Claire Du Brey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-08-30
Day of Death
1993-08-01 (100 years old)
Place of Birth
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
Claire Du Brey
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.
Known For
Acting
(1959)
Escort West
as Mrs. Kate Fenniman
(1958)
Hot Rod Gang
as Agatha, the maid
(1958)
Frontier Gun
as Bess Loveman
(1956)
Lust for Life
as Housekeeper
(1953)
Raiders of the Seven Seas
as Señora Salcedo
(1951)
Ace in the Hole
as Spinster (uncredited)
(1950)
Cinderella
as (credit only) (voice)
(1949)
Samson and Delilah
as Temple Spectator (uncredited)
(1949)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
as Mrs. Grimsby
(1948)
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Housekeeper
(1948)
French Leave
as Mom LaFarge
(1948)
Out of the Storm
as Mrs. Smith
(1948)
Lightnin' in the Forest
as Martha
(1947)
The Bishop's Wife
as Second Lady in Michel's
(1947)
Ivy
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
(1947)
Bells of San Fernando
as Manta
(1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
(1946)
(1946)
Don Ricardo Returns
as Mama Teresa
(1946)
The Catman of Paris
as Servant (uncredited)
(1946)
The Secret of the Whistler
as Laura - Harrison's Servant
(1946)
The Invisible Informer
as Martha Baylor
(1945)
A Song to Remember
as Madame Mercier (uncredited)
(1945)
Dakota
as Wahtonka
(1945)
Star in the Night
as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
(1944)
Dragon Seed
as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
(1944)
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Rosie McGurk
(1944)
Oh, What a Night!
as Petrie
(1943)
Heaven Can Wait
as Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
(1943)
No Place for a Lady
as Apartment House Manager
(1942)
Now, Voyager
as Hilda (uncredited)
(1942)
Bells of Capistrano
as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
(1942)
The Magnificent Dope
as Peter's Secretary
(1942)
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
as Housekeeper
(1941)
Blossoms in the Dust
as Nurse at Sammy's Birth
(1941)
Private Nurse
as Flower Shop Manager
(1941)
Rise and Shine
as Miss Pinkham
(1940)
The Shop Around the Corner
as Customer (uncredited)
(1940)
Virginia City
as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
(1940)
The Blue Bird
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Nun (uncredited)
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Emma Smith
(1940)
High School
as Miss Huggins
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
(1940)
Black Diamonds
as Henderson's Secretary
(1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1940)
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Sarah Walters
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Gym Teacher
(1939)
Jesse James
as Mrs. Bob Ford
(1939)
Four Wives
as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
(1939)
Juarez
as Woman (uncredited)
(1939)
Swanee River
as Woman in Cafe
(1939)
Never Say Die
as Hotel Guest
(1939)
(1939)
Sergeant Madden
as Nurse
(1939)
Coast Guard
as First Nurse (uncredited)
(1939)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Secretary
(1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Landlady
(1939)
See Your Doctor
as Nurse
(1939)
Within the Law
as Prison Librarian
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
(1939)
South of the Border
as Dueña
(1939)
Chicken Wagon Family
as Mrs. Kelsey
(1939)
Everybody's Baby
as Nurse Cordell
(1938)
Marie Antoinette
as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
(1938)
Men with Wings
as Edith
(1938)
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
as Mrs. Thurber
(1938)
Little Miss Broadway
as Miss Blodgett
(1938)
Miracle Money
as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
(1938)
One Wild Night
as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
(1938)
Walking Down Broadway
as Claybourne's Secretary
(1938)
The Affairs of Annabel
as Convict (uncredited)
(1938)
That Certain Age
as Horsewoman
(1938)
The Baroness and the Butler
as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
(1937)
Nothing Sacred
as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
(1937)
Topper
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
(1937)
Dangerously Yours
as Ship Passenger
(1937)
Blossoms On Broadway
as Fake Nurse (uncredited)
(1937)
Mountain Justice
as Woman with Baby
(1937)
Man Of The People
as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
(1937)
The Wrong Road
as Matron (uncredited)
(1937)
The Lady Escapes
as Woman in theater (uncredited)
(1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Miss Farrell
(1936)
The Devil-Doll
as Mme. Coulvet
(1936)
Small Town Girl
as Bit Role (uncredited)
(1936)
Ramona
as Marda
(1935)
Vagabond Lady
as R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)
(1935)
Life Begins at Forty
as Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
(1934)
Jane Eyre
as Bertha Rochester
(1934)
This Side of Heaven
as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
(1934)
Blind Date
as Head Saleswoman
(1934)
Viva Villa!
as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
(1934)
Among the Missing
as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
(1933)
Night Flight
as Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
(1933)
The Sin of Nora Moran
as Mrs. Edith Crawford
(1933)
Made on Broadway
as Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary
(1933)
Broadway to Hollywood
as Aunt Clara
(1933)
Gabriel Over the White House
as Nurse
(1932)
Prosperity
as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
(1932)
Divorce In The Family
as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
(1932)
Arsène Lupin
as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
(1931)
Politics
as Rally Leader
(1930)
Renegades
as Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
(1930)
For the Love o' Lil
as Mrs. Gardner
(1929)
Two Sisters
as Rose
(1927)
The Devil Dancer
as Audrey
(1926)
The Exquisite Sinner
as Dominique's Sister
(1926)
Miss Nobody
as Ann Adams
(1925)
Infatuation
as Pasha's Wife
(1925)
The Girl of Gold
as Edith Loring
(1925)
Drusilla with a Million
as Daphne Thornton
(1924)
The Sea Hawk
as Siren
(1924)
Borrowed Husbands
as Peggy Fleurette
(1923)
The Voice from the Minaret
as Countess La Fontaine
(1923)
Ponjola
as Luchia Luff
(1922)
Glass Houses
as Mrs. Vicky
(1922)
To Have and to Hold
as Patience Worth
(1922)
When Love Comes
as Marie Jamison
(1922)
You Never Know
as Inez
(1922)
The Ordeal
as Elise
(1922)
Only a Shop Girl
as Mrs. Watkins
(1921)
I Am Guilty
as Trixie
(1921)
The Hole in the Wall
as Cora Thompson
(1921)
The Bronze Bell
as Nairaini
(1921)
That Girl Montana
as Lottie
(1921)
My Lady's Latchkey
as Countess Santiago
(1920)
The Heart of a Child
as Lady Dorothea
(1920)
A Light Woman
as Jeanne DuPre
(1920)
The House of Whispers
as Nettie Kelly
(1920)
The Green Flame
as Lou Tremaine
(1920)
Life's Twist
as Mrs. Helen Sutton
(1920)
(1920)
The Walk-Offs
as Mrs. Elliott
(1919)
Dangerous Hours
as Sophia Guerni
(1919)
Modern Husbands
as Myrtle Cosgrove
(1919)
The Spite Bride
as Trixie Dennis
(1919)
The Wishing Ring Man
as Gale Maddox
(1919)
What Every Woman Wants
as Sylvia
(1919)
The World Aflame
as Emma Reich
(1919)
When Fate Decides
as Alicia Carteret
(1919)
A Man And His Money
as Varda Ropers
(1919)
The Old Maid's Baby
as Sylvia Deane
(1919)
The Sawdust Doll
as Rose Budd
(1919)
A Man in the Open
as Polly
(1919)
The Devil's Trail
as Dubec's Wife
(1919)
(1918)
The Risky Road
as Mrs. Miles Kingston
(1918)
Midnight Madness
as Lola Montez
(1918)
Modern Love
as Myrtle Harris
(1918)
Madame Spy
as Baroness Von Hulda
(1918)
Social Briars
as Helen Manning
(1918)
Brace Up
as Ellen Miles
(1918)
The Human Target
as Thelma Von Styne
(1918)
Up Romance Road
as Hilda
(1918)
The Magic Eye
as Mrs. Bowman
(1918)
Border Raiders
as Cleo Dade
(1918)
Prisoners of the Pines
as Louise
(1917)
Six-Shooter Justice
as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
(1917)
The Rescue
as Henriette
(1917)
Triumph
as Lillian Du Pon
(1917)
Hair-Trigger Burke
as The Vamp
(1917)
Pay Me!
as Nita
(1917)
The Almost Good Man
as Kitty Manville
(1917)
The Honor of an Outlaw
as The Railroad President's Daughter
(1917)
Anything Once
as Señorita Paprika
(1917)
The Winged Mystery
as Gerda Anderson
(1917)
The Clash of Steel
as Princess Seraphina
(1917)
The Piper's Price
as Jessica's Maid
(1917)
The Fighting Gringo
as May Smith
(1917)
The Reward of the Faithless
as Princess Dione
(1917)
Follow the Girl
as Donna
(1917)
A 44-Calibre Mystery
as Kitty Flanders
(1917)
The Drifter
as Dora Mason
(1917)
Perils of the Secret Service
as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
(1917)
The Honeymoon Surprise
as Mrs. Hardman
(1916)
(1916)