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