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