Ruth Clifford
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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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Movies (123)
Mickey's Family Album
1998 · Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993 · Herself
Funny Girl
1968 · Maid (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
1961 · Woman (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
1960 · Officer's Wife (uncredited)
The Last Hurrah
1958 · Nurse (uncredited)
Designing Woman
1957 · Vanessa Cole
The Wings of Eagles
1957 · Tourist (uncredited)
The Searchers
1956 · Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956 · Florence (uncredited)
The Cobweb
1955 · Mrs. Jenkins
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952 · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
The Quiet Man
1952 · Mother (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
Wagon Master
1950 · Fleuretty Phyffe
Pluto and the Gopher
1950 · Minnie Mouse (voice)
Key to the City
1950 · Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
Whirlpool
1950 · Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
Free For All
1949 · Miss Berry (uncredited)
Father Was a Fullback
1949 · Neighbor
You're My Everything
1949 · Nurse (uncredited)
Not Wanted
1949 · Mrs. Stone
Pluto's Sweater
1949 · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
1948 · Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Cry of the City
1948 · Nurse
The Luck of the Irish
1948 · Secretary
Hazard
1948 · Waitress (uncredited)
Donald's Dream Voice
1948 · Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Delayed Date
1947 · Minnie Mouse (voice)
Mother Wore Tights
1947 · Resort Guest (uncredited)
Figaro and Frankie
1947 · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
1946 · Opera House Patron (uncredited)
Bath Day
1946 · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Shock
1946 · Margaret Cross (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
The Spider
1945 · Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
Circumstantial Evidence
1945 · Bridge Player (uncredited)
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
First Aiders
1944 · Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
The Lodger
1944 · Hairdresser (uncredited)
Coney Island
1943 · Saloon Patron
Holiday Inn
1942 · Guest at Inn (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942 · Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
It Happened in Flatbush
1942 · Ruth (uncredited)
Blue, White and Perfect
1942 · Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Road to Happiness
1941 · Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Ball of Fire
1941 · Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Cadet Girl
1941 · Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Mr. Celebrity
1941 · Woman In Convertible
Along the Rio Grande
1941 · Paula
Lillian Russell
1940 · Extra
Free, Blonde and 21
1940 · Nurse
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940 · Mrs. Finney
Swanee River
1939 · Bit Role
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 · Seamstress
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938 · Nurse
Safety in Numbers
1938 · Mrs. Hensley
Four Men and a Prayer
1938 · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · Nurse (uncredited)
To Mary - with Love
1936 · Nurse
Paddy O'Day
1936 · Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
She Married Her Boss
1935 · Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited), Shopper
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
Stolen Harmony
1935 · Nurse (uncredited)
Let's Live Tonight
1935 · American
Elmer and Elsie
1934 · Mamie
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934 · Frightened Balkan Passenger
Making the Rounds
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · Secretary
Woman Unafraid
1934 · Kate
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934 · Friend of Miss Fane
Only Yesterday
1933 · Eleanor (Uncredited)
Pilgrimage
1933
The Constant Woman
1933 · Speakeasy Floozie
The Hitchhiker
1933 · Adolph's Wife
Face in the Sky
1933 · Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
The Show of Shows
1929 · Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
The Eternal Woman
1929 · Doris Forbes
The Devil's Apple Tree
1929 · Jane Morris
The Thrill Seekers
1927 · Adrean Wainwright
Don Mike
1927 · Mary Kelsey
Lew Tyler's Wives
1926 · Jessie Winkler
Brooding Eyes
1926 · Joan Ayre
The Storm Breaker
1925 · Lysette DeJon
The Love Hour
1925 · Betty Brown
The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · Ballerina (uncredited)
Her Husband's Secret
1925 · Mrs. Pearce
As Man Desires
1925 · Gloria Gordon
The Tornado
1925 · Ruth Travers
Butterfly
1924 · Hilary Collier
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924 · Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
The Whispered Name
1924 · Anne Gray
Ponjola
1923 · Gay Lypiatt
April Showers
1923 · Miriam Welton
Hell's Hole
1923 · Dorothy Owen
Mothers-in-Law
1923 · Vianna Courtleigh
Daughters of the Rich
1923 · Sally Malakoff
Truxton King
1923 · Lorraine
The Dangerous Age
1923 · Gloria Sanderson
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923 · Marion Trevor
My Dad
1922 · Dawn
Tropical Love
1921 · Rosario
The Invisible Ray
1920 · Mystery
The Millionaire Pirate
1919 · The Girl
The Game's Up
1919 · Ruth Elliott
The Cabaret Girl
1918 · Ann Reid
The Lure of Luxury
1918 · Dale Aldis
Fires of Youth
1918 · Lucille Linforth
Midnight Madness
1918 · Gertrude Temple
The Guilt of Silence
1918 · Mary
The Red, Red Heart
1918 · Rhoda Tuttle
Hungry Eyes
1918 · Mary Jane Appleton
Hands Down
1918 · Hilda Stuyvesant
The Door Between
1917 · Heloise Crocker
The Savage
1917 · Marie Louise
The Desire of the Moth
1917 · Stella Vorhis
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917 · Clara Hawthorne
Mother o' Mine
1917 · Catherine Thurston
A Kentucky Cinderella
1917 · Nannie
Eternal Love
1917 · Mignon
Polly Put the Kettle On
1917 · Polly Vance
Behind the Lines
1916 · Camilla
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