---
name: "Claire Adams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/claire-adams"
fi1m_id: "claire-adams"
imdb_id: "nm0010845"
tmdb_id: 29975
wikidata_id: "Q2975001"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 September 1898"
died: "25 September 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:17:25.487098+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Claire Adams

## Identity

Claire Adams

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/claire-adams
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** claire-adams
- **IMDb ID:** nm0010845
- **TMDB ID:** 29975
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2975001
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Adams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2975001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29975

Actor. Born 24 September 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Died 25 September 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 September 1898, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- **Died:** 25 September 1978
- **Also known as:** Clare Adams , Peggy Adams, Clara Adams, Beryl Vere Nassau Adams
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Adams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2975001, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010845/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29975

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Big Parade*](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md) (80)

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## Biography

Claire Adams (born Beryl Vere Nassau Adams) was a Canadian actress who appeared in silent films. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 24 September 1898 and educated in Canada and England. During the First World War she worked as a nurse with the Red Cross.

In 1920 she signed a contract with Hollywood producer Benjamin B. Hampton, whom she married in 1924. She appeared in more than forty silent films, including *The Penalty* (1920) as Barbara Ferris and *The Big Parade* (1925) as Justyn Reed. She later married Australian Donald John Scobie Mackinnon and lived in Australia until her death on 25 September 1978 in Melbourne.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Parade* (1925), Fi1m 80, as Justyn Reed — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Five Stars* (2009), Actor
- *What a Mother-in-Law!* (1934), as Frances
- *Married Alive* (1927), as Viola Helmesley Duxbury
- *The Sea Wolf* (1926), as Maud Brewster
- *Yellow Fingers* (1926), as Nona Deering
- *The Big Parade* (1925), as Justyn Reed — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)
- *The Kiss Barrier* (1925), as Marion Weston
- *Men and Women* (1925), as Agnes Prescott
- *The Devil's Cargo* (1925), as Martha Joyce
- *Souls for Sables* (1925), as Helen Ralston
- *The Brass Bowl* (1924), as Sylvia
- *The Fast Set* (1924), as Fay Collen
- *The Painted Flapper* (1924), as Eunice Whitney
- *Oh, You Tony!* (1924), as Betty Faine
- *Honor Among Men* (1924), as Patricia Carson
- *The Girl in the Limousine* (1924), as The Girl
- *The Night Hawk* (1924), as Clia Milton
- *Daddies* (1924), as Bobette Audrey
- *The Clean Up* (1923), as Phyllis Andrews
- *Legally Dead* (1923), as Minnie O'Reilly
- *Where the North Begins* (1923), as Felice McTavish
- *Stepping Fast* (1923), as Helen Durant
- *Brass Commandments* (1923), as Ellen Bosworth
- *The Scarlet Car* (1923), as Beatrice Forbes
- *Do and Dare* (1922), as Juanita Sánchez
- *Just Tony* (1922), as Marianne Jordan
- *Heart's Haven* (1922), as Vivian Breed
- *Golden Dreams* (1922), as Mercedes McDonald
- *When Romance Rides* (1922), as Lucy Bostil
- *The Mysterious Rider* (1921), as Columbine
- *The Man Of The Forest* (1921), as Helen Raynor
- *A Certain Rich Man* (1921), as Molly Culpepper
- *The Lure of Egypt* (1921), as Margaret Lampton
- *The Killer* (1921), as Ruth Emory
- *The Great Lover* (1920), as Ethel
- *The Money Changers* (1920), as Lucy Hegan
- *The Dwelling Place of Light* (1920), as Janet Butler
- *The Penalty* (1920), as Barbara Ferris
- *Riders of the Dawn* (1920), as Lenore Anderson
- *The Key to Power* (1920), Actor
- *The Invisible Bond* (1919), as Leila Templeton
- *A Misfit Earl* (1919), as Phyllis Burton
- *Speedy Meade* (1919), as Alice Hall
- *The End of the Road* (1919), as Mary Lee
- *Romance and Brass Tacks* (1918), Actor
- *Your Obedient Servant* (1917), Actor
- *Barnaby Lee* (1917), as Dorothy Van Swringen
- *Chris and His Wonderful Lamp* (1917), as Betty
- *Revenge Is Sweet* (1912), as One of the Office Girls

## Gallery

- ![Film actress Claire Adams. Subjects: actresses (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/3850147/gallery-6c295d5b9421.jpg) Film actress Claire Adams. Subjects: actresses (1922) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Film_actress_Claire_Adams_%28SAYRE_1971%29.jpg/1280px-Film_actress_Claire_Adams_%28SAYRE_1971%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Claire Adams](https://film.one/media/person/3850147/gallery-0db829127a7a.jpg) Claire Adams — Image via TMDB
- ![Claire Adams](https://film.one/media/person/3850147/gallery-8549a633fc11.jpg) Claire Adams — Image via TMDB

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