Claire Adams was born in Winnipeg, Canada (her brother was prolific
screenwriter Gerald Drayson Adams),
and after her education in that country she was sent to a private
school in England, where she studied drama. At the outbreak of World
War I, however, she joined the nursing corps and spent the war years as
a nurse. At war's end she returned to Canada, but soon left for
California to break into films. She made quite a few pictures for
producer Benjamin B. Hampton, whom
she later married. She had a long career in silents, appearing with
such major stars as John Gilbert,
Tom Mix and
Lon Chaney, but when sound came along she
made one picture in 1934,
What a Mother-in-Law! (1934),
and then retired (Hampton had died in 1932).
She died in Melbourne, Australia, on September 25, 1978.
