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