Claire Adams
Appearance
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Claire Adams | |
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![]() Adams in 1920 | |
Born | Beryl Vere Nassau Adams 24 September 1898 |
Died | 25 September 1978 | (aged 80)
Years active | 1912–1963 |
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Claire Adams (née Beryl Vere Nassau Adams; 24 September 1898 – 25 September 1978) was a silent film actress and benefactor. She was born in Canada, studied there and in England, and developed a movie career in Hollywood. She spent the second half of her life in Australia.[1][2][3][4]
Death
[edit]Adams died on 25 September 1978, in Windsor, Victoria, aged 80, and was cremated.[5]
Filmography
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1934 | What a Mother-in-Law! | Frances | |
1927 | Combat | Wanda | |
Married Alive | Viola Helmesley Duxbury | ||
The Lunatic | |||
1926 | The Sea Wolf | Maud Brewster | |
Combat | Wanda | ||
Yellow Fingers | Nona Deering | ||
1925 | The Big Parade | Justyn Reed | |
The Wheel | Kate O'Hara | ||
Souls for Sables | Helen Ralston[6] | Uncredited | |
The Kiss Barrier | Marion Weston | ||
Men and Women | Agnes Prescott | ||
The Devil's Cargo | Martha Joyce | ||
1924 | The Brass Bowl | Sylvia | |
The Fast Set | Fay Colleen | ||
The Painted Flapper | Eunice Whitney | ||
Helen's Babies | Helen Lawrence | ||
Oh, You Tony! | Betty Faine | ||
Honor Among Men | Patricia Carson | ||
The Girl in the Limousine | The Girl | ||
Missing Daughters | Claire Mathers | ||
The Night Hawk | Clia Milton | ||
Daddies | Bobette Audrey | ||
1923 | The Clean Up | Phyllis Andrews | |
Legally Dead | Minnie O'Reilly | ||
Where the North Begins | Felice McTavish | ||
Stepping Fast | Helen Durant | ||
Brass Commandments | Ellen Bosworth | ||
The Scarlet Car | Beatrice Forbes | ||
1922 | Do and Dare | Juanita Sánchez | |
Heart's Haven | Vivian Breed | ||
Just Tony | Marianne Jordan | ||
Golden Dreams | Mercedes McDonald | ||
When Romance Rides | Lucy Bostil | ||
The Gray Dawn | Nan Bennett | ||
1921 | The Mysterious Rider | Columbine | |
The Man of the Forest | Helen Raynor | ||
A Certain Rich Man | Molly Culpepper | ||
The Lure of Egypt | Margaret Lampton | ||
Black Beauty | Claire Adams is not in the Vitagraph film. She appeared in a competing rival version of the story produced by Eskay Harris Feature Film Company.[7] | ||
The Killer | Ruth Emory | ||
The Spenders | Avice Milbrey | ||
1920 | The Dwelling Place of Light | Janet Butler | |
The Penalty | Barbara | ||
Riders of the Dawn | Lenore Anderson | ||
The White Dove | Ella De Fries | Credited as Clare Adams | |
The Key to Power | Ann Blair | ||
The Money Changers | Lucy Hegan | ||
The Great Lover | Ethel | ||
1919 | The Invisible Bond | Leila Templeton | Also known as Should a Wife Forgive? (USA) |
A Misfit Earl | Phyllis Burton | ||
Speedy Meade | Alice Hall | ||
The End of the Road | Mary Lee | ||
1918 | The Spirit of the Red Cross | Ethel | |
Adam and Some Eves | |||
The Man-Eater | Credited as Peggy Adams | ||
1917 | Nutty Knitters | ||
Faint Heart and Fair Lady | |||
Your Obedient Servant | |||
Chris and His Wonderful Lamp | Betty | ||
1913 | The Widow's Suitors | Credited as Clara Adams | |
Boy Wanted | As Clara Adams | ||
A Shower of Slippers | As Clara Adams | ||
Aunt Elsa's Visit | As Clara Adams | ||
The Office Boy's Birthday | As Clara Adams | ||
Bragg's New Suit | As Clara Adams | ||
1912 | Kitty at Boarding School | ||
Revenge Is Sweet | As Clara Adams | ||
The Artist's Joke | As Clara Adams | ||
An Intelligent Camera | |||
Apple Pies | As Clara Adams | ||
Kitty's Holdup | |||
Eddie's Exploit | As Clara Adams | ||
Curing the Office Boy | As Clara Adams | ||
A Heroic Rescue | As Clara Adams |
References
[edit]- ^ "Actress Plays Reuniting Role". Oakland Tribune. California, Oakland. 7 July 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 3 September 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Among the Movie Stars". The Salina Evening Journal. Kansas, Salina. 25 December 1920. p. 14. Retrieved 3 September 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McCallum, Bonnie (1978). ales Untold: Memoirs of an ABC Publicity Officer. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press. p. 32.
- ^ Maxwell, Virginia. "Mackinnon, Donald John Scobie (1906–1974)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ Katchmer, George A. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. p. 2. ISBN 9781476609058. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ Souls for Sables Cast Information
- ^ Black Beauty (II) produced by Eskay Harris Feature Film Company..retrieved 16 June 2018
- Photoplay Dec,1924
- Film Index, No 3, 1970, p. 12
- Social History Report on Morramong, Skipton by D. Hellier (1989). National Trust of Australia, Victoria branch.
External links
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Archival collections
[edit]- Guide to the Claire Adams Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Other
[edit]Categories:
- 1896 births
- 1978 deaths
- Canadian silent film actresses
- Canadian women nurses
- Actresses from Winnipeg
- 20th-century Canadian actresses
- Canadian film actresses
- 20th-century Canadian philanthropists
- 20th-century Australian women
- Canadian emigrants
- Canadian expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom
- Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States
- Immigrants to Australia
- Canadian nurses