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