Ruth Clifford
Acting
Born February 16, 1900 · Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
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".
Films (121)
Mickey's Family Album
1998
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993
Funny Girl
1968
Two Rode Together
1961
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
The Last Hurrah
1958
Designing Woman
1957
The Searchers
1956
The Cobweb
1955
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
The Quiet Man
1952
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Wagon Master
1950
Pluto and the Gopher
1950
Key to the City
1950
Whirlpool
1950
Free For All
1949
Father Was a Fullback
1949
You're My Everything
1949
Not Wanted
1949
Pluto's Sweater
1949
3 Godfathers
1948
Cry of the City
1948
The Luck of the Irish
1948
Hazard
1948
Donald's Dream Voice
1948
Mickey's Delayed Date
1947
Mother Wore Tights
1947
Figaro and Frankie
1947
My Darling Clementine
1946
Bath Day
1946
Shock
1946
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
The Spider
1945
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
First Aiders
1944
The Lodger
1944
Coney Island
1943
Holiday Inn
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
Road to Happiness
1941
Ball of Fire
1941
Cadet Girl
1941
Mr. Celebrity
1941
Along the Rio Grande
1941
Lillian Russell
1940
Free, Blonde and 21
1940
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
Swanee River
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938
Safety in Numbers
1938
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
To Mary - with Love
1936
Paddy O'Day
1936
She Married Her Boss
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Stolen Harmony
1935
Let's Live Tonight
1935
Elmer and Elsie
1934
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
Making the Rounds
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
Woman Unafraid
1934
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
Only Yesterday
1933
Pilgrimage
1933
The Constant Woman
1933
The Hitchhiker
1933
Face in the Sky
1933
The Show of Shows
1929
The Eternal Woman
1929
The Devil's Apple Tree
1929
The Thrill Seekers
1927
Don Mike
1927
Lew Tyler's Wives
1926
Brooding Eyes
1926
The Storm Breaker
1925
The Love Hour
1925
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
Her Husband's Secret
1925
As Man Desires
1925
The Tornado
1925
Butterfly
1924
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924
The Whispered Name
1924
Ponjola
1923
April Showers
1923
Hell's Hole
1923
Mothers-in-Law
1923
Daughters of the Rich
1923
Truxton King
1923
The Dangerous Age
1923
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923
My Dad
1922
Tropical Love
1921
The Invisible Ray
1920
The Millionaire Pirate
1919
The Game's Up
1919
The Cabaret Girl
1918
The Lure of Luxury
1918
Fires of Youth
1918
Midnight Madness
1918
The Guilt of Silence
1918
The Red, Red Heart
1918
Hungry Eyes
1918
Hands Down
1918
The Door Between
1917
The Savage
1917
The Desire of the Moth
1917
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917
Mother o' Mine
1917
A Kentucky Cinderella
1917
Eternal Love
1917
Polly Put the Kettle On
1917
Behind the Lines
1916