Ruth Clifford
Biography
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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".
Acting (110 movies)
Mr. Celebrity
1941
The Invisible Ray
1920
As Man Desires
1925
Wagon Master
1950
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
Holiday Inn
1942
Mickey's Delayed Date
1947
First Aiders
1944
Hell's Hole
1923
Donald's Dream Voice
1948
You're My Everything
1949
The Cobweb
1955
Mother Wore Tights
1947
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
Bath Day
1946
Midnight Madness
1918
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923
Funny Girl
1968
Tropical Love
1921
Key to the City
1950
The Luck of the Irish
1948
The Constant Woman
1933
The Hitchhiker
1933
Woman Unafraid
1934
My Dad
1922
To Mary - with Love
1936
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Cry of the City
1948
Father Was a Fullback
1949
Stolen Harmony
1935
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
Paddy O'Day
1936
Face in the Sky
1933
Not Wanted
1949
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Swanee River
1939
Along the Rio Grande
1941
Pluto's Sweater
1949
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
She Married Her Boss
1935
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993
The Last Hurrah
1958
My Darling Clementine
1946
Free For All
1949
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
The Quiet Man
1952
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Lillian Russell
1940
Hazard
1948
Two Rode Together
1961
Pilgrimage
1933
Free, Blonde and 21
1940
Road to Happiness
1941
3 Godfathers
1948
The Lodger
1944
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
The Dangerous Age
1923
The Searchers
1956
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
Coney Island
1943
Safety in Numbers
1938
The Cabaret Girl
1918
The Desire of the Moth
1917
Behind the Lines
1916
The Whispered Name
1924
The Door Between
1917
Fires of Youth
1918
The Savage
1917
A Kentucky Cinderella
1917
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924
The Game's Up
1919
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917
The Tornado
1925
Only Yesterday
1933
April Showers
1923
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
The Show of Shows
1929
The Spider
1945
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938
The Thrill Seekers
1927
Ball of Fire
1941
Whirlpool
1950
Designing Woman
1957
Butterfly
1924
Hands Down
1918
Don Mike
1927
Mother o' Mine
1917
Eternal Love
1917
The Lure of Luxury
1918
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Hungry Eyes
1918
Shock
1946
Cadet Girl
1941
Figaro and Frankie
1947
Ponjola
1923
Polly Put the Kettle On
1917
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