Claire Malis

{{short description|American actress (1943–2012)}}

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| name = Claire Malis

| image = Claire Malis.png

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| birthname =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|2|17|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Gary, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|8|24|1943|2|17|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Duarte, California, U.S.

| othername = Claire Malis Callaway

| occupation = Actress

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| spouse = Thomas Callaway; (her death) 1 child}}

Claire Malis (February 17, 1943 – August 24, 2012){{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/claire-malis-callaway-facts-of-life-369702|title=Actress Claire Malis Callaway Dies at 69|author=Mike Barnes|date=2012-09-11|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=13 September 2012}} was an American actress. In later years she was often credited as Claire Malis Callaway.

Malis was perhaps best known as the second actress to play Dr. Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1977 to 1979.{{cite book |last=Schemering |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Schemering |chapter=One Life to Live|title=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia |date=September 1985 |pages=158–166 |isbn=978-0-345-32459-7|title-link=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Schemering book) |publisher=Ballantine Books |edition=1st }}{{cite book|last=Waggett|first=Gerard J.|title=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia|publisher=Harper Paperbacks|date=November 1997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/soapoperaencyclo00wagg/page/163 163–188]|chapter=One Life to Live|isbn=978-0-06-101157-3|title-link=The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (Waggett book)}} She appeared in the 1980 television series From Here to Eternity as Dr. Anne Brewster. The 13-episode series continued the story of the 1979 miniseries of the same name. Malis went on to guest star on numerous drama and comedy TV series and multiple films. Between 1983 and 1988 Malis portrayed Rose Polniaczek, mother of series regular Jo, in six episodes of the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.