Claire McDowell

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1945 Adventure
Woman in Library (uncredited)

1945 Having Wonderful Crime
Guest (uncredited)

1944 Are These Our Parents?
Miss Winfield

1944 Teen Age
Mrs. Mary Abbott

1944 Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)

1944 Men on Her Mind
Mayme Munson

1943 Black Market Rustlers
Mrs. Prescott (uncredited)

1943 This Land Is Mine
Woman in Bathroom (uncredited)

1943 Presenting Lily Mars
Dowager (uncredited)

1943 Hangmen Also Die!
Counterwoman (uncredited)

1943 The Human Comedy
Woman on Street (uncredited)

1943 The Youngest Profession
Woman (uncredited)

1942 Reap the Wild Wind
Ettie (uncredited)

1941 Lady Scarface
Mrs. Tuckerman (uncredited)

1941 Your Last Act (short)
Old Lady with Memories (uncredited)

1941 More Trifles of Importance (short)
Duchess (uncredited)

1941 Whispers (short)
Gossip (uncredited)

1941 Respect the Law (short)
Nun (uncredited)

1940 Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)

1940 The Golden Fleecing
Pedestrian (uncredited)

1940 A Failure at Fifty (short)
Minor Role (uncredited)

1940 The Captain Is a Lady
Old Lady (uncredited)

1940 Young Tom Edison
Woman at Station (uncredited)

1939 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Gossiper (uncredited)

1939 Those High Grey Walls
Mother (uncredited)

1939 Thunder Afloat
Nurse (uncredited)

1939 One Against the World (short)
Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)

1939 Miracles for Sale
Jack of Diamonds Woman (uncredited)

1939 Angel of Mercy (short)
Mother (uncredited)

1939 Idiot's Delight
Crying Mother (uncredited)

1939 Stand Up and Fight
Woman (uncredited)

1938 Boys Town
Catholic Nun (uncredited)

1938 The Man on the Rock (short)
Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)

1938 A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: They're Always Caught (short)
Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)

1938 Three Comrades
Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)

1937 Decathlon Champion: The Story of Glenn Morris (short)
Glenn's Mother (uncredited)

1937 A Night at the Movies (short)
Movie Patron (uncredited)

1937 Give Till It Hurts (short)
Door-to-Door Saleswoman (uncredited)

1937 High, Wide, and Handsome
Seamstress (uncredited)

1937 West Bound Limited
Undetermined Role (uncredited)

1937 Two-Fisted Sheriff
Miss Herrick, Molly's Aunt

1937 Song of Revolt (short)
Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)

1937 Criminal Lawyer
Night Court Judge (uncredited)

1936 Small Town Girl
Woman in Bed (uncredited)

1936 August Week End
Alma Washburne

1935 Murder by Television
Mrs. Houghland

1935 Black Fury
Nurse (uncredited)

1934 Imitation of Life
Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)

1934 Two Heads on a Pillow
Mrs. Helen Gorman

1934 British Agent
Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)

1934 Dr. Monica
Miss Bryerly (uncredited)

1934 Journal of a Crime
Sister at Hospital (uncredited)

1934 It Happened One Night
Mother on Bus (uncredited)

1934 Bedside
Nurse (uncredited)

1933 Wild Boys of the Road
Mrs. Smith

1933 Paddy the Next Best Thing
Miss Breen (uncredited)

1933 By Appointment Only
Mrs. Mary Carroll

1933 The Working Man
Benjamin's Secretary

1933 Central Airport
Mrs. Blaine

1932 Lawyer Man
Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)

1932 A Successful Calamity
Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)

1932 The Phantom Express
Ma Nolan

1932 Cornered
Jane's Aunt

1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mrs. Randall (uncredited)

1932 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)

1932 The Famous Ferguson Case
Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)

1932 Union Depot
Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)

1931 Manhattan Parade
Nancy - the Maid (uncredited)

1931 Under 18
Seamstress (uncredited)

1931 An American Tragedy
Mrs. Samuel Griffiths

1930 Mothers Cry
Mary's Mother (uncredited)

1930 Brothers
Mrs. Bess Naughton

1930 Wild Company
Mrs. Laura Grayson

1930 The Big House
Mrs. Marlowe

1930 Young Desire
Mrs. Spencer

1930 The Second Floor Mystery
Aunt Hattie

1930 Redemption
Anna Pavlovna

1929 Whispering Winds
Mrs. Benton

1929 The Quitter
Mrs. Abbott

1929 Silks and Saddles
Mrs. Calhoun

1929 The Flying Fleet
Mrs. Hastings - Anita's Mother (uncredited)

1929 When Dreams Come True
Martha Shelby

1928 Marriage by Contract
Mother

1928 The Viking
Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)

1928 4 Devils
Woman

1928 Don't Marry
Aunt Abigail Bowen

1928 The Tragedy of Youth
Mother

1927/I Almost Human
Mrs. Livingston

1927 The Shield of Honor
Mrs. MacDowell

1927 Winds of the Pampas
Doña Maria Casandos

1927 Tillie the Toiler
Ma Jones

1927 The Black Diamond Express
Martha (Dan's sister)

1927 The Taxi Dancer
Aunt Mary

1927 Cheaters
Mrs. Robin Carter

1927 The Auctioneer
Mrs. Tim Eagan

1927 A Little Journey
Aunt Louise

1926 The Flaming Forest
Mrs. McTavish

1926 The Show Off
Mom Fisher (as Clare Mc Dowell)

1926 The Unknown Soldier
John Phillips' sister

1926 The Shamrock Handicap
Molly O'Shea

1926 The Dixie Merchant
Josephine Fippany

1926 The Devil's Circus
Mrs. Peterson

1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Princess of Hur

1925 The Midnight Flyer
Liza Slater

1925 The Big Parade
Mrs. Apperson

1925 One of the Bravest
Mrs. Kelly

1925 The Tower of Lies
Katrina

1925 Dollar Down
Mrs. Meadows (Craig's sister)

1925 Waking Up the Town
Mrs. Joyce

1925 The Reckless Sex
Concha

1924 Those Who Dare
Mrs. Rollins

1924 A Fight for Honor
Mrs. Hill

1924 Secrets
Elizabeth Channing

1924 Thy Name Is Woman
Juan's mother

1924 The Judgment of the Storm
Mrs. Heath

1924 Leave It to Gerry
Mrs. Brent

1923 Black Oxen
Agnes Trevor

1923 Enemies of Children

1923 Rent Free

1923 Ponjola
Mrs. Hope

1923 Ashes of Vengeance
Margot's Aunt

1923 Circus Days
Martha

1923 Human Wreckage
Mrs. Brown

1923 Michael O'Halloran
Nancy Harding

1923 The West~Bound Limited

1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer
Mrs. Putnam

1922 Heart's Haven
May Caroline

1922 Nice People
Margaret Rainsford

1922 In the Name of the Law
Mrs. O'Hara

1922 The Lying Truth
Mrs. Sam Clairborne

1922 The Ragged Heiress
Sylvia Moreton

1922 Penrod
Mrs. Schofield

1922 The Gray Dawn
Mrs. Bennett

1921 Love Never Dies
Liz Trott

1921 Wealth
Mrs. Dominick

1921 Mother o' Mine
Mrs. Sheldon

1921 What Every Woman Knows
Comtesse de la Brière

1921 Chickens
Aunt Rebecca

1921 Prisoners of Love
Her Mother

1920 Midsummer Madness
Mrs. Osborne

1920 The Mark of Zorro
Doña Catalina Pulido

1920 Something to Think About
Housekeeper

1920 The Jack-Knife Man
Lize Merdin (as Claire MacDowell)

1920 Through Eyes of Men
Mrs. Virginia All

1920 Blind Youth
Elizabeth Monnier (as Claire MacDowell)

1920 The Devil's Riddle
Mrs. Potts

1920 The Gift Supreme
Lalia Graun

1920 The Woman in the Suitcase
Mrs. James B. Moreland

1919 The Feud
Mary Lynch

1919 Heart o' the Hills
Martha Hawn

1919 Chasing Rainbows
Mrs. Walters

1919 Prudence on Broadway
Miss Grayson

1919 The Follies Girl
Nina

1919 Rosalind at Redgate (short)

1918 The Return of Mary
Mrs. John Denby Sr.

1918 Closin' In

1918 You Can't Believe Everything
Grace Dardley

1918 Isn't It Warm? (short)

1918 Captain of His Soul
Annette De Searcy

1918 The Man Above the Law
Natchah

1917 The Ship of Doom
Clara Gove

1917 Fighting Back
The Fury

1917 The Storm Woman (short)

1917 A Romany Rose (short)

1917 A Dream of Egypt (short)

1917 The Empty Gun (short)
Mary

1917 The Clean-Up
Vera Vincent

1917 The Black Mantilla (short)
Marachita

1917 Doomed (short)

1917 The Pace That Kills (short)

1917 The Bronze Bride
A-Che-Chee

1917 The Gates of Doom
Indore/Agatha

1917 The Rented Man (short)

1917 Avarice (short)
The Miserly Old Woman

1916 The Right to Be Happy
Mrs. Cratchit

1916 Mixed Blood
Nita Valyez

1916 A Stranger from Somewhere

1916 Sea Mates (short)

1916 Somewhere on the Battle Field (short)

1916 Husks of Love (short)

1916 The Caravan (short)

1916 The Lady from the Sea (short)

1916 Merry Mary (short)

1916 Celeste (short)

1916 Paths That Crossed (short)

1916 A Grip of Gold (short)

1916 What Happened to Peggy (short)

1916 His White Lie (short)

1916 The Chain of Evidence (short)

1915 Cupid Entangled (short)
The Actress

1915 Love's Enduring Flame (short)

1915 Eyes of the Soul (short)

1915 The Passing Storm (short)

1915 Bad Money (short)

1915 The Inevitable (short)

1915 Her Renunciation (short)
Miriam Drayton

1915 Behind the Mask (short)
Mrs. Rathbone

1915 A Lasting Lesson (short)

1915 The Stranger in the Valley (short)
Mabel Burton

1915 Ashes of Inspiration (short)
Mrs. Adrian West

1915 Mrs. Randolph's New Secretary (short)
Mrs. Randolph

1915 His Singular Lesson (short)
Mrs. Smith - the Wife

1915 As It Happened (short)
The ranchman's daughter

1915 Old Offenders (short)
Joe's Wife

1915 Her Convert (short)
The Old Inventor's Daughter

1915 The Way Out (short)
The Young School Teacher

1915 Her Dormant Love (short)
The Discontented Wife

1915 Truth Stranger Than Fiction (short)
Crook

1915 The Canceled Mortgage (short)
The Widowed Mother

1915 A Day's Adventure (short)
Hogan's Moll

1915 The Gambler's I.O.U. (short)
Wilson's daughter

1915 The Miser's Legacy (short)
The Crook's Wife

1915 The Sheriff's Dilemma (short)
Molly

1915 The Box of Chocolates (short)
Lorimer's Daughter

1915 The Borrowed Necklace (short)
Florence Barlow

1915 The Dancer's Ruse (short)
Lydia - the Dancer

1915 The Inevitable Retribution (short)
His wife

1915 From the Shadow (short)
His daughter

1914 The Bond Sinister (short)
The Jeweler's Daughter

1914 Just a Kid (short)
Alice - Jim's Best Girl

1914 His Old Pal's Sacrifice (short)
The Nurse

1914 The Child Thou Gavest Me (short)
Mrs. Graham

1914 The Dole of Destiny (short)
Ruth - the Planter's Daugher

1914 The Tides of Sorrow (short)
Ruth

1914 Their Soldier Boy (short)
The Young Man's Sweetheart

1914 The Guiding Fate (short)
The Wife

1914 The Gold Thief (short)
The Stenographer

1914 The Indian (short)

1914 The Peddler's Bag (short)
The Faithful Wife

1914 The New Reporter (short)
The Newspaper Owner's Daughter

1914 Men and Women (short)
Mrs. Stephen Rodman

1914 The Man and the Master (short)

1914 The Cracksman's Gratitude (short)

1914 The Ragamuffin (short)
The Schoolteacher

1914 Her Mother's Weakness (short)
The Daughter

1914 The Scar (short)

1914 Her Hand (short)
Olga

1914 For Auld Lang Syne (short)
The Wife

1914 The Massacre (short)
Stephen's Belle, In Prologue

1914 Her Father's Silent Partner (short)

1914 A Nest Unfeathered (short)
Kate

1914 His Fireman's Conscience (short)
Mrs. Daily

1914/II The Fatal Wedding (short)

1914 Waifs (short)

1914 Concentration (short)
The Mother

1913 The Abandoned Well (short)
The Widow

1913 For Her Government (short)

1913 Beyond All Law (short)

1913 The House of Discord (short)
The Sister-in-Law (unconfirmed)

1913 All for Science (short)
Detective

1913 The Detective's Stratagem (short)
Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart

1913 Diversion (short)
Mrs. Wilson

1913 The Stopped Clock (short)
The Antique Dealer's Daughter

1913 The Van Nostrand Tiara (short)
Kate

1913 A Tender-Hearted Crook (short)
Edith

1913 The Law and His Son (short)
Marguerite, Manning's Sister

1913 The Stolen Treaty (short)
Olga

1913 The Strong Man's Burden (short)
The Nurse

1913 The Crook and the Girl (short)
The Uncle's Adopted Daughter

1913 The Work Habit (short)
The Daughter in the City

1913 I Was Meant for You (short)
Lavina

1913 Under the Shadow of the Law (short)
John Haywood's Sister

1913 The Vengeance of Galora (short)
Galora

1913 The Mirror (short)
Daisy

1913 A Gambler's Honor (short)
Beth

1913 The Enemy's Baby (short)
Miller's Wife

1913 A Gamble with Death (short)
Kate

1913 The Switch Tower (short)
The Switchman's Wife

1913 The Well (short)
The Farmer's Wife

1913 The Ranchero's Revenge (short)
The Schemer's Associate

1913 Olaf-An Atom (short)
A Parent

1913 The House of Darkness (short)
The Doctor's Wife

1913 The Stolen Loaf (short)
The Rich Woman

1913 The Tenderfoot's Money (short)
The Prospector's Wife

1913/II The Wanderer (short)
The Female Lover

1913 The Stolen Bride (short)
The Wife

1913 A Welcome Intruder (short)
A Widow

1913 The Unwelcome Guest (short)
The Wife

1913 The Wrong Bottle (short)
The Blind Sister

1913 Drink's Lure (short)
The Neglected Wife

1913 A Father's Lesson (short)
The Wife

1913 A Misappropriated Turkey (short)
Mrs. Fallon

1913 The Telephone Girl and the Lady (short)
The Lady

1912 The God Within (short)
The Woodsman's Wife

1912 A Cry for Help (short)
Charity Patient

1912 The New York Hat (short)
First Gossip

1912 A Sailor's Heart (short)
The Second Wife

1912 In the Aisles of the Wild (short)
The Elder Daughter

1912 So Near, Yet So Far (short)
Rich Woman in Other Town

1912 Two Daughters of Eve (short)
The Mother

1912 In the North Woods (short)
The Trapper's Wife

1912 A Child's Remorse (short)
The Child's Mother

1912 The Sands of Dee (short)
The Artist's Fiancée

1912 Man's Genesis (short)
Cave Woman (unconfirmed)

1912 Trying to Fool Uncle (short)
Dick's Wife

1912 The School Teacher and the Waif (short)
The Street Fakir's Sweetheart

1912 Lena and the Geese (short)
Lena's Mother

1912 A Temporary Truce (short)
Mexican Jim's Wife

1912 When Kings Were the Law (short)
A Lady-in-Waiting

1912 When the Fire-Bells Rang (short)
An Actress

1912 The Old Actor (short)
At Audition

1912 The Fickle Spaniard (short)
Margot

1912 The Leading Man (short)
A Boarder

1912 The Female of the Species (short)
The Miner's Wife

1912 Iola's Promise (short)

1912 A String of Pearls (short)
In Tenement

1912 The Sunbeam (short)
Spinster

1912 Under Burning Skies (short)
A Friend

1912 Billy's Stratagem (short)
Billy's Mother

1912 A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (short)
A Lady

1912 The Baby and the Stork (short)
Bobby's Mother

1911/I As in a Looking Glass
The Wife

1911 The Failure (short)

1911 A Woman Scorned (short)
The Doctor's Wife

1911 The Long Road (short)
Ned's Wife

1911 The Adventures of Billy (short)
Rich Woman

1911 The Unveiling (short)

1911 The Making of a Man (short)
Actress

1911 The Squaw's Love (short)
Silver Fawn

1911 Swords and Hearts (short)
Irene Lambert

1911 The Sorrowful Example (short)
The Wife

1911 The Ruling Passion (short)
Billy's Mother

1911 A Country Cupid (short)
The Half-Wit's Mother

1911 The Primal Call (short)
The Woman

1911 A Romany Tragedy (short)
Elder Sister

1911 The Crooked Road (short)
A Neighbor

1911 The Manicure Lady (short)
Lunchroom Hostess

1911 In the Days of '49 (short)
Edith Weston, Bill's Wife

1911 Misplaced Jealousy (short)
The Manicurist

1911/I The Chief's Daughter (short)
Susan, Frank's Fiancée

1911 The Broken Cross (short)
Kate's Mother

1911 The Spanish Gypsy (short)
Paula

1911 Cured (short)
Old Woman

1911 Conscience (short)
A Maid

1911 A Decree of Destiny (short)
A Nun

1911 Fisher Folks (short)
At Fair

1911 What Shall We Do with Our Old? (short)
The Old Carpenter's Wife

1911 Three Sisters (short)
Investigating Committee

1911 Fate's Turning (short)
At Hotel/At Wedding

1911 His Trust Fulfilled (short)
Mrs. Frazier (the dying mother)

1911 His Trust (short)
Col. Frazier's wife

1911 The Italian Barber (short)
At Ball

1910 The Recreation of an Heiress (short)
The Heiress' Maid

1910 His Sister-In-Law (short)
Maiden Aunt

1910 The Golden Supper (short)
Lady-in-Waiting

1910 Happy Jack, a Hero (short)
The Maid

1910 A Child's Stratagem (short)
The Designing Woman

1910 His New Lid (short)
Mourner

1910 Simple Charity (short)
Charity Worker

1910 The Fugitive (short)
Woman in Farewell Crowd

1910 Waiter No. 5 (short)
The Chief of Police's Wife

1910 Two Little Waifs (short)
Nun

1910 The Message of the Violin (short)
The Other Woman's Servant

1910 A Lucky Toothache (short)
A Cousin

1910 How Hubby Got a Raise (short)
Neighbor

1910 The Iconoclast (short)
The Worker's Wife

1910 Rose O'Salem Town (short)
Indian/Puritan

1910 The Oath and the Man (short)
Rebel

1910 A Mohawk's Way (short)
Indian Mother

1910 A Summer Idyll (short)
At Party

1910 Muggsy Becomes a Hero (short)
One of the Sisters Frost

1910 Wilful Peggy (short)
The maid

1910 The Usurer (short)
Despairing Mother/One of the Third Debtors

1910 A Flash of Light (short)
At First Party

1910 Love Among the Roses (short)

1910 His Last Burglary (short)

1908 The Call of the Wild (short)
Party Guest

1908 The Planter's Wife (short)
Mrs. John Holland

1908/I The Devil (short)
Mrs. Thornton

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Claire McDowell (1877–1966)

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	STARmeter SEE RANK Down 25,920 this week View rank on IMDbPro » Claire McDowell (1877–1966) Actress Trivia: Off screen pseudonym: Doris Carlton See more trivia » Born: November 2, 1877 in New York City, New York, USA Died: October 23, 1966 (age 88) in Hollywood, California, USA