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