Claire McDowell
Acting
🎂 1877-10-31
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 couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes. Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cast credits(238)
Dona Catalina Pulido
1920
Princess of Hur
1925
Mother on Bus (uncredited)
1934
Mrs. Apperson
1925
Counterwoman (uncredited)
1943
Nun (uncredited)
1938
Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
1934
Woman in Bathroom
1943
Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
1938
Woman at Station
1940
Mrs. Marlowe
1930
Subway Passenger
1943
1943
Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
1944
Benjamin's Secretary
1933
Woman in Bed (uncredited)
1936
Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
1934
Dowager
1943
Woman
1939
Mrs. Smith
1933
Crying Mother
1939
Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)
1934
Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
1938
Woman in Library (uncredited)
1945
Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
1932
Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
1940
Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
1931
Cave Woman
1912
Bess Naughton
1930
Mrs. Joyce
1925
Anna Pavlovna
1930
Mrs. Houghland
1935
Seamstress (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Blaine
1933
Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
1932
Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
1912
Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
1929
At First Party
1910
Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Tuckerman
1941
The Main Gossip
1912
Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Margot's Aunt
1923
Jack of Diamonds Woman
1939
Pedestrian (uncredited)
1940
Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
1938
Mrs. Joyce
1925
Mom Fisher
1926
Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
1928
Gossiper
1939
Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
1937
Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
1932
The Mother
1912
Mary's Mother
1930
Martha Hawn
1919
Aunt Mary
1927
The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
1912
A Nun
1911
Mrs. Osborne
1921
Housekeeper
1920
The Wife
1913
Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Hope
1923
Nancy - the Maid
1931
The Switchman's Wife
1913
Molly O'Shea
1926
Daisy
1913
Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
1934
Liz Trott
1921
Mrs. Helen Gorman
1934
1910
Party Guest
1908
The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
1913
Rich Woman in Other Town
1912
Mrs. Laura Grayson
1930
Alma Washburne
1936
The Female Lover
1913
Juan's Mother
1924
Ma Jones
1927
Nurse
1934
The Elder Daughter
1912
Mexican Jim's Wife
1912
Mrs. Tim Eagan
1927
Movie Patron (uncredited)
1937
Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)
1938
Ida Glynn, The Nurse
1913
Aunt Louise
1927
Lunchroom Hostess
1911
Concha
1925
Jane's Aunt
1932
The Chief of Police's Wife
1910
At Audition
1912
Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
1937
The Farmer's Wife
1913
The Sister-in-Law
1913
The Spinster
1912
Aunt Hattie
1930
Elizabeth Channing
1924
Beth
1913
Martha Foster
1927
The Doctor's Wife
1913
Daisy
1917
John Haywood's Sister
1913
Minor Role (uncredited)
1940
Mrs. Abbott
1929
Mrs. Frazier
1911
Mrs. James B. Moreland
1920
The Lady
1913
1908
Lize Merdin
1920
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
1912
Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
1910
Mother Goodwin
1944
Katrina
1925
Mrs. MacDowell
1927
Col. Frazier's wife
1911
Vera Vincent
1917
One of the Sisters Frost
1910
Mrs. Calhoun
1929
Marguerite, Manning's Sister
1913
1910
Mrs. Mary Carroll
1933
Countess de Mourney
1922
The Miner's Wife
1912
Mrs. Livingston
1927
Lena's Mother
1912
Mrs. Heath
1924
Mother (uncredited)
1939
1913
An Actress
1912
The Prospector's Wife
1913
The Half-Wit's Mother
1911
Gossip (uncredited)
1941
Mrs. Putnam
1922
Mrs. Stephen Rodman
1914
Mrs. Schofield
1922
The Woman
1911
The Daughter in the City
1913
Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
1913
The Mother
1912
The Workman
1912
Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
1939
Lady-in-Waiting
1910
A-Che-Chee
1917
Mary Lynch
1919
Comtesse de la Brière
1921
Nita Valyez
1916
Lavina
1913
Ma Nolan
1932
Irene Lambert
1911
Ned's Wife
1911
Liza Slater
1925
Rich Woman
1911
1910
Mrs. Peterson
1926
1911
A Parent
1913
Grace Dardley
1918
The Woodsman's Wife
1912
Housemaid
1910
The Italian Shoemaker's Wife
1912
Miss Grayson
1919
Nina
1919
Galora
1913
Mary
1917
Godfrey sister
1923
Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
1913
1914
Nancy Harding
1923
Hogan's Moll
1915
The Rich Woman
1913
Rebel
1910
Mrs. Spencer
1930
The Widow
1913
The Schemer's Associate
1913
Artist's fiancee
1912
The Old Carpenter's Wife
1911
Detective
1913
Aunt Abigail Bowen
1928
The Friend
1912
At Hotel/At Wedding
1911
The Discontented Wife
1915
1914
Olga
1916
1919
The Blind Sister
1913
Claire
1915
Silver Fawn
1911
Kate
1913
The Other Woman's Servant
1910
Mrs. Bill Buckley
1923
Mrs. Brown
1923
Mrs. John Holland
1908
Annette
1918
At Fair
1911
The Doctor's Wife
1911
The Young School Teacher
1915
Mrs. Virginia All
1920
Martha
1923
Mrs. Cratchit
1916
Mrs. McTavish
1926
May Caroline
1922
Margaret Rainsford
1922
Olga
1914
1910
Mrs. Rollins
1924
Doña Maria Casandos
1927
1917
Indore / Agatha
1917
Mother
1928
Miller's Wife
1913
Mrs. Joyce
1925
1910
Josephine Fippany
1926
Olga
1913
1914
Her Mother
1921
Billy's Mother
1912
John Phillips' sister
1926
Kate
1914
The Crook's Wife
1915
The Wife
1913
Edith
1913
Kate
1913
The Widowed Mother
1915
Lalia Graun
1920
Mrs. Daily
1914
The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
1912
The Miserly Old Woman
1917
Molly
1915
The Mother
1914
1914
Crook
1915
Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
1915
Joe's Wife
1915
The Old Inventor's Daughter
1915
The Ranchman's Daughter
1915
The Antique Dealer's Daughter
1913