Claire Du Brey
Acting • Born 1892-08-30 – Died 1993-08-01
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
182 credits
Lightnin' in the Forest
Movie • 1948
Martha
Ponjola
Movie • 1923
Luchia Luff
Two Sisters
Movie • 1929
Rose
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Thurber
The Sin of Nora Moran
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Edith Crawford
Peggy
Movie • 1916
Pay Me!
Movie • 1917
Nita
Madame Spy
Movie • 1918
Baroness Von Hulda
Out of the Storm
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Smith
The Secret of the Whistler
Movie • 1946
Laura - Harrison's Servant
Up Romance Road
Movie • 1918
Hilda
The Heart of a Child
Movie • 1920
Lady Dorothea
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Movie • 1940
Sarah Walters
Only a Shop Girl
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Watkins
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie • 1939
Landlady
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Movie • 1942
Housekeeper
The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Second Lady in Michel's
Raiders of the Seven Seas
Movie • 1953
Señora Salcedo
This Side of Heaven
Movie • 1934
Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
What Every Woman Wants
Movie • 1919
Sylvia
The Old Maid's Baby
Movie • 1919
Sylvia Deane
The Sawdust Doll
Movie • 1919
Rose Budd
Modern Husbands
Movie • 1919
Myrtle Cosgrove
The Ghost Girl
Movie • 1919
When Fate Decides
Movie • 1919
Alicia Carteret
The Devil's Trail
Movie • 1919
Dubec's Wife
The World Aflame
Movie • 1919
Emma Reich
The Green Flame
Movie • 1920
Lou Tremaine
The Walk-Offs
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Elliott
The House of Whispers
Movie • 1920
Nettie Kelly
Life's Twist
Movie • 1920
Mrs. Helen Sutton
A Light Woman
Movie • 1920
Jeanne DuPre
Perilous Valley
Movie • 1920
The Bronze Bell
Movie • 1921
Nairaini
My Lady's Latchkey
Movie • 1921
Countess Santiago
Glass Houses
Movie • 1922
Mrs. Vicky
The Hole in the Wall
Movie • 1921
Cora Thompson
The Ordeal
Movie • 1922
Elise
You Never Know
Movie • 1922
Inez
When Love Comes
Movie • 1922
Marie Jamison
Borrowed Husbands
Movie • 1924
Peggy Fleurette
The Girl of Gold
Movie • 1925
Edith Loring
Drusilla with a Million
Movie • 1925
Daphne Thornton
Hot Rod Gang
Movie • 1958
Agatha, the maid
The Drifter
Movie • 1917
Dora Mason
The Honor of an Outlaw
Movie • 1917
The Railroad President's Daughter
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Movie • 1917
Kitty Flanders
Hair-Trigger Burke
Movie • 1917
The Vamp
The Almost Good Man
Movie • 1917
Kitty Manville
Perils of the Secret Service
Movie • 1917
Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
The Clash of Steel
Movie • 1917
Princess Seraphina
The Honeymoon Surprise
Movie • 1917
Mrs. Hardman
Follow the Girl
Movie • 1917
Donna
The Human Target
Movie • 1918
Thelma Von Styne
Six-Shooter Justice
Movie • 1917
Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
Midnight Madness
Movie • 1918
Lola Montez
Prisoners of the Pines
Movie • 1918
Louise
Modern Love
Movie • 1918
Myrtle Harris
Social Briars
Movie • 1918
Helen Manning
Politics
Movie • 1931
Rally Leader
Miracle Money
Movie • 1938
Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
Ramona
Movie • 1936
Marda
Don Ricardo Returns
Movie • 1946
Mama Teresa
The Devil Dancer
Movie • 1927
Audrey
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1934
Bertha Rochester
High School
Movie • 1940
Miss Huggins
Little Miss Broadway
Movie • 1938
Miss Blodgett
The Baroness and the Butler
Movie • 1938
Martha - Kartina's Secretary
Ivy
Movie • 1947
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Gabriel Over the White House
Movie • 1933
Nurse
Jesse James
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Bob Ford
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1924
Siren
Private Nurse
Movie • 1941
Flower Shop Manager
One Wild Night
Movie • 1938
Miss Thomas (uncredited)
The Devil-Doll
Movie • 1936
Mathilde Coulvet
Man Of The People
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
The Affairs of Annabel
Movie • 1938
Convict (uncredited)
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Miss Arnold (uncredited)
Blind Date
Movie • 1934
Head Saleswoman
Broadway to Hollywood
Movie • 1933
Aunt Clara
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Movie • 1948
Housekeeper
Men with Wings
Movie • 1938
Edith
Mountain Justice
Movie • 1937
Woman with Baby
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Movie • 1939
Secretary
Within the Law
Movie • 1939
Prison Librarian
Never Say Die
Movie • 1939
Hotel Guest
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Woman (uncredited)
Divorce In The Family
Movie • 1932
Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
The Lady Escapes
Movie • 1937
Woman in theater (uncredited)
Coast Guard
Movie • 1939
First Nurse (uncredited)
Chicken Wagon Family
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Kelsey
Four Wives
Movie • 1939
Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
Swanee River
Movie • 1939
Woman in Cafe
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Nurse
Bells of Capistrano
Movie • 1942
Melinda (Ma) McCracken
Now, Voyager
Movie • 1942
Hilda (uncredited)
South of the Border
Movie • 1939
Dueña
Among the Missing
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Alvin Abbott
Dangerously Yours
Movie • 1937
Ship Passenger
Star in the Night
Movie • 1945
Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
The Blue Bird
Movie • 1940
Nurse (uncredited)
Dakota
Movie • 1945
Wahtonka
The Shop Around the Corner
Movie • 1940
Customer (uncredited)
Everybody's Baby
Movie • 1939
Nurse Cordell
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Emma Smith
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
Ace in the Hole
Movie • 1951
Spinster (uncredited)
Dangerous Hours
Movie • 1919
Sophia Guerni
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
Party Guest (uncredited)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Miss Farrell
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Nun (uncredited)
Hotel for Women
Movie • 1939
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1936
Bit Role (uncredited)
That Certain Age
Movie • 1938
Horsewoman
Nothing Sacred
Movie • 1937
Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
Topper
Movie • 1937
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Life Begins at Forty
Movie • 1935
Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
Cinderella
Movie • 1950
(credit only) (voice)
The Catman of Paris
Movie • 1946
Servant (uncredited)
The Invisible Informer
Movie • 1946
Martha Baylor
Lights of Old Santa Fe
Movie • 1944
Rosie McGurk
The Voice from the Minaret
Movie • 1923
Countess La Fontaine
Bells of San Fernando
Movie • 1947
Manta
Forty Little Mothers
Movie • 1940
Gym Teacher
Triumph
Movie • 1917
Lillian Du Pon
Frontier Gun
Movie • 1958
Bess Loveman
Escort West
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Kate Fenniman
Civilization
Movie • 1916
The Exquisite Sinner
Movie • 1926
Dominique's Sister
Walking Down Broadway
Movie • 1938
Claybourne's Secretary
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
That Girl Montana
Movie • 1921
Lottie
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
Viva Villa!
Movie • 1934
Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
Temple Spectator (uncredited)
Dragon Seed
Movie • 1944
Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
A Man in the Open
Movie • 1919
Polly
Prosperity
Movie • 1932
Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Grimsby
Rise and Shine
Movie • 1941
Miss Pinkham
Miss Nobody
Movie • 1926
Ann Adams
See Your Doctor
Movie • 1939
Nurse
Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1932
Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
Heaven Can Wait
Movie • 1943
Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
No Place for a Lady
Movie • 1943
Apartment House Manager
Blossoms in the Dust
Movie • 1941
Nurse at Sammy's Birth
Brace Up
Movie • 1918
Ellen Miles
Anything Once
Movie • 1917
Señorita Paprika
The Piper's Price
Movie • 1917
Jessica's Maid
Night Flight
Movie • 1933
Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
The Reward of the Faithless
Movie • 1917
Princess Dione
The Rescue
Movie • 1917
Henriette
The Risky Road
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Kingston
Infatuation
Movie • 1925
Pasha's Wife
The Spite Bride
Movie • 1919
Trixie Dennis
The Magic Eye
Movie • 1918
Mrs. Bowman
The Winged Mystery
Movie • 1917
Gerda Anderson
A Man And His Money
Movie • 1919
Varda Ropers
To Have and to Hold
Movie • 1922
Patience Worth
Renegades
Movie • 1930
Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
The Wrong Road
Movie • 1937
Matron (uncredited)
The Fighting Gringo
Movie • 1917
May Smith
A Song to Remember
Movie • 1945
Madame Mercier (uncredited)
Blossoms On Broadway
Movie • 1937
Fake Nurse (uncredited)
Oh, What a Night!
Movie • 1944
Petrie
Border Raiders
Movie • 1918
Cleo Dade
For the Love o' Lil
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Gardner
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 1938
Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
Lust for Life
Movie • 1956
Housekeeper
The Wishing Ring Man
Movie • 1919
Gale Maddox
Cloak and Dagger
Movie • 1946
The Magnificent Dope
Movie • 1942
Peter's Secretary
I Am Guilty
Movie • 1921
Trixie
French Leave
Movie • 1948
Mom LaFarge
Black Diamonds
Movie • 1940
Henderson's Secretary
Vagabond Lady
Movie • 1935
R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Made on Broadway
Movie • 1933
Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary
Shadows of Sing Sing
Movie • 1933
Angela Crane
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Movie • 1954
Spectator (uncredited)
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mrs. Miggs
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Madame Odin
Where's Raymond?
TV • 1953
Angela