Ruth Clifford

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1900-02-16 (98 years old)

Deathday

1998-11-30

Place of Birth

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Ruth Clifford

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...

Acting

1941

Mr. Celebrity

as Woman In Convertible

1920

1925

As Man Desires

as Gloria Gordon

1929

1950

Wagon Master

as Fleuretty Phyffe

1952

Pluto's Christmas Tree

as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Holiday Inn

as Guest at Inn (uncredited)

1947

Mickey's Delayed Date

as Minnie Mouse (voice)

1944

First Aiders

as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1923

Hell's Hole

as Dorothy Owen

1948

Donald's Dream Voice

as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1949

You're My Everything

as Nurse (uncredited)

1955

The Cobweb

as Mrs. Jenkins

1947

Mother Wore Tights

as Resort Guest (uncredited)

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom

as Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)

1946

Bath Day

as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1918

Midnight Madness

as Gertrude Temple

1923

1968

Funny Girl

as Maid (uncredited)

1921

Tropical Love

as Rosario

1950

Key to the City

as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)

1948

1933

The Constant Woman

as Speakeasy Floozie

1933

The Hitchhiker

as Adolph's Wife

1934

1922

My Dad

as Dawn

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1948

1949

1935

Stolen Harmony

as Nurse (uncredited)

1960

Sergeant Rutledge

as Officer's Wife (uncredited)

1936

Paddy O'Day

as Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger

1933

Face in the Sky

as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)

1949

Not Wanted

as Mrs. Stone

1934

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

as Friend of Miss Fane

1939

1939

Swanee River

as Bit Role

1949

Pluto's Sweater

as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1940

1935

She Married Her Boss

as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)

1958

The Last Hurrah

as Nurse (uncredited)

1946

My Darling Clementine

as Opera House Patron (uncredited)

1949

Free For All

as Miss Berry (uncredited)

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Nurse (uncredited)

1945

Circumstantial Evidence

as Bridge Player (uncredited)

1942

It Happened in Flatbush

as Ruth (uncredited)

1942

Blue, White, and Perfect

as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)

1952

The Quiet Man

as Mother (uncredited)

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)

1940

1948

Hazard

as Waitress (uncredited)

1961

Two Rode Together

as Woman (uncredited)

1941

Road to Happiness

as Ship Passenger (uncredited)

1948

3 Godfathers

as Woman in Bar (uncredited)

1944

The Lodger

as Hairdresser (uncredited)

1942

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)

1923

The Dangerous Age

as Gloria Sanderson

1956

The Searchers

as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)

1926

Brooding Eyes

as Joan Ayre

1938

Four Men and a Prayer

as Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1943

Coney Island

as Saloon Patron

1938

Safety in Numbers

as Mrs. Hensley

1918

The Cabaret Girl

as Ann Reid

1917

The Desire of the Moth

as Stella Vorhis

1916

1924

The Whispered Name

as Anne Gray

1917

The Door Between

as Heloise Crocker

1918

Fires of Youth

as Lucille Linforth

1917

The Savage

as Marie Louise

1924

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart

1919

The Game's Up

as Ruth Elliott

1917

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

as Clara Hawthorne

1998

Mickey's Family Album

as Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice)

1925

The Tornado

as Ruth Travers

1933

Only Yesterday

as Eleanor (Uncredited)

1923

April Showers

as Miriam Welton

1925

The Phantom of the Opera

as Ballerina (uncredited)

1929

The Show of Shows

as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

1945

The Spider

as Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant

1927

The Thrill Seekers

as Adrean Wainwright

1941

Ball of Fire

as Chorus Girl (uncredited)

1950

Whirlpool

as Nurse Eliott (uncredited)

1957

Designing Woman

as Vanessa Cole

1924

Butterfly

as Hilary Collier

1918

Hands Down

as Hilda Stuyvesant

1927

Don Mike

as Mary Kelsey

1917

Mother o' Mine

as Catherine Thurston

1917

Eternal Love

as Mignon

1918

The Lure of Luxury

as Dale Aldis

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

1918

Hungry Eyes

as Mary Jane Appleton

1946

Shock

as Mrs. Margaret Cross

1941

Cadet Girl

as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)

1947

Figaro and Frankie

as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1923

Ponjola

as Gay Lypiatt

1917

1929

The Eternal Woman

as Doris Forbes

1919

1934

1923

Mothers-in-Law

as Vianna Courtleigh

1935

1934

Whom the Gods Destroy

as Frightened Balkan Passenger

1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife

as Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife

1935

1923

Truxton King

as Lorraine

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