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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 30, 1892
Place of Birth:
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
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Claire Du Brey
Biography
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Escort West | Mrs. Kate Fenniman |
| 1958 | Hot Rod Gang | Agatha, the maid |
| 1958 | Frontier Gun | Bess Loveman |
| 1956 | Lust for Life | Housekeeper |
| 1953 | Raiders of the Seven Seas | Señora Salcedo |
| 1951 | Ace in the Hole | Spinster (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Cinderella | (credit only) (voice) |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | Temple Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff | Mrs. Grimsby |
| 1948 | Lightnin' in the Forest | Martha |
| 1948 | Out of the Storm | Mrs. Smith |
| 1948 | Who Killed Doc Robbin? | Housekeeper |
| 1948 | French Leave | Mom LaFarge |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Second Lady in Michel's |
| 1947 | Ivy | Shopkeeper (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Bells of San Fernando | Manta |
| 1946 | The Secret of the Whistler | Laura - Harrison's Servant |
| 1946 | Don Ricardo Returns | Mama Teresa |
| 1946 | The Invisible Informer | Martha Baylor |
| 1946 | The Catman of Paris | Servant (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | |
| 1945 | Star in the Night | Traveler's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Dakota | Wahtonka |
| 1945 | A Song to Remember | Madame Mercier (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Lights of Old Santa Fe | Rosie McGurk |
| 1944 | Dragon Seed | Hysterical Woman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Oh, What a Night! | Petrie |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait | Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1943 | No Place for a Lady | Apartment House Manager |
| 1942 | A Close Call for Ellery Queen | Housekeeper |
| 1942 | Bells of Capistrano | Melinda (Ma) McCracken |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Hilda (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Dope | Peter's Secretary |
| 1941 | Private Nurse | Flower Shop Manager |
| 1941 | Rise and Shine | Miss Pinkham |
| 1941 | Blossoms in the Dust | Nurse at Sammy's Birth |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Sarah Walters |
| 1940 | High School | Miss Huggins |
| 1940 | The Blue Bird | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Shop Around the Corner | Customer (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Brigham Young | Emma Smith |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Doctor Takes a Wife | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Nun (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Forty Little Mothers | Gym Teacher |
| 1940 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | Mrs. Hackett (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Black Diamonds | Henderson's Secretary |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Landlady |
| 1939 | Jesse James | Mrs. Bob Ford |
| 1939 | Tell No Tales | Miss Arnold (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Secretary |
| 1939 | Within the Law | Prison Librarian |
| 1939 | Never Say Die | Hotel Guest |
| 1939 | Juarez | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Coast Guard | First Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Chicken Wagon Family | Mrs. Kelsey |
| 1939 | Four Wives | Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Swanee River | Woman in Cafe |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Nurse |
| 1939 | South of the Border | Dueña |
| 1939 | Everybody's Baby | Nurse Cordell |
| 1939 | Hotel for Women | |
| 1939 | See Your Doctor | Nurse |
| 1938 | The Strange Case of Dr. Meade | Mrs. Thurber |
| 1938 | Miracle Money | Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel |
| 1938 | Little Miss Broadway | Miss Blodgett |
| 1938 | The Baroness and the Butler | Martha - Kartina's Secretary |
| 1938 | One Wild Night | Miss Thomas (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Affairs of Annabel | Convict (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Men with Wings | Edith |
| 1938 | That Certain Age | Horsewoman |
| 1938 | Walking Down Broadway | Claybourne's Secretary |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Man Of The People | Mrs. Sagon (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Mountain Justice | Woman with Baby |
| 1937 | The Lady Escapes | Woman in theater (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Dangerously Yours | Ship Passenger |
| 1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Miss Farrell |
| 1937 | Nothing Sacred | Nurse Rafferty (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Topper | Sales Clerk (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road | Matron (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Blossoms On Broadway | Fake Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Ramona | Marda |
| 1936 | The Devil-Doll | Mme. Coulvet |
| 1936 | Small Town Girl | Bit Role (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Life Begins at Forty | Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether |
| 1935 | Vagabond Lady | R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1934 | This Side of Heaven | Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Jane Eyre | Bertha Rochester |
| 1934 | Blind Date | Head Saleswoman |
| 1934 | Among the Missing | Mrs. Alvin Abbott |
| 1934 | Viva Villa! | Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra |
| 1933 | The Sin of Nora Moran | Mrs. Edith Crawford |
| 1933 | Gabriel Over the White House | Nurse |
| 1933 | Broadway to Hollywood | Aunt Clara |
| 1933 | Night Flight | Santiago Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Made on Broadway | Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary |
| 1932 | Divorce In The Family | Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother |
| 1932 | Prosperity | Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Arsène Lupin | Mother at the Louvre (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Politics | Rally Leader |
| 1930 | Renegades | Eleanore's Maid (uncredited) |
| 1930 | For the Love o' Lil | Mrs. Gardner |
| 1929 | Two Sisters | Rose |
| 1927 | The Devil Dancer | Audrey |
| 1926 | The Exquisite Sinner | Dominique's Sister |
| 1926 | Miss Nobody | Ann Adams |
| 1925 | The Girl of Gold | Edith Loring |
| 1925 | Drusilla with a Million | Daphne Thornton |
| 1925 | Infatuation | Pasha's Wife |
| 1924 | Borrowed Husbands | Peggy Fleurette |
| 1924 | The Sea Hawk | Siren |
| 1923 | Ponjola | Luchia Luff |
| 1923 | The Voice from the Minaret | Countess La Fontaine |
| 1922 | Only a Shop Girl | Mrs. Watkins |
| 1922 | Glass Houses | Mrs. Vicky |
| 1922 | The Ordeal | Elise |
| 1922 | You Never Know | Inez |
| 1922 | When Love Comes | Marie Jamison |
| 1922 | To Have and to Hold | Patience Worth |
| 1921 | My Lady's Latchkey | Countess Santiago |
| 1921 | The Bronze Bell | Nairaini |
| 1921 | The Hole in the Wall | Cora Thompson |
| 1921 | That Girl Montana | Lottie |
| 1921 | I Am Guilty | Trixie |
| 1920 | The Heart of a Child | Lady Dorothea |
| 1920 | The Walk-Offs | Mrs. Elliott |
| 1920 | The Green Flame | Lou Tremaine |
| 1920 | Life's Twist | Mrs. Helen Sutton |
| 1920 | A Light Woman | Jeanne DuPre |
| 1920 | The House of Whispers | Nettie Kelly |
| 1920 | Perilous Valley | |
| 1919 | What Every Woman Wants | Sylvia |
| 1919 | The Old Maid's Baby | Sylvia Deane |
| 1919 | The Sawdust Doll | Rose Budd |
| 1919 | Modern Husbands | Myrtle Cosgrove |
| 1919 | The Ghost Girl | |
| 1919 | When Fate Decides | Alicia Carteret |
| 1919 | The Devil's Trail | Dubec's Wife |
| 1919 | The World Aflame | Emma Reich |
| 1919 | Dangerous Hours | Sophia Guerni |
| 1919 | A Man in the Open | Polly |
| 1919 | The Spite Bride | Trixie Dennis |
| 1919 | A Man And His Money | Varda Ropers |
| 1919 | The Wishing Ring Man | Gale Maddox |
| 1918 | Madame Spy | Baroness Von Hulda |
| 1918 | Up Romance Road | Hilda |
| 1918 | Social Briars | Helen Manning |
| 1918 | Midnight Madness | Lola Montez |
| 1918 | The Human Target | Thelma Von Styne |
| 1918 | Modern Love | Myrtle Harris |
| 1918 | Prisoners of the Pines | Louise |
| 1918 | Brace Up | Ellen Miles |
| 1918 | The Risky Road | Mrs. Miles Kingston |
| 1918 | The Magic Eye | Mrs. Bowman |
| 1918 | Border Raiders | Cleo Dade |
| 1917 | Pay Me! | Nita |
| 1917 | The Drifter | Dora Mason |
| 1917 | Hair-Trigger Burke | The Vamp |
| 1917 | The Honor of an Outlaw | The Railroad President's Daughter |
| 1917 | A 44-Calibre Mystery | Kitty Flanders |
| 1917 | The Almost Good Man | Kitty Manville |
| 1917 | The Honeymoon Surprise | Mrs. Hardman |
| 1917 | Perils of the Secret Service | Princess Seraphina (Episode #2) |
| 1917 | The Clash of Steel | Princess Seraphina |
| 1917 | Six-Shooter Justice | Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter |
| 1917 | Follow the Girl | Donna |
| 1917 | Triumph | Lillian Du Pon |
| 1917 | Anything Once | Señorita Paprika |
| 1917 | The Piper's Price | Jessica's Maid |
| 1917 | The Reward of the Faithless | Princess Dione |
| 1917 | The Rescue | Henriette |
| 1917 | The Winged Mystery | Gerda Anderson |
| 1917 | The Fighting Gringo | May Smith |
| 1916 | Peggy | |
| 1916 | Civilization |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Madame Odin |
| 1953 | Where's Raymond? | Angela |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mrs. Miggs |