Emma Smith
1940
Black Diamonds as Henderson's Secretary
1940
All This, and Heaven Too as Nun (uncredited)
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
1940
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Sarah Walters
1940
Forty Little Mothers as Gym Teacher
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife as Party Guest (uncredited)
1940
Virginia City as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
1940
High School as Miss Huggins
1940
The Blue Bird as Nurse (uncredited)
1940
The Shop Around the Corner as Customer (uncredited)
1939
Swanee River as Woman in Cafe
1939
Four Wives as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
1939
See Your Doctor as Nurse
1939
South of the Border as Dueña
1939
Chicken Wagon Family as Mrs. Kelsey
1939
Coast Guard as First Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Hotel for Women
1939
Tell No Tales as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
1939
Juarez as Woman (uncredited)
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Landlady
1939
Sergeant Madden as Nurse
1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Secretary
1939
Everybody's Baby as Nurse Cordell
1939
Within the Law as Prison Librarian
1939
Never Say Die as Hotel Guest
1939
Jesse James as Mrs. Bob Ford
1938
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade as Mrs. Thurber
1938
That Certain Age as Horsewoman
1938
The Affairs of Annabel as Convict (uncredited)
1938
Marie Antoinette as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
1938
Little Miss Broadway as Miss Blodgett
1938
Men with Wings as Edith
1938
One Wild Night as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
1938
Miracle Money as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
1938
Walking Down Broadway as Claybourne's Secretary
1938
The Baroness and the Butler as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
1937
Nothing Sacred as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
1937
Blossoms On Broadway as Fake Nurse (uncredited)
1937
The Wrong Road as Matron (uncredited)
1937
Dangerously Yours as Ship Passenger
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Miss Farrell
1937
The Lady Escapes as Woman in theater (uncredited)
1937
Topper as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
1937
Mountain Justice as Woman with Baby
1937
Man Of The People as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
1936
Ramona as Marda
1936
The Devil-Doll as Mathilde Coulvet
1936
Small Town Girl as Bit Role (uncredited)
1935
Vagabond Lady as R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)
1935
Life Begins at Forty as Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
1934
Among the Missing as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
1934
Jane Eyre as Bertha Rochester
1934
Blind Date as Head Saleswoman
1934
Viva Villa! as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
1934
This Side of Heaven as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Edith Crawford
1933
Night Flight as Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
1933
Broadway to Hollywood as Aunt Clara
1933
Made on Broadway as Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary
1933
Gabriel Over the White House as Nurse
1932
Prosperity as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
1932
Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
1932
Arsène Lupin as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
1931
Politics as Rally Leader
1930
Renegades as Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
1930
For the Love o' Lil as Mrs. Gardner
1929
Two Sisters as Rose
1927
The Devil Dancer as Audrey
1926
Miss Nobody as Ann Adams
1926
The Exquisite Sinner as Dominique's Sister
1925
Infatuation as Pasha's Wife
1925
Drusilla with a Million as Daphne Thornton
1925
The Girl of Gold as Edith Loring
1924
The Sea Hawk as Siren
1924
Borrowed Husbands as Peggy Fleurette
1923
Ponjola as Luchia Luff
1923
The Voice from the Minaret as Countess La Fontaine
1922
Only a Shop Girl as Mrs. Watkins
1922
When Love Comes as Marie Jamison
1922
You Never Know as Inez
1922
To Have and to Hold as Patience Worth
1922
The Ordeal as Elise
1922
Glass Houses as Mrs. Vicky
1921
The Hole in the Wall as Cora Thompson
1921
The Bronze Bell as Nairaini
1921
I Am Guilty as Trixie
1921
That Girl Montana as Lottie
1921
My Lady's Latchkey as Countess Santiago
1920
The House of Whispers as Nettie Kelly
1920
A Light Woman as Jeanne DuPre
1920
Life's Twist as Mrs. Helen Sutton
1920
The Green Flame as Lou Tremaine
1920
The Heart of a Child as Lady Dorothea
1920
The Walk-Offs as Mrs. Elliott
1920
Perilous Valley
1919
Dangerous Hours as Sophia Guerni
1919
The Spite Bride as Trixie Dennis
1919
The World Aflame as Emma Reich
1919
The Devil's Trail as Dubec's Wife
1919
When Fate Decides as Alicia Carteret
1919
The Ghost Girl
1919
Modern Husbands as Myrtle Cosgrove
1919
The Sawdust Doll as Rose Budd
1919
A Man And His Money as Varda Ropers
1919
The Wishing Ring Man as Gale Maddox
1919
The Old Maid's Baby as Sylvia Deane
1919
What Every Woman Wants as Sylvia
1919
A Man in the Open as Polly
1918
Border Raiders as Cleo Dade
1918
Prisoners of the Pines as Louise
1918
Modern Love as Myrtle Harris
1918
The Human Target as Thelma Von Styne
1918
Up Romance Road as Hilda
1918
Midnight Madness as Lola Montez
1918
Social Briars as Helen Manning
1918
The Risky Road as Mrs. Kingston
1918
The Magic Eye as Mrs. Bowman
1918
Brace Up as Ellen Miles
1918
Madame Spy as Baroness Von Hulda
1917
The Winged Mystery as Gerda Anderson
1917
Anything Once as Señorita Paprika
1917
Triumph as Lillian Du Pon
1917
Pay Me! as Nita
1917
Follow the Girl as Donna
1917
The Rescue as Henriette
1917
Six-Shooter Justice as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
1917
The Almost Good Man as Kitty Manville
1917
A 44-Calibre Mystery as Kitty Flanders
1917
The Honor of an Outlaw as The Railroad President's Daughter
1917
Hair-Trigger Burke as The Vamp
1917
The Fighting Gringo as May Smith
1917
The Clash of Steel as Princess Seraphina
1917
The Drifter as Dora Mason
1917
Perils of the Secret Service as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
1917
The Reward of the Faithless as Princess Dione
1917
The Honeymoon Surprise as Mrs. Hardman
1917
The Piper's Price as Jessica's Maid
1916
Civilization
1916
Peggy