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