Claire Trevor actress
- All known tv series 13
- Total known movies 74
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).Trevors acting career spanned more than seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television, and film. She often played the hard-boiled blonde, and every conceivable type of bad girl role.She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She subsequently returned to New York, where she appeared in a number of Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone short films and performed in summer stock theatre. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in Whistling in the Dark.Trevor made her film debut in Jimmy and Sally (1933). From 1933 to 1938, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the second lead actress (after top-billed Sylvia Sidney) in Dead End, with Humphrey Bogart, which led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series Big Town, while continuing to make movies. In the early 1940s, she also was a regular on The Old Gold Don Ameche Show on the NBC Red Radio Network, starring with Ameche in presentations of plays by Mark Hellinger. In 1939, she was well established as a solid leading lady. One of her more memorable performances during this period includes the Western Stagecoach (1939).Two of Trevors most memorable roles were opposite Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944) and with Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill (1947). In Key Largo (1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, a washed-up, alcoholic nightclub singer and gangsters moll. For that role, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954). In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role in the Producers Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth. Trevor moved into supporting roles in the 1950s, with her appearances becoming very rare after the mid-1960s. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). Her final television role was for the 1987 television film, Norman Rockwells Breaking Home Ties. Trevor made a guest appearance at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Dallas
Movie 1939
Helen Grayle
Movie 1944
Gaye Dawn
Movie 1948
Kay Ellison
Movie 1934
Edna
Movie 1965
Terry Cordell
Movie 1946
Helen Brent
Movie 1947
Jerry Jordan
Movie 1934
Miss Mary McCloud
Movie 1940
Marian Webster
Movie 1948
Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson
Movie 1945
Ruth Dillon
Movie 1942
Michelle Allaine
Movie 1942
Idonee
Movie 1955
Josie Sullivan
Movie 1953
Sam Williams
Movie 1967
Claire Hodgson Ruth
Movie 1948
Clara Kruger
Movie 1962
Laura Benson
Movie 1939
Madeleine Haley
Movie 1950
Millie Farley
Movie 1951
Marie
Movie 1956
Lily
Movie 1951
Carroll Aiken
Movie 1936
Ruth Jones
Movie 1943
Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter
Movie 1935
Janette Foster
Movie 1935
Lucy 'Tex' Warren
Movie 1937
Jane Martin
Movie 1936
Helen Baird
Movie 1963
Betty Ingals
Movie 1935
Christine Nelson
Movie 1938
Cynthia Davis
Movie 1946
Jane Lee
Movie 1933
(archive footage)
Movie 1984
Mrs. Elena Ames
Movie 1952
Bonnie Brewster
Movie 1936
Judy Halloway
Movie 1933
Julia Carroll
Movie 1936
Vicky Blake
Movie 1935
Barbara Blanchard
Movie 1937
Fay Loring
Movie 1937
Tonie Bellamy
Movie 1934
Dixie Moore
Movie 1937
Self
Movie 2008
Patricia Carter
Movie 1933
Nina Lind
Movie 1936
Sally Johnson
Movie 1933
Elinor Norton
Movie 1934
Carol Barton
Movie 1936
Joan Bradley
Movie 1938
Self
Movie 1954
Grace Porter
Movie 1987
Movie 1936
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2009
Cora Leslie
Tv 1953
Tv 1958
Ellen Creed
Tv 1950
Phyllis Talbot
Tv 1954
Nurse Veronica Johnson
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1953
C.L. Harding
Tv 1957
Mary Scott
Tv 1950
Judith Harlan
Tv 1984
Self
Tv 1962
