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)
Out of the Storm
as Mrs. Smith
(1948)
French Leave
as Mom LaFarge
(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)
The Catman of Paris
as Servant (uncredited)
(1946)
The Secret of the Whistler
as Laura - Harrison's Servant
(1946)
Don Ricardo Returns
as Mama Teresa
(1946)
The Invisible Informer
as Martha Baylor
(1945)
Dakota
as Wahtonka
(1945)
A Song to Remember
as Madame Mercier (uncredited)
(1945)
Star in the Night
as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
(1944)
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Rosie McGurk
(1944)
Dragon Seed
as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
(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)
The Magnificent Dope
as Peter's Secretary
(1942)
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
as Housekeeper
(1942)
Bells of Capistrano
as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
(1941)
Blossoms in the Dust
as Nurse at Sammy's Birth
(1941)
Rise and Shine
as Miss Pinkham
(1941)
Private Nurse
as Flower Shop Manager
(1940)
The Shop Around the Corner
as Customer (uncredited)
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
as Nun (uncredited)
(1940)
The Blue Bird
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Emma Smith
(1940)
Virginia City
as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Gym Teacher
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
(1940)
High School
as Miss Huggins
(1940)
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Sarah Walters
(1940)
Black Diamonds
as Henderson's Secretary
(1939)
Jesse James
as Mrs. Bob Ford
(1939)
Never Say Die
as Hotel Guest
(1939)
Coast Guard
as First Nurse (uncredited)
(1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Landlady
(1939)
Juarez
as Woman (uncredited)
(1939)
Swanee River
as Woman in Cafe
(1939)
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Secretary
(1939)
Four Wives
as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
(1939)
Sergeant Madden
as Nurse
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
(1939)
(1939)
South of the Border
as Dueña
(1939)
Chicken Wagon Family
as Mrs. Kelsey
(1939)
See Your Doctor
as Nurse
(1939)
Within the Law
as Prison Librarian
(1939)
Everybody's Baby
as Nurse Cordell
(1938)
Marie Antoinette
as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
(1938)
Little Miss Broadway
as Miss Blodgett
(1938)
Men with Wings
as Edith
(1938)
That Certain Age
as Horsewoman
(1938)
The Baroness and the Butler
as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
(1938)
Miracle Money
as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
(1938)
One Wild Night
as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
(1938)
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
as Mrs. Thurber
(1938)
Walking Down Broadway
as Claybourne's Secretary
(1938)
The Affairs of Annabel
as Convict (uncredited)
(1937)
Nothing Sacred
as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
(1937)
Topper
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
(1937)
Dangerously Yours
as Ship Passenger
(1937)
The Wrong Road
as Matron (uncredited)
(1937)
Mountain Justice
as Woman with Baby
(1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Miss Farrell
(1937)
The Lady Escapes
as Woman in theater (uncredited)
(1937)
Blossoms On Broadway
as Fake Nurse (uncredited)
(1937)
Man Of The People
as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
(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)
Among the Missing
as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
(1934)
Viva Villa!
as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
(1934)
Jane Eyre
as Bertha Rochester
(1934)
Blind Date
as Head Saleswoman
(1934)
This Side of Heaven
as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
(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)
Gabriel Over the White House
as Nurse
(1933)
Broadway to Hollywood
as Aunt Clara
(1932)
Arsène Lupin
as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
(1932)
Prosperity
as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
(1932)
Divorce In The Family
as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
(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)
The Girl of Gold
as Edith Loring
(1925)
Infatuation
as Pasha's Wife
(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)
When Love Comes
as Marie Jamison
(1922)
Only a Shop Girl
as Mrs. Watkins
(1922)
You Never Know
as Inez
(1922)
The Ordeal
as Elise
(1922)
To Have and to Hold
as Patience Worth
(1922)
Glass Houses
as Mrs. Vicky
(1921)
The Hole in the Wall
as Cora Thompson
(1921)
The Bronze Bell
as Nairaini
(1921)
That Girl Montana
as Lottie
(1921)
I Am Guilty
as Trixie
(1921)
My Lady's Latchkey
as Countess Santiago
(1920)
The House of Whispers
as Nettie Kelly
(1920)
The Heart of a Child
as Lady Dorothea
(1920)
Life's Twist
as Mrs. Helen Sutton
(1920)
The Green Flame
as Lou Tremaine
(1920)
A Light Woman
as Jeanne DuPre
(1920)
The Walk-Offs
as Mrs. Elliott
(1920)
(1919)
The Sawdust Doll
as Rose Budd
(1919)
A Man And His Money
as Varda Ropers
(1919)
(1919)
Dangerous Hours
as Sophia Guerni
(1919)
The Spite Bride
as Trixie Dennis
(1919)
Modern Husbands
as Myrtle Cosgrove
(1919)
The Old Maid's Baby
as Sylvia Deane
(1919)
A Man in the Open
as Polly
(1919)
The World Aflame
as Emma Reich
(1919)
The Wishing Ring Man
as Gale Maddox
(1919)
What Every Woman Wants
as Sylvia
(1919)
When Fate Decides
as Alicia Carteret
(1919)
The Devil's Trail
as Dubec's Wife
(1918)
Modern Love
as Myrtle Harris
(1918)
Midnight Madness
as Lola Montez
(1918)
Madame Spy
as Baroness Von Hulda
(1918)
Border Raiders
as Cleo Dade
(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)
Prisoners of the Pines
as Louise
(1918)
The Risky Road
as Mrs. Miles Kingston
(1918)
The Magic Eye
as Mrs. Bowman
(1917)
The Rescue
as Henriette
(1917)
The Winged Mystery
as Gerda Anderson
(1917)
The Drifter
as Dora Mason
(1917)
The Clash of Steel
as Princess Seraphina
(1917)
Anything Once
as Señorita Paprika
(1917)
Follow the Girl
as Donna
(1917)
Perils of the Secret Service
as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
(1917)
Six-Shooter Justice
as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
(1917)
Pay Me!
as Nita
(1917)
The Fighting Gringo
as May Smith
(1917)
The Piper's Price
as Jessica's Maid
(1917)
The Almost Good Man
as Kitty Manville
(1917)
The Reward of the Faithless
as Princess Dione
(1917)
A 44-Calibre Mystery
as Kitty Flanders
(1917)
The Honeymoon Surprise
as Mrs. Hardman
(1917)
Hair-Trigger Burke
as The Vamp
(1917)
Triumph
as Lillian Du Pon
(1917)
The Honor of an Outlaw
as The Railroad President's Daughter
(1916)
(1916)