Occupation Actress Years active 1912-1949 | Name Claire Whitney Role Film actress | |
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Born May 6, 1890 ( 1890-05-06 ) New York City, New York, U.S. Movies Oklahoma Badlands, The Great Gatsby, False Faces, Fighting Death, Life's Shop Window Similar People J Gordon Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Yakima Canutt, Robert G Vignola, George Sherman | ||
Claire Whitney (May 6, 1890 – August 27, 1969) was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in 111 films between 1912 and 1949. She made her first film in 1913 for Solax and continued making films until 1921, mainly for Fox Film Corporation. Whitney came back to films in 1926 with a role in The Great Gatsby which would be her final silent film. She continued working in film between 1931 and 1949 when she retired.
Whitney died in Los Angeles on August 27, 1969 at the age of 79. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, next to her husband, Robert Emmett Keane.
Filmography
Actress
1955
General Electric Theater (TV Series)
- Amelia (1955)
1949
Dancing in the Dark as
Board Member (uncredited)
1949
Roaring Westward as
Aunt Jessica Martin
1949
Frontier Investigator as
Molly Bright
1949
An Old-Fashioned Girl as
Miss Mills
1948
Ladies of the Chorus as
Mrs. Windrift - Party Guest (uncredited)
1948
The Snake Pit as
Inmate (uncredited)
1948
The Strange Mrs. Crane as
Edna Emmerson
1948
The Babe Ruth Story as
Mrs. Jackson - Johnny's Mother (uncredited)
1948
Cowboy Cavalier as
Mary Croft - aka Collins
1948
California Firebrand as
Prunella (uncredited)
1948
Oklahoma Badlands as
Agatha Scragg
1948
Rocky as
Hortense
1947
Dangerous Years as
Woman (uncredited)
1947
Christmas Eve as
Mrs. Bunyan
1947
Railroaded! as
Mrs. Atkins (uncredited)
1947
Kilroy Was Here as
Townswoman (uncredited)
1946
She Wrote the Book as
Matron (uncredited)
1946
The Haunted Mine as
Mrs. Durant
1946
Smooth as Silk as
Middle-Aged Woman (uncredited)
1945
Anchors Aweigh as
USO Mother (uncredited)
1945
G.I. Honeymoon as
Mrs. Brown
1945
A Guy, a Gal and a Pal as
Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
1945
Keep Your Powder Dry as
WAC Seamstress #1 (uncredited)
1945
Under Western Skies as
Mrs. Mathilda Simms (uncredited)
1945
She Gets Her Man as
Landlady (uncredited)
1944
When Strangers Marry as
Wife on Train
1944
Gypsy Wildcat as
Maid (uncredited)
1944
The Mummy's Ghost as
Mrs. Norman
1944
Ladies of Washington as
Taxi Passenger (uncredited)
1944
Moon Over Las Vegas as
Mrs. Towers, Grace's Mother (uncredited)
1944
It Happened Tomorrow as
Woman at Boardinghouse (uncredited)
1944
Hat Check Honey as
Mrs. Worthington (uncredited)
1943
The Woman of the Town as
Mrs. Robert Wright
1943
Tender Comrade as
Nurse (uncredited)
1943
Wintertime as
Bridge Player (uncredited)
1943
So's Your Uncle as
Marta
1943
Get Going as
Secretary
1943
False Faces as
Agnes Harding (uncredited)
1943
Mister Big as
Theatrical Party Member (uncredited)
1942
Behind the Eight Ball as
Woman (uncredited)
1942
Silver Queen as
Mrs. Harriet Bailey (uncredited)
1942
The Silver Bullet as
Emily Morgan
1942
There's One Born Every Minute as
Mrs. Barstow (uncredited)
1942
Lady in a Jam as
Woman at Auction (uncredited)
1942
Saboteur as
Wife in Movie Audience (uncredited)
1942
Frisco Lil as
Nell Brewster
1941
Mob Town as
Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
1941
In the Navy as
Gushing Mother (uncredited)
1940
Dance, Girl, Dance as
Night Court Spectator (uncredited)
1940
The House of the Seven Gables as
Witness (uncredited)
1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective as
Maid (uncredited)
1939
Laugh It Off as
Miss Martin (uncredited)
1939
Chip of the Flying U as
Miss Robinson
1939
Tower of London as
Civilian Woman (uncredited)
1939
When Tomorrow Comes as
Waitress (uncredited)
1939
I Stole a Million as
Hospital Matron (uncredited)
1939
The Forgotten Woman as
Woman Reporter (uncredited)
1938
Secrets of a Nurse as
Nurse (uncredited)
1938
Red Barry as
Secretary (uncredited)
1938
Letter of Introduction as
Nurse Ryan (uncredited)
1935
Way Down East as
Quilting Party Woman
1934
Enlighten Thy Daughter as
Alice Stevens
1931
A Free Soul as
Aunt Helen (uncredited)
1931
The Iron Man as
Louise Lewis (uncredited)
1929
Room 909 (Short) as
The Hotel Chambermaid
1929
Gossip (Short) as
Alice - Bill's Wife
1926
The Great Gatsby as
Catherine
1921
The Leech as
Dorothy
1921
Fine Feathers as
Jane Reynolds
1921
The Passionate Pilgrim as
Esther
1920
Love, Honor and Obey as
Marion Holbury
1920
A Common Level as
Marion Schuyler
1920
Why Women Sin as
Baroness de Ville
1920
The Chamber Mystery as
Kitty Parker
1920
Mothers of Men as
Marie Helmar
1919
You Never Know Your Luck
1919
The Isle of Conquest as
Claire Wilson
1919
The Career of Katherine Bush as
Lady Beatrice Strobridge
1919
The Immovable Guest (Short)
1919
The Man Who Stayed at Home as
Molly Preston
1918
Kaiser's Finish as
Emily Busch
1918
Ruling Passions as
Louise Palmer
1918
Moral Suicide as
Lucy Daniels
1917
Shirley Kaye as
Daisy Magen
1917
Thou Shalt Not Steal as
Madeleine
1917
Camille as
Celeste Duval
1917
When False Tongues Speak as
Helen Lee
1917
Heart and Soul as
Bess
1917
Tangled Lives as
Marion Halcombe
1917
The New York Peacock as
Billy's Wife
1916
The Victim as
Edna Boulden
1916
Jealousy
1916
The Straight Way as
Nell Madison
1916
Sporting Blood as
Bessie Riddle
1916
Under Two Flags as
Venitia
1916
East Lynne as
Barbara Hare
1916
The Spider and the Fly as
Nana
1916
A Wife's Sacrifice as
Pauline de Moray
1916
The Ruling Passion as
Claire Sherlock
1915
Life's Shop Window
1915
The Mysterious Bride (Short)
1915
The Galley Slave as
Cecil Blaine
1915
Blindness of Devotion as
Bella
1915
The Song of Hate as
Undetermined Role
1915
Should a Mother Tell as
Baroness Gauntier
1915
The Plunderer as
Joan Presby
1915
The Nigger as
Georgiana Byrd
1915
The Girl I Left Behind Me as
The General's Daughter
1914
The Idler as
Kate Merryweather
1914
The Burglar and the Lady as
Norma
1914
The Walls of Jericho as
Lady Althea
1914
Life's Shop Window as
Lydia Wilton
1914
The Lure
1914
The Million Dollar Robbery as
Daphne Pell
1914
The Woman of Mystery as
Norma
1914
A Fight for Freedom; or, Exiled to Siberia
1914
Fighting Death (Short) as
Clara
1914
The Dream Woman (Short) as
Alicia Warlock - The Woman in Black
1914
Beneath the Czar as
Anna Pavlowa
1913
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge as
Mrs. Dupont
1913
Ben Bolt (Short) as
Alice Lee
1913
The Star of India as
Captain Kenneth's Wife
1913
The Rogues of Paris (Short)
1913
The Closed Door (Short) as
Florence's Sister
1912
The Paralytic (Short) as
Blanche
Archive Footage
2006
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (Documentary)
References
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