Ruth Clifford
122 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 16, 1900
- Died
- Nov 30, 1998 (age 98)
- Place of birth
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
- Also known as
- Ruth Clifford Cornelius · Ruth Cornelius
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).
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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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Known for
Ruth Clifford: movies and TV shows
Acting (122)
- 1998 Mickey's Family Album
as Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- 1968 Funny Girl
as Maid (uncredited)
- 1961 Two Rode Together
as Woman (uncredited)
- 1960 Sergeant Rutledge
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
- 1958 The Last Hurrah
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1957 Designing Woman
as Vanessa Cole
- 1957 The Wings of Eagles
as Tourist (uncredited)
- 1956 The Searchers
as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
- 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Florence (uncredited)
- 1955 The Cobweb
as Mrs. Jenkins
- 1952 Pluto's Christmas Tree
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1952 The Quiet Man
as Mother (uncredited)
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard
as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1950 Wagon Master
as Fleuretty Phyffe
- 1950 Pluto and the Gopher
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
- 1950 Key to the City
as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
- 1950 Whirlpool
as Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
- 1949 Free For All
as Miss Berry (uncredited)
- 1949 Father Was a Fullback
as Neighbor
- 1949 You're My Everything
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1949 Not Wanted
as Mrs. Stone
- 1949 Pluto's Sweater
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1948 3 Godfathers
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
- 1948 Cry of the City
as Nurse
- 1948 The Luck of the Irish
as Secretary
- 1948 Hazard
as Waitress (uncredited)
- 1948 Donald's Dream Voice
as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947 Mickey's Delayed Date
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
- 1947 Mother Wore Tights
as Resort Guest (uncredited)
- 1947 Figaro and Frankie
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946 My Darling Clementine
as Opera House Patron (uncredited)
- 1946 Bath Day
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1946 Shock
as Margaret Cross (uncredited)
- 1945 Leave Her to Heaven
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1945 The Spider
as Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
- 1945 Circumstantial Evidence
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
- 1944 The Keys of the Kingdom
as Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
- 1944 First Aiders
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944 The Lodger
as Hairdresser (uncredited)
- 1943 Coney Island
as Saloon Patron
- 1942 Holiday Inn
as Guest at Inn (uncredited)
- 1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
- 1942 It Happened in Flatbush
as Ruth (uncredited)
- 1942 Blue, White and Perfect
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
- 1941 Road to Happiness
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- 1941 Ball of Fire
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- 1941 Cadet Girl
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1941 Mr. Celebrity
as Woman In Convertible
- 1941 Along the Rio Grande
as Paula
- 1940 Lillian Russell
as Extra
- 1940 Free, Blonde and 21
as Nurse
- 1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Mrs. Finney
- 1939 Swanee River
as Bit Role
- 1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- 1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
as Seamstress
- 1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Nurse
- 1938 Safety in Numbers
as Mrs. Hensley
- 1938 Four Men and a Prayer
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1936 To Mary - with Love
as Nurse
- 1936 Paddy O'Day
as Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
- 1935 She Married Her Boss
as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited) / Shopper
- 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
- 1935 Stolen Harmony
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1935 Let's Live Tonight
as American
- 1934 Elmer and Elsie
as Mamie
- 1934 Whom the Gods Destroy
as Frightened Balkan Passenger
- 1934
- 1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
as Secretary
- 1934 Woman Unafraid
as Kate
- 1934 Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Friend of Miss Fane
- 1933 Only Yesterday
as Eleanor (Uncredited)
- 1933
- 1933 The Constant Woman
as Speakeasy Floozie
- 1933 The Hitchhiker
as Adolph's Wife
- 1933 Face in the Sky
as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
- 1929 The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
- 1929 The Eternal Woman
as Doris Forbes
- 1929 The Devil's Apple Tree
as Jane Morris
- 1927 The Thrill Seekers
as Adrean Wainwright
- 1927 Don Mike
as Mary Kelsey
- 1926 Lew Tyler's Wives
as Jessie Winkler
- 1926 Brooding Eyes
as Joan Ayre
- 1925 The Storm Breaker
as Lysette DeJon
- 1925 The Love Hour
as Betty Brown
- 1925 The Phantom of the Opera
as Ballerina (uncredited)
- 1925 Her Husband's Secret
as Mrs. Pearce
- 1925 As Man Desires
as Gloria Gordon
- 1925 The Tornado
as Ruth Travers
- 1924 Butterfly
as Hilary Collier
- 1924 The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
- 1924 The Whispered Name
as Anne Gray
- 1923 Ponjola
as Gay Lypiatt
- 1923 April Showers
as Miriam Welton
- 1923 Hell's Hole
as Dorothy Owen
- 1923 Mothers-in-Law
as Vianna Courtleigh
- 1923 Daughters of the Rich
as Sally Malakoff
- 1923 Truxton King
as Lorraine
- 1923 The Dangerous Age
as Gloria Sanderson
- 1923 The Face on the Barroom Floor
as Marion Trevor
- 1922 My Dad
as Dawn
- 1921 Tropical Love
as Rosario
- 1920 The Invisible Ray
as Mystery
- 1919 The Millionaire Pirate
as The Girl
- 1919 The Game's Up
as Ruth Elliott
- 1918 The Cabaret Girl
as Ann Reid
- 1918 The Lure of Luxury
as Dale Aldis
- 1918 Fires of Youth
as Lucille Linforth
- 1918 Midnight Madness
as Gertrude Temple
- 1918 The Guilt of Silence
as Mary
- 1918 The Red, Red Heart
as Rhoda Tuttle
- 1918 Hungry Eyes
as Mary Jane Appleton
- 1918 Hands Down
as Hilda Stuyvesant
- 1917 The Door Between
as Heloise Crocker
- 1917 The Savage
as Marie Louise
- 1917 The Desire of the Moth
as Stella Vorhis
- 1917 The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Clara Hawthorne
- 1917 Mother o' Mine
as Catherine Thurston
- 1917 A Kentucky Cinderella
as Nannie
- 1917 Eternal Love
as Mignon
- 1917 Polly Put the Kettle On
as Polly Vance
- 1916 Behind the Lines
as Camilla
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1993