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