Birthday
1910/03/08
Day of death
2000/04/08 (90 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Claire Wemlinger, The Queen of Film Noir
Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor received top billing, ahead of John Wayne, for Stagecoach (1939). Trevor's acting career spanned more than seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television,...Read more
(1939) Stagecoach
as Dallas
(1944) Murder, My Sweet
as Helen Grayle
(1948) Key Largo
as Gaye Dawn
(1934) Baby Take a Bow
as Kay Ellison
(1952) Hoodlum Empire
as Connie Williams
(1965) How to Murder Your Wife
as Edna
(1958) Marjorie Morningstar
as Rose Morgenstern
(1946) Crack-Up
as Terry Cordell
(1948) Raw Deal
as Pat Cameron
(1947) Born to Kill
as Helen Brent
(1934) Wild Gold
as Jerry Jordan
(1937) Dead End
as Francey
(1940) Dark Command
as Miss Mary McCloud
(1948) The Velvet Touch
as Marian Webster
(1945) Johnny Angel
as Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson
(1942) Street of Chance
as Ruth Dillon
(1942) Crossroads
as Michelle Allaine
(1955) Man Without a Star
as Idonee
(1953) The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Josie Sullivan
(1967) The Cape Town Affair
as Sam Williams
(1948) The Babe Ruth Story
as Claire Hodgson Ruth
(1939) Allegheny Uprising
as Janie MacDougall
(1962) Two Weeks in Another Town
as Clara Kruger
(1939) I Stole a Million
as Laura Benson
(1950) Borderline
as Madeleine Haley
(1938) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Jo Keller
(1954) The High and the Mighty
as May Holst
(1982) Kiss Me Goodbye
as Charlotte
(1951) Hard, Fast and Beautiful
as Millie Farley
(1941) Texas
as Michael 'Mike' King
(1956) The Mountain
as Marie
(1952) Stop, You're Killing Me
as Nora Marko
(1943) The Desperadoes
as Countess Maletta
(1941) Honky Tonk
as "Gold Dust" Nelson
(1951) Best of the Badmen
as Lily
(1936) Career Woman
as Carroll Aiken
(1955) Lucy Gallant
as Lady MacBeth
(1943) Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Ruth Jones
(1949) The Lucky Stiff
as Marguerite Seaton
(1935) Dante's Inferno
as Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter
(1935) Black Sheep
as Janette Foster
(1937) One Mile from Heaven
as Lucy 'Tex' Warren
(1936) 15 Maiden Lane
as Jane Martin
(1937) Second Honeymoon
as Marcia
(1963) The Stripper
as Helen Baird
(1938) Valley of the Giants
as Lee Roberts
(1935) Spring Tonic
as Betty Ingals
(1938) Five of a Kind
as Christine Nelson
(1946) The Bachelor's Daughters
as Cynthia Davis
(1943) The Woman of the Town
as Dora Hand
(1933) The Mad Game
as Jane Lee
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1952) My Man and I
as Mrs. Elena Ames
(1936) Human Cargo
as Bonnie Brewster
(1936) To Mary - with Love
as Kitty Brant
(1933) Life in the Raw
as Judy Halloway
(1942) The Adventures of Martin Eden
as Connie Dawson
(1936) Song and Dance Man
as Julia Carroll
(1935) Navy Wife
as Vicky Blake
(1937) Time Out for Romance
as Barbara Blanchard
(1937) Big Town Girl
as Fay Loring
(1934) Hold That Girl
as Tonie Bellamy
(1937) King of Gamblers
as Dixie Moore
(2008) You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
(1933) The Last Trail
as Patricia Carter
(1936) Star for a Night
as Nina Lind
(1933) Jimmy and Sally
as Sally Johnson
(1934) Elinor Norton
as Elinor Norton
(1936) My Marriage
as Carol Barton
(1938) Walking Down Broadway
as Joan Bradley
(1954) A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
(1987) Breaking Home Ties
as Grace Porter
(1936) Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as ---
(2009) 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Cora Leslie
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mary Prescott
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Ellen Creed
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mary Hunter
(1954) Climax!
as Phyllis Talbot
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Veronica Johnson
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1957) Wagon Train
as C.L. Harding
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Mary Scott
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Meade
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Judith Harlan
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self