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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-08-30 (132 years old)

Place of Birth

Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA

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

Acting

1959

Escort West as Mrs. Kate Fenniman

1958

Hot Rod Gang as Agatha, the maid
Frontier Gun as Bess Loveman

1956

Lust for Life as Housekeeper

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

1948

Out of the Storm as Mrs. Smith
Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Housekeeper
French Leave as Mom LaFarge

1947

The Bishop's Wife as Second Lady in Michel's
Ivy as Shopkeeper (uncredited)

1946

The Secret of the Whistler as Laura - Harrison's Servant
Don Ricardo Returns as Mama Teresa
The Invisible Informer as Martha Baylor
The Catman of Paris as Servant (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives as Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)

1945

Star in the Night as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
Dakota as Wahtonka
A Song to Remember as Madame Mercier (uncredited)

1944

Lights of Old Santa Fe as Rosie McGurk
Dragon Seed as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)

1943

Heaven Can Wait as Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
No Place for a Lady as Apartment House Manager

1942

Bells of Capistrano as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
Now, Voyager as Hilda (uncredited)
The Magnificent Dope as Peter's Secretary

1941

Private Nurse as Flower Shop Manager
Rise and Shine as Miss Pinkham
Blossoms in the Dust as Nurse at Sammy's Birth

1940

High School as Miss Huggins
The Blue Bird as Nurse (uncredited)
The Shop Around the Corner as Customer (uncredited)
Brigham Young as Emma Smith
Virginia City as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife as Party Guest (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too as Nun (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers as Gym Teacher
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
Black Diamonds as Henderson's Secretary

1939

Jesse James as Mrs. Bob Ford
Tell No Tales as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
Within the Law as Prison Librarian
Never Say Die as Hotel Guest
Juarez as Woman (uncredited)
Coast Guard as First Nurse (uncredited)
Chicken Wagon Family as Mrs. Kelsey
Four Wives as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
Swanee River as Woman in Cafe
Everybody's Baby as Nurse Cordell

1938

Miracle Money as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
Little Miss Broadway as Miss Blodgett
The Baroness and the Butler as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
One Wild Night as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
The Affairs of Annabel as Convict (uncredited)
That Certain Age as Horsewoman
Walking Down Broadway as Claybourne's Secretary
Marie Antoinette as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)

1937

Man Of The People as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
Mountain Justice as Woman with Baby
The Lady Escapes as Woman in theater (uncredited)
Dangerously Yours as Ship Passenger
Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Miss Farrell
Nothing Sacred as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
Topper as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
The Wrong Road as Matron (uncredited)
Blossoms On Broadway as Fake Nurse (uncredited)

1936

Ramona as Marda
The Devil-Doll as Mme. Coulvet
Small Town Girl as Bit Role (uncredited)

1935

Life Begins at Forty as Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
Vagabond Lady as R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)

1934

This Side of Heaven as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
Jane Eyre as Bertha Rochester
Blind Date as Head Saleswoman
Among the Missing as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
Viva Villa! as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra

1933

The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Edith Crawford
Broadway to Hollywood as Aunt Clara
Night Flight as Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
Made on Broadway as Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary

1932

Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
Prosperity as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)

1931

Politics as Rally Leader

1930

Renegades as Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
For the Love o' Lil as Mrs. Gardner

1929

Two Sisters as Rose

1927

1926

The Exquisite Sinner as Dominique's Sister
Miss Nobody as Ann Adams

1925

The Girl of Gold as Edith Loring
Drusilla with a Million as Daphne Thornton
Infatuation as Pasha's Wife

1924

Borrowed Husbands as Peggy Fleurette
The Sea Hawk as Siren

1923

Ponjola as Luchia Luff
The Voice from the Minaret as Countess La Fontaine

1922

Only a Shop Girl as Mrs. Watkins
Glass Houses as Mrs. Vicky
The Ordeal as Elise
When Love Comes as Marie Jamison
To Have and to Hold as Patience Worth

1921

My Lady's Latchkey as Countess Santiago
The Bronze Bell as Nairaini
The Hole in the Wall as Cora Thompson
I Am Guilty as Trixie

1920

The Heart of a Child as Lady Dorothea
The Walk-Offs as Mrs. Elliott
The Green Flame as Lou Tremaine
Life's Twist as Mrs. Helen Sutton
A Light Woman as Jeanne DuPre
The House of Whispers as Nettie Kelly

1919

The Old Maid's Baby as Sylvia Deane
The Sawdust Doll as Rose Budd
Modern Husbands as Myrtle Cosgrove
When Fate Decides as Alicia Carteret
The Devil's Trail as Dubec's Wife
The World Aflame as Emma Reich
Dangerous Hours as Sophia Guerni
The Spite Bride as Trixie Dennis
A Man And His Money as Varda Ropers
The Wishing Ring Man as Gale Maddox

1918

Madame Spy as Baroness Von Hulda
Social Briars as Helen Manning
Midnight Madness as Lola Montez
The Human Target as Thelma Von Styne
Modern Love as Myrtle Harris
Brace Up as Ellen Miles
The Risky Road as Mrs. Miles Kingston
The Magic Eye as Mrs. Bowman
Border Raiders as Cleo Dade

1917

Pay Me! as Nita
The Drifter as Dora Mason
Hair-Trigger Burke as The Vamp
The Honor of an Outlaw as The Railroad President's Daughter
A 44-Calibre Mystery as Kitty Flanders
The Almost Good Man as Kitty Manville
The Honeymoon Surprise as Mrs. Hardman
Perils of the Secret Service as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
The Clash of Steel as Princess Seraphina
Six-Shooter Justice as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
Triumph as Lillian Du Pon
Anything Once as Señorita Paprika
The Piper's Price as Jessica's Maid
The Reward of the Faithless as Princess Dione
The Rescue as Henriette
The Winged Mystery as Gerda Anderson
The Fighting Gringo as May Smith

1916