Claire Du Brey
Born: 1892-08-30 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
Died: 1993-08-01
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1959
- Escort West as Mrs. Kate Fenniman
1958
- Frontier Gun as Bess Loveman
- Hot Rod Gang as Agatha, the maid
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie as Madame Odin
- Lust for Life as Housekeeper
1954
- Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Spectator (uncredited)
1953
- Where's Raymond? as Angela
- 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)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Mrs. Grimsby
1948
- Out of the Storm as Mrs. Smith
- Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Housekeeper
- Lightnin' in the Forest as Martha
- French Leave as Mom LaFarge
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Second Lady in Michel's
- Ivy as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
- Bells of San Fernando as Manta
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
- Cloak and Dagger
- The Secret of the Whistler as Laura - Harrison's Servant
- The Invisible Informer as Martha Baylor
- The Catman of Paris as Servant (uncredited)
- Don Ricardo Returns as Mama Teresa
1945
- Dakota as Wahtonka
- A Song to Remember as Madame Mercier (uncredited)
- Star in the Night as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
1944
- Dragon Seed as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
- Lights of Old Santa Fe as Rosie McGurk
- Oh, What a Night! as Petrie
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
- No Place for a Lady as Apartment House Manager
1942
- Now, Voyager as Hilda (uncredited)
- The Magnificent Dope as Peter's Secretary
- A Close Call for Ellery Queen as Housekeeper
- Bells of Capistrano as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
1941
- Blossoms in the Dust as Nurse at Sammy's Birth
- Private Nurse as Flower Shop Manager
- Rise and Shine as Miss Pinkham
1940
- The Shop Around the Corner as Customer (uncredited)
- The Blue Bird as Nurse (uncredited)
- Virginia City as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
- All This, and Heaven Too as Nun (uncredited)
- Brigham Young as Emma Smith
- Forty Little Mothers as Gym Teacher
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Party Guest (uncredited)
- High School as Miss Huggins
- Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Sarah Walters
- Black Diamonds as Henderson's Secretary
1939
- Jesse James as Mrs. Bob Ford
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Landlady
- Juarez as Woman (uncredited)
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Secretary
- Sergeant Madden as Nurse
- Within the Law as Prison Librarian
- Coast Guard as First Nurse (uncredited)
- Swanee River as Woman in Cafe
- Hotel for Women
- Four Wives as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
- Never Say Die as Hotel Guest
- Tell No Tales as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
- South of the Border as Dueña
- Chicken Wagon Family as Mrs. Kelsey
- See Your Doctor as Nurse
- Everybody's Baby as Nurse Cordell
1938
- The Baroness and the Butler as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
- Marie Antoinette as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
- That Certain Age as Horsewoman
- Little Miss Broadway as Miss Blodgett
- Men with Wings as Edith
- The Affairs of Annabel as Convict (uncredited)
- One Wild Night as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
- Walking Down Broadway as Claybourne's Secretary
- The Strange Case of Dr. Meade as Mrs. Thurber
- Miracle Money as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
1937
- Topper as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
- Nothing Sacred as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
- Dangerously Yours as Ship Passenger
- Blossoms On Broadway as Fake Nurse (uncredited)
- Mountain Justice as Woman with Baby
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Miss Farrell
- The Wrong Road as Matron (uncredited)
- The Lady Escapes as Woman in theater (uncredited)
- Man Of The People as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
1936
- Small Town Girl as Bit Role (uncredited)
- The Devil-Doll as Mathilde Coulvet
- Ramona as Marda
1935
- Vagabond Lady as R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)
- Life Begins at Forty as Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
1934
- Blind Date as Head Saleswoman
- Viva Villa! as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
- Jane Eyre as Bertha Rochester
- Among the Missing as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
- This Side of Heaven as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
- The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Edith Crawford
- Night Flight as Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
- Broadway to Hollywood as Aunt Clara
- Gabriel Over the White House as Nurse
- Made on Broadway as Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary
- Shadows of Sing Sing as Angela Crane
1932
- Prosperity as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
- Arsène Lupin as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
- Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
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
- The Devil Dancer as Audrey
1926
- Miss Nobody as Ann Adams
- The Exquisite Sinner as Dominique's Sister
1925
- Drusilla with a Million as Daphne Thornton
- Infatuation as Pasha's Wife
- The Girl of Gold as Edith Loring
1924
- The Sea Hawk as Siren
- Borrowed Husbands as Peggy Fleurette
1923
- Ponjola as Luchia Luff
- The Voice from the Minaret as Countess La Fontaine
1922
- You Never Know as Inez
- Glass Houses as Mrs. Vicky
- Only a Shop Girl as Mrs. Watkins
- The Ordeal as Elise
- To Have and to Hold as Patience Worth
- When Love Comes as Marie Jamison
1921
- The Hole in the Wall as Cora Thompson
- That Girl Montana as Lottie
- The Bronze Bell as Nairaini
- I Am Guilty as Trixie
- My Lady's Latchkey as Countess Santiago
1920
- The Heart of a Child as Lady Dorothea
- The House of Whispers as Nettie Kelly
- Life's Twist as Mrs. Helen Sutton
- The Walk-Offs as Mrs. Elliott
- Perilous Valley
- A Light Woman as Jeanne DuPre
- The Green Flame as Lou Tremaine
1919
- A Man in the Open as Polly
- The Wishing Ring Man as Gale Maddox
- What Every Woman Wants as Sylvia
- Modern Husbands as Myrtle Cosgrove
- Dangerous Hours as Sophia Guerni
- A Man And His Money as Varda Ropers
- The World Aflame as Emma Reich
- The Sawdust Doll as Rose Budd
- The Spite Bride as Trixie Dennis
- The Devil's Trail as Dubec's Wife
- When Fate Decides as Alicia Carteret
- The Old Maid's Baby as Sylvia Deane
- The Ghost Girl
1918
- The Magic Eye as Mrs. Bowman
- Modern Love as Myrtle Harris
- Madame Spy as Baroness Von Hulda
- The Risky Road as Mrs. Kingston
- Prisoners of the Pines as Louise
- Brace Up as Ellen Miles
- Social Briars as Helen Manning
- Border Raiders as Cleo Dade
- Up Romance Road as Hilda
- Midnight Madness as Lola Montez
- The Human Target as Thelma Von Styne
1917
- The Honor of an Outlaw as The Railroad President's Daughter
- Anything Once as Señorita Paprika
- The Piper's Price as Jessica's Maid
- Perils of the Secret Service as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
- Follow the Girl as Donna
- Pay Me! as Nita
- The Winged Mystery as Gerda Anderson
- The Rescue as Henriette
- A 44-Calibre Mystery as Kitty Flanders
- Triumph as Lillian Du Pon
- The Fighting Gringo as May Smith
- The Almost Good Man as Kitty Manville
- Hair-Trigger Burke as The Vamp
- The Honeymoon Surprise as Mrs. Hardman
- The Clash of Steel as Princess Seraphina
- The Reward of the Faithless as Princess Dione
- The Drifter as Dora Mason
- Six-Shooter Justice as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter