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