Name
Claire Du Brey
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1892-08-30
Deathday
1993-08-01 (101 years old)
Place of Birth
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA
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
The Baroness and the Butler
(16 Votes)
5.281
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government...
Relase Date : 18 Feb, 1938
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Brigham Young
(16 Votes)
4.563
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge...
Relase Date : 27 Sep, 1940
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Ace in the Hole
(757 Votes)
7.834
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his care...
Relase Date : 29 Jun, 1951
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The Shop Around the Corner
(850 Votes)
8.064
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are...
Relase Date : 12 Jan, 1940
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Samson and Delilah
(253 Votes)
6.603
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seek...
Relase Date : 21 Dec, 1949
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The Best Years of Our Lives
(751 Votes)
7.74
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will fina...
Relase Date : 25 Dec, 1946
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Arsène Lupin
(22 Votes)
7
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris...
Relase Date : 26 Feb, 1932
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A Song to Remember
(30 Votes)
6.4
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to ear...
Relase Date : 19 Jan, 1945
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1948 Lightnin' in the Forest as Martha
- 1923 Ponjola as Luchia Luff
- 1929 Two Sisters as Rose
- 1938 The Strange Case of Dr. Meade as Mrs. Thurber
- 1933 The Sin of Nora Moran as Mrs. Edith Crawford
- 1916 Peggy
- 1917 Pay Me! as Nita
- 1918 Madame Spy as Baroness Von Hulda
- 1948 Out of the Storm as Mrs. Smith
- 1946 The Secret of the Whistler as Laura - Harrison's Servant
- 1918 Up Romance Road as Hilda
- 1920 The Heart of a Child as Lady Dorothea
- 1940 Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Sarah Walters
- 1922 Only a Shop Girl as Mrs. Watkins
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Landlady
- 1942 A Close Call for Ellery Queen as Housekeeper
- 1947 The Bishop's Wife as Second Lady in Michel's
- 1953 Raiders of the Seven Seas as Señora Salcedo
- 1934 This Side of Heaven as Miss Blair - Martin's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1919 What Every Woman Wants as Sylvia
- 1919 The Old Maid's Baby as Sylvia Deane
- 1919 The Sawdust Doll as Rose Budd
- 1919 Modern Husbands as Myrtle Cosgrove
- 1919 The Ghost Girl
- 1919 When Fate Decides as Alicia Carteret
- 1919 The Devil's Trail as Dubec's Wife
- 1919 The World Aflame as Emma Reich
- 1920 The Green Flame as Lou Tremaine
- 1920 The Walk-Offs as Mrs. Elliott
- 1920 The House of Whispers as Nettie Kelly
- 1920 Life's Twist as Mrs. Helen Sutton
- 1920 A Light Woman as Jeanne DuPre
- 1920 Perilous Valley
- 1921 The Bronze Bell as Nairaini
- 1921 My Lady's Latchkey as Countess Santiago
- 1922 Glass Houses as Mrs. Vicky
- 1921 The Hole in the Wall as Cora Thompson
- 1922 The Ordeal as Elise
- 1922 You Never Know as Inez
- 1922 When Love Comes as Marie Jamison
- 1924 Borrowed Husbands as Peggy Fleurette
- 1925 The Girl of Gold as Edith Loring
- 1925 Drusilla with a Million as Daphne Thornton
- 1958 Hot Rod Gang as Agatha, the maid
- 1917 The Drifter as Dora Mason
- 1917 The Honor of an Outlaw as The Railroad President's Daughter
- 1917 A 44-Calibre Mystery as Kitty Flanders
- 1917 Hair-Trigger Burke as The Vamp
- 1917 The Almost Good Man as Kitty Manville
- 1917 Perils of the Secret Service as Princess Seraphina (Episode #2)
- 1917 The Clash of Steel as Princess Seraphina
- 1917 The Honeymoon Surprise as Mrs. Hardman
- 1917 Follow the Girl as Donna
- 1918 The Human Target as Thelma Von Styne
- 1917 Six-Shooter Justice as Mary Gregg - the Prospector's Daughter
- 1918 Midnight Madness as Lola Montez
- 1918 Prisoners of the Pines as Louise
- 1918 Modern Love as Myrtle Harris
- 1918 Social Briars as Helen Manning
- 1931 Politics as Rally Leader
- 1938 Miracle Money as Dr. Jones' Nurse Hazel
- 1936 Ramona as Marda
- 1946 Don Ricardo Returns as Mama Teresa
- 1927 The Devil Dancer as Audrey
- 1934 Jane Eyre as Bertha Rochester
- 1940 High School as Miss Huggins
- 1938 Little Miss Broadway as Miss Blodgett
- 1938 The Baroness and the Butler as Martha - Kartina's Secretary
- 1947 Ivy as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
- 1933 Gabriel Over the White House as Nurse
- 1939 Jesse James as Mrs. Bob Ford
- 1924 The Sea Hawk as Siren
- 1941 Private Nurse as Flower Shop Manager
- 1938 One Wild Night as Miss Thomas (uncredited)
- 1936 The Devil-Doll as Mathilde Coulvet
- 1937 Man Of The People as Mrs. Sagon (uncredited)
- 1938 The Affairs of Annabel as Convict (uncredited)
- 1939 Tell No Tales as Miss Arnold (uncredited)
- 1934 Blind Date as Head Saleswoman
- 1933 Broadway to Hollywood as Aunt Clara
- 1948 Who Killed Doc Robbin? as Housekeeper
- 1938 Men with Wings as Edith
- 1937 Mountain Justice as Woman with Baby
- 1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Secretary
- 1939 Within the Law as Prison Librarian
- 1939 Never Say Die as Hotel Guest
- 1939 Juarez as Woman (uncredited)
- 1932 Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Smith - Lucile's Mother
- 1937 The Lady Escapes as Woman in theater (uncredited)
- 1939 Coast Guard as First Nurse (uncredited)
- 1939 Chicken Wagon Family as Mrs. Kelsey
- 1939 Four Wives as Nurse Telling Crowley It's a Girl (uncredited)
- 1939 Swanee River as Woman in Cafe
- 1939 Sergeant Madden as Nurse
- 1942 Bells of Capistrano as Melinda (Ma) McCracken
- 1942 Now, Voyager as Hilda (uncredited)
- 1939 South of the Border as Dueña
- 1934 Among the Missing as Mrs. Alvin Abbott
- 1937 Dangerously Yours as Ship Passenger
- 1945 Star in the Night as Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
- 1940 The Blue Bird as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1945 Dakota as Wahtonka
- 1940 The Shop Around the Corner as Customer (uncredited)
- 1939 Everybody's Baby as Nurse Cordell
- 1940 Brigham Young as Emma Smith
- 1940 Virginia City as Southern Woman with Rifle (uncredited)
- 1951 Ace in the Hole as Spinster (uncredited)
- 1919 Dangerous Hours as Sophia Guerni
- 1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Miss Farrell
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too as Nun (uncredited)
- 1939 Hotel for Women
- 1936 Small Town Girl as Bit Role (uncredited)
- 1938 That Certain Age as Horsewoman
- 1937 Nothing Sacred as Nurse Rafferty (uncredited)
- 1937 Topper as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
- 1935 Life Begins at Forty as Mrs. T. Watterson Meriwether
- 1950 Cinderella as (credit only) (voice)
- 1946 The Catman of Paris as Servant (uncredited)
- 1946 The Invisible Informer as Martha Baylor
- 1944 Lights of Old Santa Fe as Rosie McGurk
- 1923 The Voice from the Minaret as Countess La Fontaine
- 1947 Bells of San Fernando as Manta
- 1940 Forty Little Mothers as Gym Teacher
- 1917 Triumph as Lillian Du Pon
- 1958 Frontier Gun as Bess Loveman
- 1959 Escort West as Mrs. Kate Fenniman
- 1916 Civilization
- 1926 The Exquisite Sinner as Dominique's Sister
- 1938 Walking Down Broadway as Claybourne's Secretary
- 1940 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Mrs. Hackett (uncredited)
- 1921 That Girl Montana as Lottie
- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives as Mrs. Talburt - Perfume Customer (uncredited)
- 1934 Viva Villa! as Banquet Guest with Tiara Next to Sierra
- 1949 Samson and Delilah as Temple Spectator (uncredited)
- 1944 Dragon Seed as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
- 1919 A Man in the Open as Polly
- 1932 Prosperity as Bank Depositor Spreading Rumor (uncredited)
- 1949 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff as Mrs. Grimsby
- 1941 Rise and Shine as Miss Pinkham
- 1926 Miss Nobody as Ann Adams
- 1939 See Your Doctor as Nurse
- 1932 Arsène Lupin as Mother at the Louvre (uncredited)
- 1943 Heaven Can Wait as Miss Ralston - Jack's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1943 No Place for a Lady as Apartment House Manager
- 1941 Blossoms in the Dust as Nurse at Sammy's Birth
- 1918 Brace Up as Ellen Miles
- 1917 Anything Once as Señorita Paprika
- 1917 The Piper's Price as Jessica's Maid
- 1933 Night Flight as Santiago Nurse (uncredited)
- 1917 The Reward of the Faithless as Princess Dione
- 1917 The Rescue as Henriette
- 1918 The Risky Road as Mrs. Kingston
- 1925 Infatuation as Pasha's Wife
- 1919 The Spite Bride as Trixie Dennis
- 1918 The Magic Eye as Mrs. Bowman
- 1917 The Winged Mystery as Gerda Anderson
- 1919 A Man And His Money as Varda Ropers
- 1922 To Have and to Hold as Patience Worth
- 1930 Renegades as Eleanore's Maid (uncredited)
- 1937 The Wrong Road as Matron (uncredited)
- 1917 The Fighting Gringo as May Smith
- 1945 A Song to Remember as Madame Mercier (uncredited)
- 1937 Blossoms On Broadway as Fake Nurse (uncredited)
- 1944 Oh, What a Night! as Petrie
- 1918 Border Raiders as Cleo Dade
- 1930 For the Love o' Lil as Mrs. Gardner
- 1938 Marie Antoinette as Woman Yelling at Rabblerouser (uncredited)
- 1956 Lust for Life as Housekeeper
- 1919 The Wishing Ring Man as Gale Maddox
- 1946 Cloak and Dagger
- 1942 The Magnificent Dope as Peter's Secretary
- 1921 I Am Guilty as Trixie
- 1948 French Leave as Mom LaFarge
- 1940 Black Diamonds as Henderson's Secretary
- 1935 Vagabond Lady as R.D.'s Secretary (uncredited)
- 1933 Made on Broadway as Miss Squires - Jeff's Secretary
- 1933 Shadows of Sing Sing as Angela Crane
- 1954 Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Spectator (uncredited)
- 1952 Four Star Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Miggs
- 1956 The Adventures of Jim Bowie ( 1 episode ) as Madame Odin
- 1953 Where's Raymond? ( 60 episodes ) as Angela
