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person_profile-Claire Adams

Claire Adams Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Claire Adams

Date of Birth:

Sep 24, 1898

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Sep 25, 1978

Biography of

Claire Adams

    From Wikipedia

    Claire Adams (September 24, 1898 – September 25, 1978) was a Canadian silent film actress and benefactor. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as the daughter of Stanley Wells Adams, a Welsh-born accountant, and his Canadian wife, Lillian Adams (née Kennedy). Educated in Canada and England, Claire Adams worked briefly as a nurse with the Red Cross during World War I.

    In 1920 Adams signed a five-year contract with Benjamin Bowles Hampton, a Hollywood producer and her future husband. She later moved to California where she acted in more than forty silent films, including melodramas, comedies and westerns.

    Described as "patricianly beautiful", Adams worked with many of Hollywood's leading actors, including Adolphe Menjou, Tom Mix, Wallace Beery, and Lon Chaney. In 1923 she was Rin Tin Tin's leading lady in Where the North Begins, which was a huge success and is often credited with saving Warner Bros. from bankruptcy. She later maintained that Rin Tin Tin was her "favourite leading man".

    Her best known film was The Big Parade, the second largest grossing silent film in cinematic history. It was directed by King Vidor and Adams starred alongside John Gilbert. Perhaps her most memorable role came in 1920 as Barbara, the artist who helps humanize the crippled crime boss played by Lon Chaney in The Penalty.

    She married film producer Benjamin B. Hampton in Hollywood on September 18, 1924. They had no children. He died in 1932 leaving her very wealthy. Later that year Adams met Scobie Mackinnon, the second son of L.K.S. Mackinnon, at a party in London and three weeks later they married on April 1 in Mayfair. They remained childless. After a protracted honeymoon, in March 1938, Mackinnon brought Adams to Victoria, Australia.

    On his death in 1974, Scobie Mackinnon's estate was worth A$2,111, 729, which was left entirely to Adams. She died on September 25, 1978, in Windsor, Victoria and was cremated.

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Claire Adams

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Filmography of

Claire Adams

Found 26 Movies in total

Married Alive

Viola Helmesley Duxbury ( Actor )

... 1927

The Big Parade

Justyn Reed ( Actor )

... 1925

Men and Women

Agnes Prescott ( Actor )

... 1925

The Devil's Cargo

Martha Joyce ( Actor )

... 1925

... 1925

The Brass Bowl

Sylvia ( Actor )

... 1924

Oh, You Tony!

Betty Faine ( Actor )

... 1924

Honor Among Men

Patricia Carson ( Actor )

... 1924

... 1924

The Night Hawk

Clia Milton ( Actor )

... 1924

Daddies

Bobette Audrey ( Actor )

... 1924

Where the North Begins

Felice McTavish ( Actor )

... 1923

Stepping Fast

Helen Durant ( Actor )

... 1923

Brass Commandments

Ellen Bosworth ( Actor )

... 1923

Do and Dare

Juanita Sánchez ( Actor )

... 1922

Just Tony

Marianne Jordan ( Actor )

... 1922

Heart's Haven

Vivian Breed ( Actor )

... 1922

Golden Dreams

Mercedes McDonald ( Actor )

... 1922

When Romance Rides

Lucy Bostil ( Actor )

... 1922

The Mysterious Rider

Columbine ( Actor )

... 1921

The Man Of The Forest

Helen Raynor ( Actor )

... 1921

The Killer

Ruth Emory ( Actor )

... 1921

The Great Lover

Ethel ( Actor )

... 1920

The Penalty

Barbara Ferris ( Actor )

... 1920

Riders of the Dawn

Lenore Anderson ( Actor )

... 1920

The End of the Road

Mary Lee ( Actor )

... 1919