
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

The Main Gossip
The New York Hat

Mrs. Apperson
The Big Parade

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

Mrs. Hope
Ponjola

Mrs. McTavish
The Flaming Forest

Daisy
The White Raven

Annette
Captain of His Soul

Mrs. Houghland
Murder by Television

Mary Lynch
The Feud

The Fatal Wedding

The Switchman's Wife
The Switchtower

Ma Jones
Tillie the Toiler

The Mother
The Baby and the Stork

The Workman
The Baby and the Stork

Dona Catalina Pulido
The Mark of Zorro

Countess de Mourney
Rent Free

Mrs. Abbott
The Quitter

An Actress
When the Fire-Bells Rang

Mrs. Marlowe
The Big House

Grace Dardley
You Can't Believe Everything

Her Mother
Prisoners of Love

Mrs. Putnam
Quincy Adams Sawyer

Mrs. Calhoun
Silks and Saddles

Mrs. Smith
Wild Boys of the Road

Artist's fiancee
The Sands of Dee

The Mother
Two Daughters of Eve

The Elder Daughter
In the Aisles of the Wild

The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
A Cry for Help

Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
A Misappropriated Turkey

The Blind Sister
The Wrong Bottle

The Prospector's Wife
The Tenderfoot's Money

The Rich Woman
The Stolen Loaf

The Schemer's Associate
The Ranchero's Revenge

The Farmer's Wife
The Well

Kate
A Gamble with Death

Miller's Wife
The Enemy's Baby

Beth
A Gambler's Honor

Daisy
The Mirror

Galora
The Vengeance of Galora

Aunt Abigail Bowen
Don't Marry

John Haywood's Sister
Under the Shadow of the Law

Lavina
I Was Meant for You

The Daughter in the City
The Work Habit

The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
The Crook and the Girl

Olga
The Stolen Treaty

Marguerite, Manning's Sister
The Law and His Son

Kate
The Van Nostrand Tiara

The Antique Dealer's Daughter
The Stopped Clock

Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
The Detective's Stratagem

Detective
All for Science

For Her Government

The Widow
The Abandoned Well

The Mother
Concentration

Benjamin's Secretary
The Working Man

Ma Nolan
The Phantom Express

Seamstress (uncredited)
Under Eighteen

Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
The Massacre

Waifs

Mrs. Daily
His Fireman's Conscience

Kate
A Nest Unfeathered

Her Father's Silent Partner

Olga
Her Hand

Molly
The Sheriff's Dilemma

The Crook's Wife
The Miser's Legacy

Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
The Gambler's I.O.U.

Hogan's Moll
A Day's Adventure

The Widowed Mother
The Canceled Mortgage

Crook
Truth Stranger Than Fiction

The Discontented Wife
Her Dormant Love

The Young School Teacher
The Way Out

The Old Inventor's Daughter
Her Convert

Joe's Wife
Old Offenders

The Ranchman's Daughter
As It Happened

Liza Slater
The Midnight Flyer

Martha Foster
The Black Diamond Express

At Audition
The Old Actor

Nurse
Bedside

Col. Frazier's wife
His Trust

The Sister-in-Law
The House of Discord

The Cracksman's Gratitude

Mrs. Stephen Rodman
Men and Women

The Old Carpenter's Wife
What Shall We Do with Our Old?

Mrs. Cratchit
The Right to Be Happy

Aunt Hattie
The Second Floor Mystery

Anna Pavlovna
Redemption

The Spinster
The Sunbeam

The Half-Wit's Mother
A Country Cupid

The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
The School Teacher and the Waif

Mrs. Frazier
His Trust Fulfilled

Alma Washburne
August Week End

Mrs. Heath
Judgment of the Storm

Keeper of the Flame

Margot's Aunt
Ashes of Vengeance

Mary
The Empty Gun

Martha Hawn
Heart o' the Hills

Katrina
The Tower of Lies

Molly O'Shea
The Shamrock Handicap

One of the Sisters Frost
Muggsy Becomes a Hero

Mrs. Mary Carroll
By Appointment Only

Margaret Rainsford
Nice People

Mrs. Osborne
Midsummer Madness

Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
The Viking

Elizabeth Channing
Secrets

His New Lid

Mrs. Livingston
Almost Human

Irene Lambert
Swords and Hearts

Cave Woman
Man's Genesis

Woman in Bed (uncredited)
Small Town Girl

Mrs. Helen Gorman
Two Heads on a Pillow

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

Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
The Flying Fleet

At First Party
A Flash of Light

Nancy - the Maid
Manhattan Parade

Mrs. MacDowell
The Shield of Honor

Movie Patron (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies

Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
Journal of a Crime

The Woman
The Primal Call

Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
Three Comrades

Lalia Graun
The Gift Supreme

Woman
Stand Up and Fight

Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
The Famous Ferguson Case

Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
Two-Fisted Sheriff

Crying Mother
Idiot's Delight

Mary's Mother
Mothers Cry

Nurse (uncredited)
Thunder Afloat

Jack of Diamonds Woman
Miracles for Sale

Liz Trott
Love Never Dies

Counterwoman (uncredited)
Hangmen Also Die!

Mother on Bus (uncredited)
It Happened One Night

Minor Role (uncredited)
A Failure at Fifty

The Friend
Under Burning Skies

Mrs. Rollins
Those Who Dare

Mrs. Peterson
The Devil's Circus

Lunchroom Hostess
The Manicure Lady

Rose o' Salem Town

The Miserly Old Woman
Avarice

The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
A Sailor’s Heart

Woman at Station
Young Tom Edison

Housekeeper
Something to Think About

The Devil

Love Among the Roses

Lize Merdin
The Jack-Knife Man

Mrs. Spencer
Young Desire

Billy's Mother
Billy's Stratagem

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

Ida Glynn, The Nurse
The Strong Man's Burden

Woman in Bathroom
This Land Is Mine

Mrs. Laura Grayson
Wild Company

John Phillips' sister
The Unknown Soldier

Pedestrian (uncredited)
The Golden Fleecing

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

Lady-in-Waiting
The Golden Supper

Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
An American Tragedy

Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
A Successful Calamity

Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
Dr. Monica

Mother (uncredited)
Angel of Mercy

Mrs. Blaine
Central Airport

Nancy Harding
Michael O'Halloran

Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
Test Pilot

Godfrey sister
Enemies of Children

Concha
The Reckless Sex

Josephine Fippany
The Dixie Merchant

Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
Lawyer Man

Jane's Aunt
Cornered

The Unveiling

Aunt Louise
A Little Journey

Mrs. Tim Eagan
The Auctioneer

Mrs. Joyce
Waking Up the Town

Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
The Usurer

Aunt Mary
The Taxi Dancer

Nun (uncredited)
Boys Town

The Chief of Police's Wife
Waiter No. 5

The Miner's Wife
The Female of the Species

A Nun
A Decree of Destiny

The Wife
The Unwelcome Guest

Lena's Mother
Lena and the Geese

The Lady
The Telephone Girl and the Lady

Mrs. Schofield
Penrod

Ned's Wife
The Long Road

Rich Woman
The Adventures of Billy

Mexican Jim's Wife
A Temporary Truce

At Fair
Fisher Folks

Gossip (uncredited)
Whispers

Mrs. Brown
Human Wreckage

Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
Song of Revolt

Juan's Mother
Thy Name Is Woman

Comtesse de la Brière
What Every Woman Knows

May Caroline
Heart's Haven

Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

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

Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
They're Always Caught

Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady

Dowager
Presenting Lily Mars

Olga
A Stranger from Somewhere

Gossiper
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Vera Vincent
The Clean-Up

Mrs. Tuckerman
Lady Scarface

A Mohawk's Way

The Iconoclast

Rosalind at Redgate

The Female Lover
The Wanderer

Rich Woman in Other Town
So Near, Yet So Far

The Woodsman's Wife
The God Within

The Doctor's Wife
A Woman Scorned

Martha
Circus Days

Mom Fisher
The Show Off

Mother
The Tragedy of Youth

A Parent
Olaf—An Atom

Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
Imitation of Life

Woman in Library (uncredited)
Adventure

Nita Valyez
Mixed Blood

Mother Goodwin
Men on Her Mind

The Wife
The Stolen Bride

Mrs. Bill Buckley
The West~Bound Limited

The Storm Woman

Indore / Agatha
The Gates of Doom

Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
One Against the World

Mrs. James B. Moreland
The Woman in the Suitcase

Mrs. John Holland
The Planter's Wife

The Doctor's Wife
The House of Darkness

Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Union Depot

A-Che-Chee
The Bronze Bride

Edith
A Tender-Hearted Crook

Silver Fawn
The Squaw's Love

Housemaid
Wilful Peggy

Rebel
The Oath and the Man

At Hotel/At Wedding
Fate's Turning

Nina
The Follies Girl

Miss Grayson
Prudence on Broadway

Bess Naughton
Brothers

Mrs. Joyce
The End of the World

Mrs. Joyce
The End of the World

Doña Maria Casandos
Winds of the Pampas

Claire
The Heart of a Bandit

The Other Woman's Servant
The Message of the Violin

Mrs. Virginia All
Through Eyes of Men

Party Guest
The Call of the Wild

The Italian Shoemaker's Wife
A String of Pearls

Woman
4 Devils

Mother
Marriage by Contract

Mrs. Dominick
Wealth

Martha Shelby
When Dreams Come True

Sylvia Moreton
The Ragged Heiress

Mrs. Walters
Chasing Rainbows

Elizabeth Monnier
Blind Youth

Mrs. John Denby Sr.
The Return of Mary

Mrs. Potts
The Devil's Riddle

Agnes Trevor
Black Oxen
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
248
Gender
Female
Birthday
1877-10-31
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Claire MacDowell