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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".
Movie | Mickey's Family Album | Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) | 1998-06-11 |
Movie | The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors | Herself | 1993-06-30 |
Movie | Mickey's Golden Jubilee | Minnie Mouse (voice) | 1985-08-26 |
Movie | Funny Girl | Maid (uncredited) | 1968-09-19 |
Movie | Sergeant Rutledge | Officer's Wife (uncredited) | 1960-05-25 |
Movie | The Last Hurrah | Nurse (uncredited) | 1958-12-31 |
Movie | Designing Woman | Vanessa Cole | 1957-05-16 |
Movie | The Searchers | Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited) | 1956-05-16 |
Movie | The Cobweb | Mrs. Jenkins | 1955-06-07 |
Movie | The Quiet Man | Mother (uncredited) | 1952-07-21 |
Movie | Pluto's Christmas Tree | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 1952-11-21 |
Movie | Dude Duck | Cowgirls | 1951-03-02 |
Movie | Whirlpool | Nurse Eliott (uncredited) | 1950-01-13 |
Movie | Key to the City | Mrs. Anderson (uncredited) | 1950-02-02 |
Movie | Sunset Boulevard | Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited) | 1950-08-10 |
Movie | Wagon Master | Fleuretty Phyffe | 1950-04-22 |
Movie | Not Wanted | Mrs. Stone | 1949-06-24 |
Movie | You're My Everything | Nurse (uncredited) | 1949-07-22 |
Movie | Pluto's Sweater | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 1949-04-29 |
Movie | Father Was a Fullback | Neighbor | 1949-09-30 |
Movie | Free For All | Miss Berry (uncredited) | 1949-11-01 |
Movie | The Luck of the Irish | Secretary | 1948-09-15 |
Movie | Donald's Dream Voice | Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited) | 1948-05-21 |
Movie | Cry of the City | Nurse | 1948-09-29 |
Movie | 3 Godfathers | Woman in Bar (uncredited) | 1948-12-31 |
Movie | Mother Wore Tights | Resort Guest (uncredited) | 1947-08-20 |
Movie | Mickey's Delayed Date | Minnie Mouse | 1947-10-03 |
Movie | My Darling Clementine | Opera House Patron (uncredited) | 1946-10-17 |
Movie | Shock | Mrs. Margaret Cross | 1946-02-01 |
Movie | Bath Day | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 1946-10-11 |
Movie | The Spider | Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant | 1945-12-01 |
Movie | Circumstantial Evidence | Bridge Player (uncredited) | 1945-04-20 |
Movie | Leave Her to Heaven | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | The Lodger | Hairdresser (uncredited) | 1944-01-19 |
Movie | Swooner Crooner | Chickens (voice) | 1944-05-06 |
Movie | First Aiders | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 1944-09-22 |
Movie | The Keys of the Kingdom | Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited) | 1944-12-15 |
Movie | Marriage Is a Private Affair | Kelly | 1944-08-23 |
Movie | Coney Island | Saloon Patron | 1943-06-18 |
Movie | Holiday Inn | Guest at Inn (uncredited) | 1942-07-10 |
Movie | It Happened in Flatbush | Ruth (uncredited) | 1942-05-28 |
Movie | Blue, White, and Perfect | Ship's Passenger (uncredited) | 1942-01-06 |
Movie | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Graduation Spectator (uncredited) | 1942-06-26 |
Movie | Baggage Buster | Birds (voice) (uncredited) | 1941-04-18 |
Movie | Along the Rio Grande | Paula | 1941-02-07 |
Movie | Hollywood Steps Out | Coat Check Girl | 1941-05-24 |
Movie | Ball of Fire | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 1941-12-02 |
Movie | Road to Happiness | Ship Passenger (uncredited) | 1941-12-19 |
Movie | Cadet Girl | Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) | 1941-11-28 |
Movie | Mr. Celebrity | Woman In Convertible | 1941-10-10 |
Movie | Free, Blonde and 21 | Nurse | 1940-03-28 |
Movie | The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Mrs. Finney | 1940-01-11 |
Movie | Lillian Russell | Extra | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | Wife, Husband and Friend | Seamstress | 1939-03-03 |
Movie | Drums Along the Mohawk | Pioneer Woman (uncredited) | 1939-11-10 |
Movie | Swanee River | Bit Role | 1939-12-29 |
Movie | What Price Porky | Hens | 1938-02-25 |
Movie | Four Men and a Prayer | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 1938-04-29 |
Movie | Charlie Chan in Honolulu | Nurse | 1938-12-30 |
Movie | Safety in Numbers | Mrs. Hensley | 1938-05-30 |
Movie | Porky in Wackyland | Various Wackyland Citizens (voice) | 1938-09-24 |
Movie | Fatal Lady | Brazilian Opera Troupe | 1936-05-15 |
Movie | Paddy O'Day | Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger | 1936-01-17 |
Movie | To Mary - with Love | Nurse | 1936-08-01 |
Movie | Hollywood Boulevard | Nurse (uncredited) | 1936-08-20 |
Movie | Stolen Harmony | Nurse (uncredited) | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | She Married Her Boss | Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited) | 1935-09-19 |
Movie | Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen | Friend of Miss Fane | 1934-01-12 |
Movie | Making the Rounds | 1934-07-06 | |
Movie | Woman Unafraid | Kate | 1934-03-27 |
Movie | Face in the Sky | Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited) | 1933-01-15 |
Movie | The Hitchhiker | Adolph's Wife | 1933-02-11 |
Movie | Only Yesterday | Eleanor (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 |
Movie | The Constant Woman | Speakeasy Floozie | 1933-03-12 |
Movie | King Neptune | Mermaids | 1932-09-10 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | Brooding Eyes | Joan Ayre | 1926-03-15 |
Movie | The Tornado | Ruth Travers | 1925-01-04 |
Movie | As Man Desires | Gloria Gordon | 1925-01-11 |
Movie | The Phantom of the Opera | Ballerina (uncredited) | 1925-09-22 |
Movie | The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln | Unknown | 1924-02-02 |
Movie | The Whispered Name | Anne Gray | 1924-01-21 |
Movie | Butterfly | Hilary Collier | 1924-10-11 |
Movie | The Dangerous Age | Gloria Sanderson | 1923-02-04 |
Movie | The Face on the Barroom Floor | Marion Trevor | 1923-01-01 |
Movie | Hollywood | Dancer | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | April Showers | Miriam Welton | 1923-10-21 |
Movie | Hell's Hole | Dorothy Owen | 1923-09-23 |
Movie | Ponjola | Gay Lypiatt | 1923-10-28 |
Movie | My Dad | Dawn | 1922-07-23 |
Movie | Tropical Love | Rosario | 1921-10-23 |
Movie | The Invisible Ray | Mystery | 1920-07-01 |
Movie | The Game's Up | Ruth Elliott | 1919-01-20 |
Movie | Hands Down | Hilda Stuyvesant | 1918-02-11 |
Movie | Hungry Eyes | Mary Jane Appleton | 1918-03-11 |
Movie | The Cabaret Girl | Unknown | 1918-12-30 |
Movie | Fires of Youth | Unknown | 1918-08-26 |
Movie | A Kentucky Cinderella | Nannie | 1917-06-25 |
Movie | Polly Put the Kettle On | Polly Vance | 1917-01-01 |
Movie | Mother o' Mine | Catherine Thurston | 1917-09-02 |
Movie | The Savage | Marie Louise | 1917-11-19 |
Movie | The Door Between | 1917-12-10 | |
Movie | The Desire of the Moth | Stella Vorhis | 1917-10-22 |
Movie | The Mysterious Mr. Tiller | Clara Hawthorne | 1917-09-17 |
Movie | Behind the Lines | Camilla | 1916-09-11 |