Acting
106
Woman
16 Feb 1900
30 Nov 1998 (98)
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Ruth Clifford
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".
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1998 | Mickey's Family Album | Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) |
1993 | The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors | Herself |
1968 | Funny Girl | Maid (uncredited) |
1961 | Two Rode Together | Woman (uncredited) |
1960 | Sergeant Rutledge | Officer's Wife (uncredited) |
1958 | The Last Hurrah | Nurse (uncredited) |
1957 | Designing Woman | Vanessa Cole |
1956 | The Searchers | Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited) |
1955 | The Cobweb | Mrs. Jenkins |
1952 | The Quiet Man | Mother (uncredited) |
1952 | Pluto's Christmas Tree | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) |
1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited) |
1950 | Wagon Master | Fleuretty Phyffe |
1950 | Whirlpool | Nurse Eliott (uncredited) |
1950 | Key to the City | Mrs. Anderson (uncredited) |
1949 | Pluto's Sweater | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) |
1949 | Not Wanted | Mrs. Stone |
1949 | You're My Everything | Nurse (uncredited) |
1949 | Free For All | Miss Berry (uncredited) |
1949 | Father Was a Fullback | Neighbor |
1948 | 3 Godfathers | Woman in Bar (uncredited) |
1948 | Cry of the City | Nurse |
1948 | Donald's Dream Voice | Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited) |
1948 | The Luck of the Irish | Secretary |
1948 | Hazard | Waitress (uncredited) |
1947 | Mickey's Delayed Date | Minnie Mouse |
1947 | Figaro and Frankie | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) |
1947 | Mother Wore Tights | Resort Guest (uncredited) |
1946 | My Darling Clementine | Opera House Patron (uncredited) |
1946 | Shock | Mrs. Margaret Cross |
1946 | Bath Day | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) |
1945 | Leave Her to Heaven | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
1945 | The Spider | Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant |
1945 | Circumstantial Evidence | Bridge Player (uncredited) |
1944 | The Lodger | Hairdresser (uncredited) |
1944 | The Keys of the Kingdom | Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited) |
1944 | First Aiders | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) |
1943 | Coney Island | Saloon Patron |
1942 | Holiday Inn | Guest at Inn (uncredited) |
1942 | Blue, White, and Perfect | Ship's Passenger (uncredited) |
1942 | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Graduation Spectator (uncredited) |
1942 | It Happened in Flatbush | Ruth (uncredited) |
1941 | Ball of Fire | Chorus Girl (uncredited) |
1941 | Road to Happiness | Ship Passenger (uncredited) |
1941 | Along the Rio Grande | Paula |
1941 | Mr. Celebrity | Woman In Convertible |
1941 | Cadet Girl | Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) |
1940 | Lillian Russell | Extra |
1940 | The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Mrs. Finney |
1940 | Free, Blonde and 21 | Nurse |
1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk | Pioneer Woman (uncredited) |
1939 | Wife, Husband and Friend | Seamstress |
1939 | Swanee River | Bit Role |
1938 | Charlie Chan in Honolulu | Nurse |
1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
1938 | Safety in Numbers | Mrs. Hensley |
1936 | To Mary - with Love | Nurse |
1936 | Hollywood Boulevard | Nurse (uncredited) |
1936 | Paddy O'Day | Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger |
1935 | Stolen Harmony | Nurse (uncredited) |
1935 | She Married Her Boss | Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited) |
1934 | Woman Unafraid | Kate |
1934 | Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen | Friend of Miss Fane |
1934 | Making the Rounds | |
1933 | Pilgrimage | |
1933 | Only Yesterday | Eleanor (Uncredited) |
1933 | The Constant Woman | Speakeasy Floozie |
1933 | Face in the Sky | Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited) |
1933 | The Hitchhiker | Adolph's Wife |
1929 | Show of Shows | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) |
1929 | The Devil's Apple Tree | Jane Morris |
1929 | The Eternal Woman | Doris Forbes |
1927 | The Thrill Seekers | Adrean Wainwright |
1927 | Don Mike | Mary Kelsey |
1926 | Brooding Eyes | Joan Ayre |
1925 | The Phantom of the Opera | Ballerina (uncredited) |
1925 | As Man Desires | Gloria Gordon |
1925 | The Tornado | Ruth Travers |
1924 | The Whispered Name | Anne Gray |
1924 | The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln | Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart |
1924 | Butterfly | Hilary Collier |
1923 | The Face on the Barroom Floor | Marion Trevor |
1923 | Ponjola | Gay Lypiatt |
1923 | Hell's Hole | Dorothy Owen |
1923 | The Dangerous Age | Gloria Sanderson |
1923 | April Showers | Miriam Welton |
1922 | My Dad | Dawn |
1921 | Tropical Love | Rosario |
1920 | The Invisible Ray | Mystery |
1919 | The Game's Up | Ruth Elliott |
1919 | The Millionaire Pirate | The Girl |
1918 | Fires of Youth | Lucille Linforth |
1918 | Midnight Madness | Gertrude Temple |
1918 | The Cabaret Girl | Ann Reid |
1918 | Hands Down | Hilda Stuyvesant |
1918 | The Lure of Luxury | Dale Aldis |
1918 | Hungry Eyes | Mary Jane Appleton |
1917 | The Desire of the Moth | Stella Vorhis |
1917 | The Door Between | Heloise Crocker |
1917 | The Savage | Marie Louise |
1917 | A Kentucky Cinderella | Nannie |
1917 | The Mysterious Mr. Tiller | Clara Hawthorne |
1917 | Mother o' Mine | Catherine Thurston |
1917 | Eternal Love | Mignon |
1917 | Polly Put the Kettle On | Polly Vance |
1916 | Behind the Lines | Camilla |