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