Claire McDowell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1877-10-31 (89 years old)

Deathday

1966-10-23

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Claire McDowell

Biography

Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945. Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers. She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The co...

Acting

1912

The New York Hat

as The Main Gossip

1925

The Big Parade

as Mrs. Apperson

1925

1923

Ponjola

as Mrs. Hope

1926

The Flaming Forest

as Mrs. McTavish

1917

1918

1935

Murder by Television

as Mrs. Houghland

1919

The Feud

as Mary Lynch

1913

The Switchtower

as The Switchman's Wife

1927

1912

1912

1920

The Mark of Zorro

as Dona Catalina Pulido

1922

Rent Free

as Countess de Mourney

1929

The Quitter

as Mrs. Abbott

1912

1918

1930

The Big House

as Mrs. Marlowe

1921

Prisoners of Love

as Her Mother

1922

Quincy Adams Sawyer

as Mrs. Putnam

1929

Silks and Saddles

as Mrs. Calhoun

1933

1912

The Sands of Dee

as Artist's fiancee

1912

1912

In the Aisles of the Wild

as The Elder Daughter

1912

A Cry for Help

as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient

1913

A Misappropriated Turkey

as Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan

1913

The Wrong Bottle

as The Blind Sister

1913

The Tenderfoot's Money

as The Prospector's Wife

1913

The Stolen Loaf

as The Rich Woman

1913

The Ranchero's Revenge

as The Schemer's Associate

1913

The Well

as The Farmer's Wife

1913

The Mirror

as Daisy

1913

The Enemy's Baby

as Miller's Wife

1928

Don't Marry

as Aunt Abigail Bowen

1913

Under the Shadow of the Law

as John Haywood's Sister

1913

1913

The Crook and the Girl

as The Uncle's Adopted Daughter

1913

The Work Habit

as The Daughter in the City

1913

The Law and His Son

as Marguerite, Manning's Sister

1913

The Detective's Stratagem

as Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart

1913

All for Science

as Detective

1913

The Stopped Clock

as The Antique Dealer's Daughter

1914

Concentration

as The Mother

1913

The Abandoned Well

as The Widow

1933

The Working Man

as Benjamin's Secretary

1932

1932

Under Eighteen

as Seamstress (uncredited)

1912

The Massacre

as Stephen's Belle - In Prologue

1914

1914

1914

Her Hand

as Olga

1915

A Day's Adventure

as Hogan's Moll

1915

The Miser's Legacy

as The Crook's Wife

1915

The Gambler's I.O.U.

as Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter

1915

The Canceled Mortgage

as The Widowed Mother

1915

Her Dormant Love

as The Discontented Wife

1915

The Way Out

as The Young School Teacher

1915

Her Convert

as The Old Inventor's Daughter

1915

Old Offenders

as Joe's Wife

1915

As It Happened

as The Ranchman's Daughter

1925

The Midnight Flyer

as Liza Slater

1927

1912

The Old Actor

as At Audition

1934

Bedside

as Nurse

1911

His Trust

as Col. Frazier's wife

1913

The House of Discord

as The Sister-in-Law

1914

Men and Women

as Mrs. Stephen Rodman

1911

What Shall We Do with Our Old?

as The Old Carpenter's Wife

1916

The Right to Be Happy

as Mrs. Cratchit

1930

1930

Redemption

as Anna Pavlovna

1912

The Sunbeam

as The Spinster

1912

The School Teacher and the Waif

as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart

1911

A Country Cupid

as The Half-Wit's Mother

1911

His Trust Fulfilled

as Mrs. Frazier

1936

August Week End

as Alma Washburne

1924

1923

Ashes of Vengeance

as Margot's Aunt

1917

1919

Heart o' the Hills

as Martha Hawn

1925

1926

The Shamrock Handicap

as Molly O'Shea

1910

Muggsy Becomes a Hero

as One of the Sisters Frost

1933

By Appointment Only

as Mrs. Mary Carroll

1922

Nice People

as Margaret Rainsford

1921

Midsummer Madness

as Mrs. Osborne

1928

The Viking

as Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)

1924

Secrets

as Elizabeth Channing

1927

Almost Human

as Mrs. Livingston

1911

Swords and Hearts

as Irene Lambert

1912

Man's Genesis

as Cave Woman

1936

Small Town Girl

as Woman in Bed (uncredited)

1934

Two Heads on a Pillow

as Mrs. Helen Gorman

1934

British Agent

as Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)

1929

The Flying Fleet

as Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)

1910

A Flash of Light

as At First Party

1931

Manhattan Parade

as Nancy - the Maid

1927

The Shield of Honor

as Mrs. MacDowell

1937

A Night at the Movies

as Movie Patron (uncredited)

1934

Journal of a Crime

as Sister at Hospital (uncredited)

1911

The Primal Call

as The Woman

1938

Three Comrades

as Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)

1920

The Gift Supreme

as Lalia Graun

1939

1932

The Famous Ferguson Case

as Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)

1937

Two-Fisted Sheriff

as Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt

1939

Idiot's Delight

as Crying Mother

1930

Mothers Cry

as Mary's Mother

1939

Thunder Afloat

as Nurse (uncredited)

1939

Miracles for Sale

as Jack of Diamonds Woman

1921

Love Never Dies

as Liz Trott

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

as Counterwoman (uncredited)

1934

It Happened One Night

as Mother on Bus (uncredited)

1940

A Failure at Fifty

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1912

Under Burning Skies

as The Friend

1924

Those Who Dare

as Mrs. Rollins

1926

The Devil's Circus

as Mrs. Peterson

1911

The Manicure Lady

as Lunchroom Hostess

1917

Avarice

as The Miserly Old Woman

1912

A Sailor’s Heart

as The Sailor's Third Sweetheart

1940

Young Tom Edison

as Woman at Station

1920

1920

The Jack-Knife Man

as Lize Merdin

1930

Young Desire

as Mrs. Spencer

1912

Billy's Stratagem

as Billy's Mother

1944

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

as Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)

1913

The Strong Man's Burden

as Ida Glynn, The Nurse

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Woman in Bathroom

1930

Wild Company

as Mrs. Laura Grayson

1926

The Unknown Soldier

as John Phillips' sister

1940

The Golden Fleecing

as Pedestrian (uncredited)

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)

1910

The Golden Supper

as Lady-in-Waiting

1931

An American Tragedy

as Mrs. Samuel Griffiths

1932

A Successful Calamity

as Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)

1934

Dr. Monica

as Miss Bryerly (uncredited)

1939

Angel of Mercy

as Mother (uncredited)

1933

Central Airport

as Mrs. Blaine

1923

Michael O'Halloran

as Nancy Harding

1938

Test Pilot

as Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)

1923

Enemies of Children

as Godfrey sister

1925

1926

The Dixie Merchant

as Josephine Fippany

1932

Lawyer Man

as Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)

1932

Cornered

as Jane's Aunt

1927

A Little Journey

as Aunt Louise

1927

The Auctioneer

as Mrs. Tim Eagan

1925

Waking Up the Town

as Mrs. Joyce

1910

The Usurer

as Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors

1927

The Taxi Dancer

as Aunt Mary

1938

Boys Town

as Nun (uncredited)

1910

Waiter No. 5

as The Chief of Police's Wife

1912

The Female of the Species

as The Miner's Wife

1913

1912

Lena and the Geese

as Lena's Mother

1922

Penrod

as Mrs. Schofield

1911

The Long Road

as Ned's Wife

1911

1912

A Temporary Truce

as Mexican Jim's Wife

1911

Fisher Folks

as At Fair

1941

Whispers

as Gossip (uncredited)

1923

Human Wreckage

as Mrs. Brown

1937

Song of Revolt

as Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)

1924

Thy Name Is Woman

as Juan's Mother

1921

What Every Woman Knows

as Comtesse de la Brière

1922

Heart's Haven

as May Caroline

1932

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

as Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)

1938

The Man on the Rock

as Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)

1938

They're Always Caught

as Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)

1943

Du Barry Was a Lady

as Subway Passenger

1943

1917

The Clean-Up

as Vera Vincent

1941

Lady Scarface

as Mrs. Tuckerman

1913

The Wanderer

as The Female Lover

1912

So Near, Yet So Far

as Rich Woman in Other Town

1912

The God Within

as The Woodsman's Wife

1911

A Woman Scorned

as The Doctor's Wife

1923

Circus Days

as Martha

1926

The Show Off

as Mom Fisher

1913

Olaf—An Atom

as A Parent

1934

Imitation of Life

as Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)

1945

Adventure

as Woman in Library (uncredited)

1916

Mixed Blood

as Nita Valyez

1944

Men on Her Mind

as Mother Goodwin

1913

The Stolen Bride

as The Wife

1923

The West~Bound Limited

as Mrs. Bill Buckley

1917

The Gates of Doom

as Indore / Agatha

1939

One Against the World

as Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)

1920

The Woman in the Suitcase

as Mrs. James B. Moreland

1908

The Planter's Wife

as Mrs. John Holland

1913

The House of Darkness

as The Doctor's Wife

1932

Union Depot

as Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)

1917

The Bronze Bride

as A-Che-Chee

1911

The Squaw's Love

as Silver Fawn

1910

Wilful Peggy

as Housemaid

1911

Fate's Turning

as At Hotel/At Wedding

1919

1919

Prudence on Broadway

as Miss Grayson

1930

Brothers

as Bess Naughton

1925

1925

1927

Winds of the Pampas

as Doña Maria Casandos

1910

The Message of the Violin

as The Other Woman's Servant

1920

Through Eyes of Men

as Mrs. Virginia All

1908

The Call of the Wild

as Party Guest

1912

A String of Pearls

as The Italian Shoemaker's Wife

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