Ruth Clifford
Acting
🎂 1900-02-16
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".
Cast credits(113)
Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
1950
Woman (uncredited)
1961
Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
1956
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1941
Maid (uncredited)
1968
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1960
Mother (uncredited)
1952
Opera House Patron (uncredited)
1946
Vanessa Cole
1957
Mrs. Jenkins
1955
Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1948
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
1929
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Nurse (uncredited)
1958
Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
1945
Guest at Inn (uncredited)
1942
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1945
Ballerina (uncredited)
1925
Mrs. Stone
1949
Nurse
1948
Herself
1993
Nurse (uncredited)
1935
Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
1944
Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
1935
Waitress (uncredited)
1948
Kate
1934
Clara Hawthorne
1917
Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
1950
1934
Fleuretty Phyffe
1950
Nurse
1936
Saloon Patron
1943
Hilda Stuyvesant
1918
Hairdresser (uncredited)
1944
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
1939
Catherine Thurston
1917
Miss Berry (uncredited)
1949
Marion Trevor
1923
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1938
Minnie Mouse (voice)
1947
Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
1950
Secretary
1948
Mrs. Margaret Cross
1946
Lucille Linforth
1918
Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
1942
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
1941
Speakeasy Floozie
1933
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1941
Nurse (uncredited)
1949
Eleanor (Uncredited)
1933
Mrs. Finney
1940
Bit Role
1939
Bridge Player (uncredited)
1945
Lorraine
1923
Nurse (uncredited)
1936
Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
1935
Shopper
1935
Friend of Miss Fane
1934
Nurse
1938
Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
1933
Stella Vorhis
1917
Ruth (uncredited)
1942
Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice)
1998
Gay Lypiatt
1923
Mary Kelsey
1927
Neighbor
1949
Mignon
1917
Mrs. Hensley
1938
Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
1936
Nannie
1917
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Secretary
1934
Resort Guest (uncredited)
1947
Vianna Courtleigh
1923
Heloise Crocker
1917
Ruth Travers
1925
1933
Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
1924
Seamstress
1939
Mary Jane Appleton
1918
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Dale Aldis
1918
Anne Gray
1924
Miriam Welton
1923
Dorothy Owen
1923
Joan Ayre
1926
The Girl
1919
Ann Reid
1918
Extra
1940
Hilary Collier
1924
Marie Louise
1917
Nurse
1940
Gertrude Temple
1918
Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Polly Vance
1917
American
1935
Doris Forbes
1929
Gloria Sanderson
1923
Gloria Gordon
1925
Paula
1941
Camilla
1916
Adrean Wainwright
1927
Woman In Convertible
1941
Mystery
1920
Dawn
1922
Frightened Balkan Passenger
1934
Ruth Elliott
1919
Adolph's Wife
1933
Jane Morris
1929
Rosario
1921