Ruth Clifford
Acting
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 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".
Born: February 16, 1900
Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Known For
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Free, Blonde and 21
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
The Searchers
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
My Darling Clementine
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
Leave Her to Heaven
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
The Quiet Man
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
Funny Girl
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Filmography
as Maid (uncredited)
as Woman (uncredited)
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Vanessa Cole
as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
as Mrs. Jenkins
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Mother (uncredited)
as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
as Fleuretty Phyffe
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
as Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
as Miss Berry (uncredited)
as Neighbor
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Mrs. Stone
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Secretary
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
as Resort Guest (uncredited)
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Opera House Patron (uncredited)
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Mrs. Margaret Cross
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
as Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
as Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Hairdresser (uncredited)
as Saloon Patron
as Guest at Inn (uncredited)
as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
as Ruth (uncredited)
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
as Woman In Convertible
as Paula
as Extra
as Nurse
as Mrs. Finney
as Bit Role
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
as Seamstress
as Nurse
as Mrs. Hensley
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
as Shopper
as Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
as Nurse (uncredited)
as American
as Frightened Balkan Passenger
as Secretary
as Kate
as Friend of Miss Fane
as Eleanor (Uncredited)
as Speakeasy Floozie
as Adolph's Wife
as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
as Doris Forbes
as Adrean Wainwright
as Mary Kelsey
as Lysette DeJon
as Betty Brown
as Ballerina (uncredited)
as Mrs. Pearce
as Gloria Gordon
as Ruth Travers
as Hilary Collier
as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
as Anne Gray
as Gay Lypiatt
as Miriam Welton
as Dorothy Owen
as Vianna Courtleigh
as Sally Malakoff
as Lorraine
as Gloria Sanderson
as Marion Trevor
as Dawn
as Rosario
as Mystery
as The Girl
as Ruth Elliott
as Ann Reid
as Dale Aldis
as Lucille Linforth
as Gertrude Temple
as Mary Jane Appleton
as Hilda Stuyvesant
as Heloise Crocker
as Marie Louise
as Stella Vorhis
as Clara Hawthorne
as Catherine Thurston
as Nannie
as Mignon
as Polly Vance
as Camilla