Ruth Channing
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ruth Channing.
Known For
The Thin Man
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Vanity Street
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Lazy River
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Broadway to Hollywood
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Laughing Boy
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
Outlawed Guns
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers. When Babe gets mixed up with outlaws, Reece loyally takes the rap. Eventually Babe pays for his recklessness with his life, but not before leading Reece to the film's head bad guy, gambler Jack Keeler.
Filmography
as Ruth Ellsworth
as Lulu
as Mrs. Jorgenson (uncredited)
as Tourist
as Ruby Drexel
as Wanda
as Rose Marie
as Frieda (uncredited)