Name
Ruth Clifford
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1900-02-16
Deathday
1998-11-30 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916).
By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts.
She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck.
Clifford's obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she "became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era".
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- 1941 Mr. Celebrity as Woman In Convertible
- 1925 As Man Desires as Gloria Gordon
- 1920 The Invisible Ray as Mystery
- 1929 The Devil's Apple Tree as Jane Morris
- 1950 Wagon Master as Fleuretty Phyffe
- 1952 Pluto's Christmas Tree as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942 Holiday Inn as Guest at Inn (uncredited)
- 1947 Mickey's Delayed Date as Minnie Mouse (voice)
- 1944 First Aiders as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1923 Hell's Hole as Dorothy Owen
- 1948 Donald's Dream Voice as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
- 1949 You're My Everything as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1955 The Cobweb as Mrs. Jenkins
- 1947 Mother Wore Tights as Resort Guest (uncredited)
- 1944 The Keys of the Kingdom as Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
- 1946 Bath Day as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1918 Midnight Madness as Gertrude Temple
- 1923 The Face on the Barroom Floor as Marion Trevor
- 1968 Funny Girl as Maid (uncredited)
- 1921 Tropical Love as Rosario
- 1950 Key to the City as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
- 1948 The Luck of the Irish as Secretary
- 1933 The Constant Woman as Speakeasy Floozie
- 1933 The Hitchhiker as Adolph's Wife
- 1934 Woman Unafraid as Kate
- 1922 My Dad as Dawn
- 1936 To Mary - with Love as Nurse
- 1945 Leave Her to Heaven as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1948 Cry of the City as Nurse
- 1949 Father Was a Fullback as Neighbor
- 1935 Stolen Harmony as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1960 Sergeant Rutledge as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- 1936 Paddy O'Day as Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
- 1933 Face in the Sky as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
- 1949 Not Wanted as Mrs. Stone
- 1934 Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Friend of Miss Fane
- 1939 Wife, Husband and Friend as Seamstress
- 1939 Swanee River as Bit Role
- 1941 Along the Rio Grande as Paula
- 1949 Pluto's Sweater as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Mrs. Finney
- 1935 She Married Her Boss as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
- 1993 The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors as Herself
- 1958 The Last Hurrah as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1946 My Darling Clementine as Opera House Patron (uncredited)
- 1949 Free For All as Miss Berry (uncredited)
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1945 Circumstantial Evidence as Bridge Player (uncredited)
- 1942 It Happened in Flatbush as Ruth (uncredited)
- 1942 Blue, White and Perfect as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
- 1952 The Quiet Man as Mother (uncredited)
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1940 Lillian Russell as Extra
- 1948 Hazard as Waitress (uncredited)
- 1961 Two Rode Together as Woman (uncredited)
- 1933 Pilgrimage
- 1940 Free, Blonde and 21 as Nurse
- 1941 Road to Happiness as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- 1948 3 Godfathers as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
- 1944 The Lodger as Hairdresser (uncredited)
- 1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
- 1923 The Dangerous Age as Gloria Sanderson
- 1956 The Searchers as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
- 1926 Brooding Eyes as Joan Ayre
- 1934 Making the Rounds
- 1938 Four Men and a Prayer as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1943 Coney Island as Saloon Patron
- 1938 Safety in Numbers as Mrs. Hensley
- 1918 The Cabaret Girl as Ann Reid
- 1917 The Desire of the Moth as Stella Vorhis
- 1916 Behind the Lines as Camilla
- 1924 The Whispered Name as Anne Gray
- 1917 The Door Between as Heloise Crocker
- 1918 Fires of Youth as Lucille Linforth
- 1917 The Savage as Marie Louise
- 1917 A Kentucky Cinderella as Nannie
- 1924 The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
- 1919 The Game's Up as Ruth Elliott
- 1917 The Mysterious Mr. Tiller as Clara Hawthorne
- 1998 Mickey's Family Album as Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- 1925 The Tornado as Ruth Travers
- 1933 Only Yesterday as Eleanor (Uncredited)
- 1923 April Showers as Miriam Welton
- 1925 The Phantom of the Opera as Ballerina (uncredited)
- 1929 The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
- 1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu as Nurse
- 1945 The Spider as Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
- 1927 The Thrill Seekers as Adrean Wainwright
- 1941 Ball of Fire as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- 1950 Whirlpool as Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
- 1957 Designing Woman as Vanessa Cole
- 1924 Butterfly as Hilary Collier
- 1918 Hands Down as Hilda Stuyvesant
- 1927 Don Mike as Mary Kelsey
- 1917 Mother o' Mine as Catherine Thurston
- 1917 Eternal Love as Mignon
- 1918 The Lure of Luxury as Dale Aldis
- 1939 Drums Along the Mohawk as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- 1918 Hungry Eyes as Mary Jane Appleton
- 1946 Shock as Margaret Cross (uncredited)
- 1941 Cadet Girl as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1947 Figaro and Frankie as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1923 Ponjola as Gay Lypiatt
- 1917 Polly Put the Kettle On as Polly Vance
- 1929 The Eternal Woman as Doris Forbes
- 1919 The Millionaire Pirate as The Girl
- 1934 Stand Up and Cheer! as Secretary
- 1923 Mothers-in-Law as Vianna Courtleigh
- 1935 She Married Her Boss as Shopper
- 1934 Whom the Gods Destroy as Frightened Balkan Passenger
- 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife as Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
- 1935 Let's Live Tonight as American
- 1923 Truxton King as Lorraine
- 1950 Pluto and the Gopher as Minnie Mouse (voice)
- 1925 The Love Hour as Betty Brown
- 1923 Daughters of the Rich as Sally Malakoff
- 1925 Her Husband's Secret as Mrs. Pearce
- 1925 The Storm Breaker as Lysette DeJon
- 1918 The Red, Red Heart as Rhoda Tuttle
- 1918 The Guilt of Silence as Mary
- 1926 Lew Tyler's Wives as Jessie Winkler
- 1934 Elmer and Elsie as Mamie
- 1957 The Wings of Eagles as Tourist (uncredited)
- 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit as Florence (uncredited)
