Ruth Clifford
- Acting
- February 16, 1900 · Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
- November 30, 1998
Biography
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
Filmography
- Mickey's Family Album · Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors · Self
- Funny Girl · Maid (uncredited)
- Two Rode Together · Woman (uncredited)
- Sergeant Rutledge · Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- The Last Hurrah · Nurse (uncredited)
- Designing Woman · Vanessa Cole
- The Wings of Eagles · Tourist (uncredited)
- The Searchers · Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit · Florence (uncredited)
- The Cobweb · Mrs. Jenkins
- Pluto's Christmas Tree · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- The Quiet Man · Mother (uncredited)
- Sunset Boulevard · Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
- Wagon Master · Fleuretty Phyffe
- Pluto and the Gopher · Minnie Mouse (Voice)
- Key to the City · Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
- Whirlpool · Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
- Free For All · Miss Berry (uncredited)
- Father Was a Fullback · Neighbor
- You're My Everything · Nurse (uncredited)
- Not Wanted · Mrs. Stone
- Pluto's Sweater · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 3 Godfathers · Woman in Bar (uncredited)
- Cry of the City · Nurse
- The Luck of the Irish · Secretary
- Hazard · Waitress (uncredited)
- Donald's Dream Voice · Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
- Mickey's Delayed Date · Minnie Mouse (Voice)
- Mother Wore Tights · Resort Guest (uncredited)
- Figaro and Frankie · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- My Darling Clementine · Opera House Patron (uncredited)
- Bath Day · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- Shock · Margaret Cross (uncredited)
- Leave Her to Heaven · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- The Spider · Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
- Circumstantial Evidence · Bridge Player (uncredited)
- The Keys of the Kingdom · Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
- First Aiders · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lodger · Hairdresser (uncredited)
- Coney Island · Saloon Patron
- Holiday Inn · Guest at Inn (uncredited)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point · Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
- It Happened in Flatbush · Ruth (uncredited)
- Blue, White and Perfect · Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
- Road to Happiness · Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- Ball of Fire · Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- Cadet Girl · Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- Mr. Celebrity · Woman In Convertible
- Along the Rio Grande · Paula
- Lillian Russell · Extra
- Free, Blonde and 21 · Nurse
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk · Mrs. Finney
- Swanee River · Bit Role
- Drums Along the Mohawk · Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- Wife, Husband and Friend · Seamstress
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu · Nurse
- Safety in Numbers · Mrs. Hensley
- Four Men and a Prayer · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard · Nurse (uncredited)
- To Mary - with Love · Nurse
- Paddy O'Day · Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
- She Married Her Boss · Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited), Shopper
- The Farmer Takes a Wife · Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
- Stolen Harmony · Nurse (uncredited)
- Let's Live Tonight · American
- Elmer and Elsie · Mamie
- Whom the Gods Destroy · Frightened Balkan Passenger
- Making the Rounds
- Stand Up and Cheer! · Secretary
- Woman Unafraid · Kate
- Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen · Friend of Miss Fane
- Only Yesterday · Eleanor (Uncredited)
- Pilgrimage
- The Constant Woman · Speakeasy Floozie
- The Hitchhiker · Adolph's Wife
- Face in the Sky · Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
- The Show of Shows · Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
- The Eternal Woman · Doris Forbes
- The Devil's Apple Tree · Jane Morris