Claire McDowell
Acting • Born 1877-10-31 – Died 1966-10-23
Biography
Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945. Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers. She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes. Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
254 credits
The New York Hat
Movie • 1912
The Main Gossip
The Big Parade
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Apperson
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie • 1925
Princess of Hur
Ponjola
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Hope
The Flaming Forest
Movie • 1926
Mrs. McTavish
The White Raven
Movie • 1917
Daisy
Captain of His Soul
Movie • 1918
Annette
Murder by Television
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Houghland
The Feud
Movie • 1919
Mary Lynch
The Fatal Wedding
Movie • 1914
The Switchtower
Movie • 1913
The Switchman's Wife
Tillie the Toiler
Movie • 1927
Ma Jones
The Baby and the Stork
Movie • 1912
The Mother
The Baby and the Stork
Movie • 1912
The Workman
The Mark of Zorro
Movie • 1920
Dona Catalina Pulido
Rent Free
Movie • 1922
Countess de Mourney
The Quitter
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Abbott
When the Fire-Bells Rang
Movie • 1912
An Actress
The Big House
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Marlowe
You Can't Believe Everything
Movie • 1918
Grace Dardley
Prisoners of Love
Movie • 1921
Her Mother
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Putnam
Silks and Saddles
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Calhoun
Wild Boys of the Road
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Smith
The Sands of Dee
Movie • 1912
Artist's fiancee
Two Daughters of Eve
Movie • 1912
The Mother
In the Aisles of the Wild
Movie • 1912
The Elder Daughter
A Cry for Help
Movie • 1912
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
The Wrong Bottle
Movie • 1913
The Blind Sister
A Misappropriated Turkey
Movie • 1913
Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
The Tenderfoot's Money
Movie • 1913
The Prospector's Wife
The Ranchero's Revenge
Movie • 1913
The Schemer's Associate
The Stolen Loaf
Movie • 1913
The Rich Woman
A Gamble with Death
Movie • 1913
Kate
The Well
Movie • 1913
The Farmer's Wife
The Enemy's Baby
Movie • 1913
Miller's Wife
A Gambler's Honor
Movie • 1913
Beth
The Mirror
Movie • 1913
Daisy
The Vengeance of Galora
Movie • 1913
Galora
Don't Marry
Movie • 1928
Aunt Abigail Bowen
Under the Shadow of the Law
Movie • 1913
John Haywood's Sister
I Was Meant for You
Movie • 1913
Lavina
The Crook and the Girl
Movie • 1913
The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
The Work Habit
Movie • 1913
The Daughter in the City
The Stolen Treaty
Movie • 1913
Olga
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Movie • 1913
Kate
The Law and His Son
Movie • 1913
Marguerite, Manning's Sister
The Stopped Clock
Movie • 1913
The Antique Dealer's Daughter
For Her Government
Movie • 1913
The Detective's Stratagem
Movie • 1913
Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
Concentration
Movie • 1914
The Mother
The Abandoned Well
Movie • 1913
The Widow
All for Science
Movie • 1913
Detective
The Working Man
Movie • 1933
Benjamin's Secretary
The Phantom Express
Movie • 1932
Ma Nolan
Under Eighteen
Movie • 1932
Seamstress (uncredited)
The Massacre
Movie • 1912
Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
A Nest Unfeathered
Movie • 1914
Kate
Waifs
Movie • 1914
His Fireman's Conscience
Movie • 1914
Mrs. Daily
Her Father's Silent Partner
Movie • 1914
Her Hand
Movie • 1914
Olga
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Movie • 1915
Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
The Canceled Mortgage
Movie • 1915
The Widowed Mother
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Movie • 1915
Crook
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Movie • 1915
Molly
The Miser's Legacy
Movie • 1915
The Crook's Wife
A Day's Adventure
Movie • 1915
Hogan's Moll
Her Dormant Love
Movie • 1915
The Discontented Wife
The Way Out
Movie • 1915
The Young School Teacher
Her Convert
Movie • 1915
The Old Inventor's Daughter
Old Offenders
Movie • 1915
Joe's Wife
As It Happened
Movie • 1915
The Ranchman's Daughter
The Midnight Flyer
Movie • 1925
Liza Slater
The Black Diamond Express
Movie • 1927
Martha Foster
The Old Actor
Movie • 1912
At Audition
Bedside
Movie • 1934
Nurse
His Trust
Movie • 1911
Col. Frazier's wife
The House of Discord
Movie • 1913
The Sister-in-Law
The Cracksman's Gratitude
Movie • 1914
Men and Women
Movie • 1914
Mrs. Stephen Rodman
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Movie • 1911
The Old Carpenter's Wife
The Right to Be Happy
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Cratchit
The Second Floor Mystery
Movie • 1930
Aunt Hattie
Redemption
Movie • 1930
Anna Pavlovna
The Sunbeam
Movie • 1912
The Spinster
The School Teacher and the Waif
Movie • 1912
The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
A Country Cupid
Movie • 1911
The Half-Wit's Mother
His Trust Fulfilled
Movie • 1911
Mrs. Frazier
August Week End
Movie • 1936
Alma Washburne
Judgment of the Storm
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Heath
Keeper of the Flame
Movie • 1943
Ashes of Vengeance
Movie • 1923
Margot's Aunt
The Empty Gun
Movie • 1917
Mary
Heart o' the Hills
Movie • 1919
Martha Hawn
The Tower of Lies
Movie • 1925
Katrina
The Shamrock Handicap
Movie • 1926
Molly O'Shea
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Movie • 1910
One of the Sisters Frost
By Appointment Only
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Mary Carroll
Nice People
Movie • 1922
Margaret Rainsford
Midsummer Madness
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Osborne
The Viking
Movie • 1928
Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
Secrets
Movie • 1924
Elizabeth Channing
His New Lid
Movie • 1910
Swords and Hearts
Movie • 1911
Irene Lambert
Almost Human
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Livingston
Man's Genesis
Movie • 1912
Cave Woman
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1936
Woman in Bed (uncredited)
Two Heads on a Pillow
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Helen Gorman
British Agent
Movie • 1934
Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)
The Flying Fleet
Movie • 1929
Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
A Flash of Light
Movie • 1910
At First Party
Manhattan Parade
Movie • 1931
Nancy - the Maid
The Shield of Honor
Movie • 1927
Mrs. MacDowell
A Night at the Movies
Movie • 1937
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Journal of a Crime
Movie • 1934
Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
The Primal Call
Movie • 1911
The Woman
Three Comrades
Movie • 1938
Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
The Gift Supreme
Movie • 1920
Lalia Graun
Stand Up and Fight
Movie • 1939
Woman
The Famous Ferguson Case
Movie • 1932
Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Movie • 1937
Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
Idiot's Delight
Movie • 1939
Crying Mother
Mothers Cry
Movie • 1930
Mary's Mother
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
Nurse (uncredited)
Miracles for Sale
Movie • 1939
Jack of Diamonds Woman
Love Never Dies
Movie • 1921
Liz Trott
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie • 1943
Counterwoman (uncredited)
It Happened One Night
Movie • 1934
Mother on Bus (uncredited)
A Failure at Fifty
Movie • 1940
Minor Role (uncredited)
Under Burning Skies
Movie • 1912
The Friend
Those Who Dare
Movie • 1924
Mrs. Rollins
The Devil's Circus
Movie • 1926
Mrs. Peterson
The Manicure Lady
Movie • 1911
Lunchroom Hostess
Rose o' Salem Town
Movie • 1910
Avarice
Movie • 1917
The Miserly Old Woman
A Sailor’s Heart
Movie • 1912
The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
Young Tom Edison
Movie • 1940
Woman at Station
Something to Think About
Movie • 1920
Housekeeper
The Devil
Movie • 1908
Love Among the Roses
Movie • 1910
The Jack-Knife Man
Movie • 1920
Lize Merdin
Young Desire
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Spencer
Billy's Stratagem
Movie • 1912
Billy's Mother
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Movie • 1944
Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
The Strong Man's Burden
Movie • 1913
Ida Glynn, The Nurse
This Land Is Mine
Movie • 1943
Woman in Bathroom
Wild Company
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Laura Grayson
The Unknown Soldier
Movie • 1926
John Phillips' sister
The Golden Fleecing
Movie • 1940
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Movie • 1940
Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
The Golden Supper
Movie • 1910
Lady-in-Waiting
An American Tragedy
Movie • 1931
Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
A Successful Calamity
Movie • 1932
Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
Dr. Monica
Movie • 1934
Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
Central Airport
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Blaine
Angel of Mercy
Movie • 1939
Mother (uncredited)
Michael O'Halloran
Movie • 1923
Nancy Harding
Test Pilot
Movie • 1938
Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
Enemies of Children
Movie • 1923
Godfrey sister
The Reckless Sex
Movie • 1925
Concha
The Dixie Merchant
Movie • 1926
Josephine Fippany
Lawyer Man
Movie • 1932
Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
Cornered
Movie • 1932
Jane's Aunt
The Unveiling
Movie • 1911
A Little Journey
Movie • 1927
Aunt Louise
The Auctioneer
Movie • 1927
Mrs. Tim Eagan
Waking Up the Town
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Joyce
The Usurer
Movie • 1910
Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
The Taxi Dancer
Movie • 1927
Aunt Mary
Boys Town
Movie • 1938
Nun (uncredited)
Waiter No. 5
Movie • 1910
The Chief of Police's Wife
The Female of the Species
Movie • 1912
The Miner's Wife
A Decree of Destiny
Movie • 1911
A Nun
The Unwelcome Guest
Movie • 1913
The Wife
Lena and the Geese
Movie • 1912
Lena's Mother
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Movie • 1913
The Lady
Penrod
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Schofield
The Long Road
Movie • 1911
Ned's Wife
The Adventures of Billy
Movie • 1911
Rich Woman
A Temporary Truce
Movie • 1912
Mexican Jim's Wife
Fisher Folks
Movie • 1911
At Fair
Whispers
Movie • 1941
Gossip (uncredited)
Human Wreckage
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Brown
Song of Revolt
Movie • 1937
Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
Thy Name Is Woman
Movie • 1924
Juan's Mother
What Every Woman Knows
Movie • 1921
Comtesse de la Brière
Heart's Haven
Movie • 1922
May Caroline
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Movie • 1932
Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
The Man on the Rock
Movie • 1938
Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)
They're Always Caught
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie • 1943
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Presenting Lily Mars
Movie • 1943
Dowager
A Stranger from Somewhere
Movie • 1916
Olga
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Movie • 1939
Gossiper
The Clean-Up
Movie • 1917
Vera Vincent
Lady Scarface
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Tuckerman
A Mohawk's Way
Movie • 1910
The Iconoclast
Movie • 1910
Rosalind at Redgate
Movie • 1919
The Wanderer
Movie • 1913
The Female Lover
So Near, Yet So Far
Movie • 1912
Rich Woman in Other Town
A Woman Scorned
Movie • 1911
The Doctor's Wife
The God Within
Movie • 1912
The Woodsman's Wife
Circus Days
Movie • 1923
Martha
The Show Off
Movie • 1926
Mom Fisher
The Tragedy of Youth
Movie • 1928
Mother
Olaf—An Atom
Movie • 1913
A Parent
Imitation of Life
Movie • 1934
Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
Adventure
Movie • 1945
Woman in Library (uncredited)
Mixed Blood
Movie • 1916
Nita Valyez
Men on Her Mind
Movie • 1944
Mother Goodwin
The Stolen Bride
Movie • 1913
The Wife
The West~Bound Limited
Movie • 1923
Mrs. Bill Buckley
The Storm Woman
Movie • 1917
The Gates of Doom
Movie • 1917
Indore / Agatha
One Against the World
Movie • 1939
Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
The Woman in the Suitcase
Movie • 1920
Mrs. James B. Moreland
The Planter's Wife
Movie • 1908
Mrs. John Holland
The House of Darkness
Movie • 1913
The Doctor's Wife
Union Depot
Movie • 1932
Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
The Bronze Bride
Movie • 1917
A-Che-Chee
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Movie • 1913
Edith
The Squaw's Love
Movie • 1911
Silver Fawn
Wilful Peggy
Movie • 1910
Housemaid
The Oath and the Man
Movie • 1910
Rebel
Fate's Turning
Movie • 1911
At Hotel/At Wedding
The Follies Girl
Movie • 1919
Nina
Prudence on Broadway
Movie • 1919
Miss Grayson
Brothers
Movie • 1930
Bess Naughton
The End of the World
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Joyce
The End of the World
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Joyce
Winds of the Pampas
Movie • 1927
Doña Maria Casandos
The Heart of a Bandit
Movie • 1915
Claire
The Message of the Violin
Movie • 1910
The Other Woman's Servant
Through Eyes of Men
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Virginia All
The Call of the Wild
Movie • 1908
Party Guest
A String of Pearls
Movie • 1912
The Italian Shoemaker's Wife
4 Devils
Movie • 1928
Woman
Marriage by Contract
Movie • 1928
Mother
Wealth
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Dominick
When Dreams Come True
Movie • 1929
Martha Shelby
The Ragged Heiress
Movie • 1922
Sylvia Moreton
Chasing Rainbows
Movie • 1919
Mrs. Walters
Blind Youth
Movie • 1920
Elizabeth Monnier
The Return of Mary
Movie • 1918
Mrs. John Denby Sr.
The Devil's Riddle
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Potts
Black Oxen
Movie • 1923
Agnes Trevor
Dollar Down
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Meadows
The Spanish Gypsy
Movie • 1911
Paula
The Broken Cross
Movie • 1911
Kate's Mother
The Sorrowful Example
Movie • 1911
The Wife
Mother o' Mine
Movie • 1921
Mrs. Sheldon
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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