Claire Du Brey
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.
Known For
Credits
- 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 as
- 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
- 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 as
- 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 Mme. 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 · You Never Know as Inez
- 1922 · When Love Comes as Marie Jamison
- 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 as
- 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 as
- 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 · What Every Woman Wants as Sylvia
- 1919 · A Man in the Open as Polly
- 1919 · The Old Maid's Baby as Sylvia Deane
- 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. Miles 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 as
- 1916 · Peggy as