Claire Du Brey

Claire Du Brey
Born	August 31, 1892(1892-08-31) Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, United States
Died	August 1, 1993(1993-08-01) (aged 100) Los Angeles, California, United States
Other names	Claire DuBray Claire DuBrey Claire Dubrey Claire du Brey
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1916–60

Claire Du Brey (August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in over 200 films between 1916 and 1959.

She was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 100 years, 11 months.

Her screen career began with Universal and she had played at one time or another with almost all the larger companies. Some of the more important photoplays in which she had been seen are "The Wishing Ring Man," "The World Aflame," "What Every Woman Wants," "The Spite Bride," "Americanism" and "The Walk Offs". She was proficient in athletics, excelling in swimming, riding, golfing, tennis and motoring. Miss Du Brey was five feet seven inches high, weighed a hundred and thirty pounds and had auburn hair and brown eyes. Miss Du Brey took a lively interest in horticulture.^[1]

Relationship with Marie Dressler

In the late 1990s, two biographies of Marie Dressler were published, Marie Dressler: The Unlikeliest Star (1997), by Ontario resident and writer Betty Lee, and Marie Dressler: A Biography (1999) by Matthew Kennedy. However, only Lee had access to DuBrey's diary. Both biographies claim Dressler bore a son around 1896, and that DuBrey may have been Dressler's biological daughter, hence their close relationship.

Selected filmography

The Piper's Price (1917) The Drifter (1917) The Fighting Gringo (1917) Hair-Trigger Burke (1917) The Honor of an Outlaw (1917) A 44-Calibre Mystery (1917) The Almost Good Man (1917) Six-Shooter Justice (1917) The Rescue (1917) Pay Me! (1917)

Triumph (1917) Anything Once (1917) Dangerous Hours (1919) Two Sisters (1929) Ramona (1936) The Affairs of Annabel (1938) Jesse James (1939) Oh, What a Night (1944) Dakota (1945) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

References

1. ^ Charles Donald Fox & Milton L. Silver (1920). "Claire Du Brey". Who's Who on the Screen. New York City: Ross Publishing. http://silentladies.com/BDuBrey.html.  (Note: Not currently in copyright)

External links

• Claire Du Brey at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Brey, Claire Du
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	31 August 1892
Place of birth	Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, USA
Date of death	1 August 1993
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, USA