Biography
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,...
Known For
Complete Filmography

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....

Breaking Home Ties
1987
as Grace Porter
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the ...

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...

Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Charlotte
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But so...

The Cape Town Affair
1967
as Sam Williams
South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film...

How to Murder Your Wife
1965
as Edna
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse...

The Stripper
1963
as Helen Baird
An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a ...

Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
as Clara Kruger
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and profess...

Marjorie Morningstar
1958
as Rose Morgenstern
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at...

The Mountain
1956
as Marie
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash ...

Lucy Gallant
1955
as Lady MacBeth
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Man Without a Star
1955
as Idonee
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

The High and the Mighty
1954
as May Holst
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...

The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953
as Josie Sullivan
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs int...

Stop, You're Killing Me
1952
as Nora Marko
With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

My Man and I
1952
as Mrs. Elena Ames
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad ...

Hoodlum Empire
1952
as Connie Williams
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne...

Best of the Badmen
1951
as Lily
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegi...

Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951
as Millie Farley
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis pr...

Borderline
1950
as Madeleine Haley
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many ...

The Lucky Stiff
1949
as Marguerite Seaton
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

The Babe Ruth Story
1948
as Claire Hodgson Ruth
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Key Largo
1948
as Gaye Dawn
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and ...

The Velvet Touch
1948
as Marian Webster
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Raw Deal
1948
as Pat Cameron
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pu...

Born to Kill
1947
as Helen Brent
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Crack-Up
1946
as Terry Cordell
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

The Bachelor's Daughters
1946
as Cynthia Davis
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rente...

Johnny Angel
1945
as Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

Murder, My Sweet
1944
as Helen Grayle
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

The Woman of the Town
1943
as Dora Hand
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...

Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943
as Ruth Jones
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

The Desperadoes
1943
as Countess Maletta
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and wh...

Street of Chance
1942
as Ruth Dillon
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he...

Crossroads
1942
as Michelle Allaine
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
as Connie Dawson
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

Texas
1941
as Michael 'Mike' King
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the ...

Honky Tonk
1941
as "Gold Dust" Nelson
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...

Dark Command
1940
as Miss Mary McCloud
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba...

Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Janie MacDougall
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l...

I Stole a Million
1939
as Laura Benson
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Stagecoach
1939
as Dallas
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc...

Five of a Kind
1938
as Christine Nelson
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Valley of the Giants
1938
as Lee Roberts
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Jo Keller
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed...

Walking Down Broadway
1938
as Joan Bradley
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...

Big Town Girl
1937
as Fay Loring
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a cro...

Second Honeymoon
1937
as Marcia
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys...

Dead End
1937
as Francey
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...

One Mile from Heaven
1937
as Lucy 'Tex' Warren
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

King of Gamblers
1937
as Dixie Moore
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...

Time Out for Romance
1937
as Barbara Blanchard
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Career Woman
1936
as Carroll Aiken
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accus...

15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Jane Martin
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Star for a Night
1936
as Nina Lind
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being ...

To Mary - with Love
1936
as Kitty Brant
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...

Human Cargo
1936
as Bonnie Brewster
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to...

Song and Dance Man
1936
as Julia Carroll
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

My Marriage
1936
as Carol Barton
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his...

Navy Wife
1935
as Vicky Blake
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Dante's Inferno
1935
as Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

Black Sheep
1935
as Janette Foster
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his...

Spring Tonic
1935
as Betty Ingals
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Elinor Norton
1934
as Elinor Norton
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her hus...

Baby Take a Bow
1934
as Kay Ellison
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convi...

Wild Gold
1934
as Jerry Jordan
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevad...

Hold That Girl
1934
as Tonie Bellamy
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses a...

Jimmy and Sally
1933
as Sally Johnson
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart S...

The Mad Game
1933
as Jane Lee
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the jud...

The Last Trail
1933
as Patricia Carter
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad...

Life in the Raw
1933
as Judy Halloway
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.