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".
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1900-02-16
Place of birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Images
Cast
Mr. Celebrity
1941
4.00
As Man Desires
1925
3.00
The Invisible Ray
1920
5.00
The Devil's Apple Tree
1929
0.00
Wagon Master
1950
6.65
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
7.12
Holiday Inn
1942
7.06
Mickey's Delayed Date
1947
6.54
First Aiders
1944
5.76
Hell's Hole
1923
0.00
Donald's Dream Voice
1948
6.17
You're My Everything
1949
3.80
The Cobweb
1955
5.60
Mother Wore Tights
1947
5.30
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
7.00
Bath Day
1946
6.52
Midnight Madness
1918
0.00
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923
5.00
Funny Girl
1968
7.20
Tropical Love
1921
0.00
Key to the City
1950
6.20
The Luck of the Irish
1948
5.80
The Constant Woman
1933
4.60
The Hitchhiker
1933
0.00
Woman Unafraid
1934
5.00
My Dad
1922
0.00
To Mary - with Love
1936
4.50
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
7.41
Cry of the City
1948
6.74
Father Was a Fullback
1949
6.00
Stolen Harmony
1935
6.00
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
7.09
Paddy O'Day
1936
7.00
Face in the Sky
1933
4.70
Not Wanted
1949
6.80
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
5.00
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
6.00
Swanee River
1939
6.70
Along the Rio Grande
1941
6.30
Pluto's Sweater
1949
6.78
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
4.00
She Married Her Boss
1935
7.00
The Last Hurrah
1958
7.17
My Darling Clementine
1946
7.44
Free For All
1949
6.00
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
2.70
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
4.80
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
4.80
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
6.30
The Quiet Man
1952
7.30
Sunset Boulevard
1950
8.29
Lillian Russell
1940
6.10
Hazard
1948
8.00
Two Rode Together
1961
6.37
Pilgrimage
1933
6.90
Free, Blonde and 21
1940
8.00
Road to Happiness
1941
5.50
3 Godfathers
1948
6.70
The Lodger
1944
6.40
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
5.80
The Dangerous Age
1923
0.00
The Searchers
1956
7.70
Brooding Eyes
1926
0.00
Making the Rounds
1934
0.00
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
6.30
Coney Island
1943
6.10
Safety in Numbers
1938
0.00
The Cabaret Girl
1918
0.00
The Desire of the Moth
1917
0.00
Behind the Lines
1916
0.00
The Whispered Name
1924
0.00
The Door Between
1917
0.00
Fires of Youth
1918
1.00
The Savage
1917
0.00
A Kentucky Cinderella
1917
0.00
The Game's Up
1919
0.00
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917
0.00
Mickey's Family Album
1998
6.20
The Tornado
1925
0.00
Only Yesterday
1933
6.80
April Showers
1923
0.00
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
7.09
The Show of Shows
1929
5.50
The Spider
1945
5.30
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938
6.40
The Thrill Seekers
1927
6.00
Ball of Fire
1941
7.35
Whirlpool
1950
6.40
Designing Woman
1957
6.50
Butterfly
1924
0.00
Hands Down
1918
0.00
Don Mike
1927
0.00
Mother o' Mine
1917
0.00
Eternal Love
1917
0.00
The Lure of Luxury
1918
0.00
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
6.40
Hungry Eyes
1918
0.00
Shock
1946
5.89
Cadet Girl
1941
0.00
Figaro and Frankie
1947
6.90
Ponjola
1923
5.00
Polly Put the Kettle On
1917
0.00
The Eternal Woman
1929
0.00
The Millionaire Pirate
1919
0.00
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
4.90
Mothers-in-Law
1923
0.00
She Married Her Boss
1935
7.00
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
5.50
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
Let's Live Tonight
1935
1.00
Truxton King
1923
0.00
Pluto and the Gopher
1950
6.60
The Love Hour
1925
0.00
Daughters of the Rich
1923
0.00
Her Husband's Secret
1925
0.00
The Storm Breaker
1925
0.00