Claire Windsor

Claire Windsor fascinates me precisely because she belongs to a vanished world. A Kansas girl born Clara Viola Cronk who became a star of the silent screen, she had to move audiences without a single spoken word, carrying entire scenes on her face and posture alone. That's a harder craft than most modern fame demands. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame feels less like a vanity marker and more like a small act of historical memory. I find real romance in performers from that era, and I think it matters that we keep names like hers from quietly fading out.

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Name (English)

Claire Windsor

Name (Japanese)

クレア・ウィンザー

Reading

くれあ・うぃんざー

Born

April 14, 1892 – October 24, 1972

Origin

Cawker City, Kansas, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

High school

Broadway High School

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Windsor
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339669

Tags

• Kansas
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.