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