Claire McDowell
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.
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Movies
Adventure
Woman in Library (uncredited)
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
Men on Her Mind
Mother Goodwin
Du Barry Was a Lady
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
This Land Is Mine
Woman in Bathroom
Presenting Lily Mars
Dowager
Hangmen Also Die!
Counterwoman (uncredited)
Keeper of the Flame
Lady Scarface
Mrs. Tuckerman
Whispers
Gossip (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
The Golden Fleecing
Pedestrian (uncredited)
A Failure at Fifty
Minor Role (uncredited)
Young Tom Edison
Woman at Station
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Gossiper
Thunder Afloat
Nurse (uncredited)
One Against the World
Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
Miracles for Sale
Jack of Diamonds Woman
Angel of Mercy
Mother (uncredited)
Idiot's Delight
Crying Mother
Stand Up and Fight
Woman
Boys Town
Nun (uncredited)
The Man on the Rock
Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)
They're Always Caught
Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
Three Comrades
Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
Test Pilot
Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
Song of Revolt
Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
Small Town Girl
Woman in Bed (uncredited)
August Week End
Alma Washburne
Murder by Television
Mrs. Houghland
Imitation of Life
Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
Two Heads on a Pillow
Mrs. Helen Gorman
British Agent
Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)
Dr. Monica
Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
Journal of a Crime
Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
It Happened One Night
Mother on Bus (uncredited)
Bedside
Nurse
Wild Boys of the Road
Mrs. Smith
By Appointment Only
Mrs. Mary Carroll
The Working Man
Benjamin's Secretary
Central Airport
Mrs. Blaine
Lawyer Man
Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
A Successful Calamity
Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
The Phantom Express
Ma Nolan
Cornered
Jane's Aunt
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
The Famous Ferguson Case
Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Union Depot
Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Under Eighteen
Seamstress (uncredited)
Manhattan Parade
Nancy - the Maid
An American Tragedy
Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
Mothers Cry
Mary's Mother
Brothers
Bess Naughton
Wild Company
Mrs. Laura Grayson
The Big House
Mrs. Marlowe
Young Desire
Mrs. Spencer
The Second Floor Mystery
Aunt Hattie
Redemption
Anna Pavlovna
The Quitter
Mrs. Abbott
Silks and Saddles
Mrs. Calhoun
The Flying Fleet
Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
When Dreams Come True
Martha Shelby
Marriage by Contract
Mother
The Viking
Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
4 Devils
Woman
Don't Marry
Aunt Abigail Bowen
The Tragedy of Youth
Mother
Almost Human
Mrs. Livingston
The Shield of Honor
Mrs. MacDowell
Winds of the Pampas
Doña Maria Casandos
Tillie the Toiler
Ma Jones
The Black Diamond Express
Martha Foster
The Taxi Dancer
Aunt Mary
The Auctioneer
Mrs. Tim Eagan
A Little Journey
Aunt Louise
The Flaming Forest
Mrs. McTavish
The Show Off
Mom Fisher
The Unknown Soldier
John Phillips' sister
The Shamrock Handicap
Molly O'Shea
The Dixie Merchant
Josephine Fippany
The Devil's Circus
Mrs. Peterson
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Princess of Hur
The Midnight Flyer
Liza Slater
The Big Parade
Mrs. Apperson
The Tower of Lies
Katrina
The End of the World
Mrs. Joyce
The End of the World
Mrs. Joyce
Waking Up the Town
Mrs. Joyce
The Reckless Sex
Concha
Those Who Dare
Mrs. Rollins
Secrets
Elizabeth Channing
Thy Name Is Woman
Juan's Mother
Judgment of the Storm
Mrs. Heath
Enemies of Children
Godfrey sister
Ponjola
Mrs. Hope
Ashes of Vengeance
Margot's Aunt
Circus Days
Martha
Human Wreckage
Mrs. Brown
Michael O'Halloran
Nancy Harding
The West~Bound Limited
Mrs. Bill Buckley
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Mrs. Putnam
Heart's Haven
May Caroline
Nice People
Margaret Rainsford
Penrod
Mrs. Schofield
Rent Free
Countess de Mourney
Love Never Dies
Liz Trott
Wealth
Mrs. Dominick
What Every Woman Knows
Comtesse de la Brière
Midsummer Madness
Mrs. Osborne
Prisoners of Love
Her Mother
The Mark of Zorro
Dona Catalina Pulido
Something to Think About
Housekeeper
The Jack-Knife Man
Lize Merdin
Through Eyes of Men
Mrs. Virginia All
The Gift Supreme
Lalia Graun
The Woman in the Suitcase
Mrs. James B. Moreland
The Feud
Mary Lynch
Heart o' the Hills
Martha Hawn
Prudence on Broadway
Miss Grayson
The Follies Girl
Nina
Rosalind at Redgate
You Can't Believe Everything
Grace Dardley
Captain of His Soul
Annette
The Storm Woman
The Empty Gun
Mary
The Clean-Up
Vera Vincent
The Bronze Bride
A-Che-Chee
The Gates of Doom
Indore / Agatha
Avarice
The Miserly Old Woman
The White Raven
Daisy
The Right to Be Happy
Mrs. Cratchit
Mixed Blood
Nita Valyez
A Stranger from Somewhere
Olga
As It Happened
The Ranchman's Daughter
Old Offenders
Joe's Wife
Her Convert
The Old Inventor's Daughter
The Way Out
The Young School Teacher
Her Dormant Love
The Discontented Wife
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Crook
The Canceled Mortgage
The Widowed Mother
A Day's Adventure
Hogan's Moll
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
The Miser's Legacy
The Crook's Wife
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Molly
The Heart of a Bandit
Claire
Men and Women
Mrs. Stephen Rodman
The Cracksman's Gratitude
Her Hand
Olga
Her Father's Silent Partner
A Nest Unfeathered
Kate
His Fireman's Conscience
Mrs. Daily
The Fatal Wedding
Waifs
Concentration
The Mother
The Abandoned Well
The Widow
For Her Government
The House of Discord
The Sister-in-Law
All for Science
Detective
The Detective's Stratagem
Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
The Stopped Clock
The Antique Dealer's Daughter
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Kate
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Edith
The Law and His Son
Marguerite, Manning's Sister
The Stolen Treaty
Olga
The Strong Man's Burden
Ida Glynn, The Nurse
The Crook and the Girl
The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
The Work Habit
The Daughter in the City
Under the Shadow of the Law
John Haywood's Sister
I Was Meant for You
Lavina
The Vengeance of Galora
Galora
A Misappropriated Turkey
Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
The Mirror
Daisy
A Gambler's Honor
Beth
A Gamble with Death
Kate
The Switchtower
The Switchman's Wife
The Well
The Farmer's Wife
The Enemy's Baby
Miller's Wife
The Ranchero's Revenge
The Schemer's Associate
Olaf—An Atom
A Parent
The Stolen Loaf
The Rich Woman
The House of Darkness
The Doctor's Wife
The Tenderfoot's Money
The Prospector's Wife
The Wanderer
The Female Lover
The Stolen Bride
The Wife
The Unwelcome Guest
The Wife
The Wrong Bottle
The Blind Sister
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
The Lady
The God Within
The Woodsman's Wife
A Cry for Help
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
The Massacre
Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
The New York Hat
The Main Gossip
A Sailor’s Heart
The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Elder Daughter
So Near, Yet So Far
Rich Woman in Other Town
Two Daughters of Eve
The Mother
Man's Genesis
Cave Woman
The School Teacher and the Waif
The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
Lena and the Geese
Lena's Mother
A Temporary Truce
Mexican Jim's Wife
When the Fire-Bells Rang
An Actress
The Old Actor
At Audition
The Female of the Species
The Miner's Wife
A String of Pearls
The Italian Shoemaker's Wife
The Sunbeam
The Spinster
The Sands of Dee
Artist's fiancee
Under Burning Skies
The Friend
Billy's Stratagem
Billy's Mother
The Baby and the Stork
The Mother
A Woman Scorned
The Doctor's Wife
The Long Road
Ned's Wife
The Adventures of Billy
Rich Woman
The Unveiling
The Squaw's Love
Silver Fawn
Swords and Hearts
Irene Lambert
A Country Cupid
The Half-Wit's Mother
The Primal Call
The Woman
The Manicure Lady
Lunchroom Hostess
A Decree of Destiny
A Nun
Fisher Folks
At Fair
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
The Old Carpenter's Wife
Fate's Turning
At Hotel/At Wedding
His Trust Fulfilled
Mrs. Frazier
His Trust
Col. Frazier's wife
The Golden Supper
Lady-in-Waiting
His New Lid
Waiter No. 5
The Chief of Police's Wife
The Message of the Violin
The Other Woman's Servant
The Iconoclast
Rose o' Salem Town
The Oath and the Man
Rebel
A Mohawk's Way
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
One of the Sisters Frost
Wilful Peggy
Housemaid
The Usurer
Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
A Flash of Light
At First Party
Love Among the Roses
The Call of the Wild
Party Guest
The Planter's Wife
Mrs. John Holland
The Devil