Ruth Clifford
Acting • Born 1900-02-16 – Died 1998-11-30
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".
Filmography
121 credits
Mr. Celebrity
Movie • 1941
Woman In Convertible
As Man Desires
Movie • 1925
Gloria Gordon
The Invisible Ray
Movie • 1920
Mystery
The Devil's Apple Tree
Movie • 1929
Jane Morris
Wagon Master
Movie • 1950
Fleuretty Phyffe
Pluto's Christmas Tree
Movie • 1952
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Holiday Inn
Movie • 1942
Guest at Inn (uncredited)
Mickey's Delayed Date
Movie • 1947
Minnie Mouse (voice)
First Aiders
Movie • 1944
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Hell's Hole
Movie • 1923
Dorothy Owen
Donald's Dream Voice
Movie • 1948
Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
You're My Everything
Movie • 1949
Nurse (uncredited)
The Cobweb
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Jenkins
Mother Wore Tights
Movie • 1947
Resort Guest (uncredited)
The Keys of the Kingdom
Movie • 1944
Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
Bath Day
Movie • 1946
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Midnight Madness
Movie • 1918
Gertrude Temple
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Movie • 1923
Marion Trevor
Funny Girl
Movie • 1968
Maid (uncredited)
Tropical Love
Movie • 1921
Rosario
Key to the City
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
The Luck of the Irish
Movie • 1948
Secretary
The Constant Woman
Movie • 1933
Speakeasy Floozie
The Hitchhiker
Movie • 1933
Adolph's Wife
Woman Unafraid
Movie • 1934
Kate
My Dad
Movie • 1922
Dawn
To Mary - with Love
Movie • 1936
Nurse
Leave Her to Heaven
Movie • 1945
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Cry of the City
Movie • 1948
Nurse
Father Was a Fullback
Movie • 1949
Neighbor
Stolen Harmony
Movie • 1935
Nurse (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
Movie • 1960
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Paddy O'Day
Movie • 1936
Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
Face in the Sky
Movie • 1933
Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
Not Wanted
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Stone
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Movie • 1934
Friend of Miss Fane
Wife, Husband and Friend
Movie • 1939
Seamstress
Swanee River
Movie • 1939
Bit Role
Along the Rio Grande
Movie • 1941
Paula
Pluto's Sweater
Movie • 1949
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Finney
She Married Her Boss
Movie • 1935
Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Movie • 1993
Herself
The Last Hurrah
Movie • 1958
Nurse (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Movie • 1946
Opera House Patron (uncredited)
Free For All
Movie • 1949
Miss Berry (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Nurse (uncredited)
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Bridge Player (uncredited)
It Happened in Flatbush
Movie • 1942
Ruth (uncredited)
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
The Quiet Man
Movie • 1952
Mother (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
Movie • 1950
Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
Lillian Russell
Movie • 1940
Extra
Hazard
Movie • 1948
Waitress (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Movie • 1961
Woman (uncredited)
Pilgrimage
Movie • 1933
Free, Blonde and 21
Movie • 1940
Nurse
Road to Happiness
Movie • 1941
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
Movie • 1948
Woman in Bar (uncredited)
The Lodger
Movie • 1944
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie • 1942
Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
The Dangerous Age
Movie • 1923
Gloria Sanderson
The Searchers
Movie • 1956
Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
Brooding Eyes
Movie • 1926
Joan Ayre
Making the Rounds
Movie • 1934
Four Men and a Prayer
Movie • 1938
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Coney Island
Movie • 1943
Saloon Patron
Safety in Numbers
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Hensley
The Cabaret Girl
Movie • 1918
Ann Reid
The Desire of the Moth
Movie • 1917
Stella Vorhis
Behind the Lines
Movie • 1916
Camilla
The Whispered Name
Movie • 1924
Anne Gray
The Door Between
Movie • 1917
Heloise Crocker
Fires of Youth
Movie • 1918
Lucille Linforth
The Savage
Movie • 1917
Marie Louise
A Kentucky Cinderella
Movie • 1917
Nannie
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Movie • 1924
Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
The Game's Up
Movie • 1919
Ruth Elliott
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Movie • 1917
Clara Hawthorne
Mickey's Family Album
Movie • 1998
Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Tornado
Movie • 1925
Ruth Travers
Only Yesterday
Movie • 1933
Eleanor (Uncredited)
April Showers
Movie • 1923
Miriam Welton
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 1925
Ballerina (uncredited)
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
The Spider
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Movie • 1938
Nurse
The Thrill Seekers
Movie • 1927
Adrean Wainwright
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Movie • 1950
Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
Designing Woman
Movie • 1957
Vanessa Cole
Butterfly
Movie • 1924
Hilary Collier
Hands Down
Movie • 1918
Hilda Stuyvesant
Don Mike
Movie • 1927
Mary Kelsey
Mother o' Mine
Movie • 1917
Catherine Thurston
Eternal Love
Movie • 1917
Mignon
The Lure of Luxury
Movie • 1918
Dale Aldis
Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie • 1939
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Hungry Eyes
Movie • 1918
Mary Jane Appleton
Shock
Movie • 1946
Mrs. Margaret Cross
Cadet Girl
Movie • 1941
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Figaro and Frankie
Movie • 1947
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Ponjola
Movie • 1923
Gay Lypiatt
Polly Put the Kettle On
Movie • 1917
Polly Vance
The Eternal Woman
Movie • 1929
Doris Forbes
The Millionaire Pirate
Movie • 1919
The Girl
Stand Up and Cheer!
Movie • 1934
Secretary
Mothers-in-Law
Movie • 1923
Vianna Courtleigh
She Married Her Boss
Movie • 1935
Shopper
Whom the Gods Destroy
Movie • 1934
Frightened Balkan Passenger
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Movie • 1935
Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
Let's Live Tonight
Movie • 1935
American
Truxton King
Movie • 1923
Lorraine
Pluto and the Gopher
Movie • 1950
Minnie Mouse (voice)
The Love Hour
Movie • 1925
Betty Brown
Daughters of the Rich
Movie • 1923
Sally Malakoff
Her Husband's Secret
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Pearce
The Storm Breaker
Movie • 1925
Lysette DeJon
The Red, Red Heart
Movie • 1918
Rhoda Tuttle
The Guilt of Silence
Movie • 1918
Mary
Lew Tyler's Wives
Movie • 1926
Jessie Winkler