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
Also known As
Claire MacDowell
Clare Mc Dowell
Doris Carlton
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...
1912
as The Main Gossip
1925
as Mrs. Apperson
1925
as Princess of Hur
1923
as Mrs. Hope
1926
as Mrs. McTavish
1917
as Daisy
1918
as Annette
1935
as Mrs. Houghland
1919
as Mary Lynch
1913
as The Switchman's Wife
1927
as Ma Jones
1912
as The Mother
1912
as The Workman
1920
as Dona Catalina Pulido
1922
as Countess de Mourney
1929
as Mrs. Abbott
1912
as An Actress
1918
as Grace Dardley
1930
as Mrs. Marlowe
1921
as Her Mother
1922
as Mrs. Putnam
1929
as Mrs. Calhoun
1933
as Mrs. Smith
1912
as Artist's fiancee
1912
as The Mother
1912
as The Elder Daughter
1912
as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
1913
as Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
1913
as The Blind Sister
1913
as The Prospector's Wife
1913
as The Rich Woman
1913
as The Schemer's Associate
1913
as The Farmer's Wife
1913
as Kate
1913
as Daisy
1913
as Galora
1913
as Miller's Wife
1913
as Beth
1928
as Aunt Abigail Bowen
1913
as John Haywood's Sister
1913
as Lavina
1913
as The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
1913
as The Daughter in the City
1913
as Olga
1913
as Marguerite, Manning's Sister
1913
as Kate
1913
as Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
1913
as Detective
1913
as The Antique Dealer's Daughter
1914
as The Mother
1913
as The Widow
1933
as Benjamin's Secretary
1932
as Ma Nolan
1932
as Seamstress (uncredited)
1912
as Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
1914
as Mrs. Daily
1914
as Kate
1914
1914
as Olga
1915
as Hogan's Moll
1915
as Molly
1915
as The Crook's Wife
1915
as Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
1915
as The Widowed Mother
1915
as Crook
1915
as The Discontented Wife
1915
as The Young School Teacher
1915
as The Old Inventor's Daughter
1915
as Joe's Wife
1915
as The Ranchman's Daughter
1925
as Liza Slater
1927
as Martha Foster
1912
as At Audition
1934
as Nurse
1911
as Col. Frazier's wife
1913
as The Sister-in-Law
1914
as Mrs. Stephen Rodman
1911
as The Old Carpenter's Wife
1916
as Mrs. Cratchit
1930
as Aunt Hattie
1930
as Anna Pavlovna
1912
as The Spinster
1912
as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
1911
as The Half-Wit's Mother
1911
as Mrs. Frazier
1936
as Alma Washburne
1924
as Mrs. Heath
1923
as Margot's Aunt
1917
as Mary
1919
as Martha Hawn
1925
as Katrina
1926
as Molly O'Shea
1910
as One of the Sisters Frost
1933
as Mrs. Mary Carroll
1922
as Margaret Rainsford
1921
as Mrs. Osborne
1928
as Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
1924
as Elizabeth Channing
1910
1927
as Mrs. Livingston
1911
as Irene Lambert
1912
as Cave Woman
1936
as Woman in Bed (uncredited)
1934
as Mrs. Helen Gorman
1934
as Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)
1929
as Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
1910
as At First Party
1931
as Nancy - the Maid
1927
as Mrs. MacDowell
1937
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
1934
as Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
1911
as The Woman
1938
as Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
1920
as Lalia Graun
1939
as Woman
1932
as Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
1937
as Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
1939
as Crying Mother
1930
as Mary's Mother
1939
as Nurse (uncredited)
1939
as Jack of Diamonds Woman
1921
as Liz Trott
1943
as Counterwoman (uncredited)
1934
as Mother on Bus (uncredited)
1940
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1912
as The Friend
1924
as Mrs. Rollins
1926
as Mrs. Peterson
1911
as Lunchroom Hostess
1917
as The Miserly Old Woman
1912
as The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
1940
as Woman at Station
1920
as Housekeeper
1908
1920
as Lize Merdin
1930
as Mrs. Spencer
1912
as Billy's Mother
1944
as Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
1913
as Ida Glynn, The Nurse
1943
as Woman in Bathroom
1930
as Mrs. Laura Grayson
1926
as John Phillips' sister
1940
as Pedestrian (uncredited)
1940
as Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
1910
as Lady-in-Waiting
1931
as Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
1932
as Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
1934
as Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
1939
as Mother (uncredited)
1933
as Mrs. Blaine
1923
as Nancy Harding
1938
as Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
1923
as Godfrey sister
1925
as Concha
1926
as Josephine Fippany
1932
as Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
1932
as Jane's Aunt
1911
1927
as Aunt Louise
1927
as Mrs. Tim Eagan
1925
as Mrs. Joyce
1910
as Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
1927
as Aunt Mary
1938
as Nun (uncredited)
1910
as The Chief of Police's Wife
1912
as The Miner's Wife
1911
as A Nun
1913
as The Wife
1912
as Lena's Mother
1913
as The Lady
1922
as Mrs. Schofield
1911
as Ned's Wife
1911
as Rich Woman
1912
as Mexican Jim's Wife
1911
as At Fair
1941
as Gossip (uncredited)
1923
as Mrs. Brown
1937
as Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
1924
as Juan's Mother
1921
as Comtesse de la Brière
1922
as May Caroline
1932
as Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
1938
as Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)
1938
as Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
1943
as Subway Passenger
1943
as Dowager
1916
as Olga
1939
as Gossiper
1917
as Vera Vincent
1941
as Mrs. Tuckerman
1910
1910
1913
as The Female Lover
1912
as Rich Woman in Other Town
1912
as The Woodsman's Wife
1911
as The Doctor's Wife
1923
as Martha
1926
as Mom Fisher
1928
as Mother
1913
as A Parent
1934
as Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
1945
as Woman in Library (uncredited)
1916
as Nita Valyez
1944
as Mother Goodwin
1913
as The Wife
1923
as Mrs. Bill Buckley
1917
1917
as Indore / Agatha
1939
as Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
1920
as Mrs. James B. Moreland
1908
as Mrs. John Holland
1913
as The Doctor's Wife
1932
as Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
1917
as A-Che-Chee
1913
as Edith
1911
as Silver Fawn
1910
as Housemaid
1910
as Rebel
1911
as At Hotel/At Wedding
1919
as Nina
1919
as Miss Grayson
1930
as Bess Naughton
1925
as Mrs. Joyce
1925
as Mrs. Joyce
1927
as Doña Maria Casandos
1915
as Claire
1910
as The Other Woman's Servant
1920
as Mrs. Virginia All
1908
as Party Guest
1912
as The Italian Shoemaker's Wife
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