Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford

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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

1998

Mickey's Family Album
Movie

Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1968

Funny Girl
Movie

Maid (uncredited)

1961

Two Rode Together
Movie

Woman (uncredited)

1960

Sergeant Rutledge
Movie

Officer's Wife (uncredited)

1958

The Last Hurrah
Movie

Nurse (uncredited)

1957

1956

The Searchers
Movie

Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)

1955

The Cobweb
Movie

Mrs. Jenkins

1952

Pluto's Christmas Tree
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1952

The Quiet Man
Movie

Mother (uncredited)

1950

Sunset Boulevard
Movie

Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)

1950

Wagon Master
Movie

Fleuretty Phyffe

1950

Pluto and the Gopher
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice)

1950

Key to the City
Movie

Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)

1950

Whirlpool
Movie

Nurse Eliott (uncredited)

1949

You're My Everything
Movie

Nurse (uncredited)

1949

Not Wanted
Movie

Mrs. Stone

1949

Pluto's Sweater
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1948

3 Godfathers
Movie

Woman in Bar (uncredited)

1948

Donald's Dream Voice
Movie

Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1947

Mickey's Delayed Date
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice)

1947

Mother Wore Tights
Movie

Resort Guest (uncredited)

1947

Figaro and Frankie
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1946

My Darling Clementine
Movie

Opera House Patron (uncredited)

1946

Bath Day
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Shock
Movie

Mrs. Margaret Cross

1945

Leave Her to Heaven
Movie

Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1944

The Keys of the Kingdom
Movie

Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)

1944

First Aiders
Movie

Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1944

The Lodger
Movie

Hairdresser (uncredited)

1943

Coney Island
Movie

Saloon Patron

1942

Holiday Inn
Movie

Guest at Inn (uncredited)

1942

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie

Graduation Spectator (uncredited)

1942

Blue, White and Perfect
Movie

Ship's Passenger (uncredited)

1941

Ball of Fire
Movie

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

1939

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie

Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

1938

Four Men and a Prayer
Movie

Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1935

She Married Her Boss
Movie

Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)

1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife
Movie

Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife

1934

1933

Only Yesterday
Movie

Eleanor (Uncredited)

1933

1933

The Constant Woman
Movie

Speakeasy Floozie

1929

The Show of Shows
Movie

Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)

1929

1926

1925

1925

1925

1925

The Phantom of the Opera
Movie

Ballerina (uncredited)

1925

As Man Desires
Movie

Gloria Gordon

1923

1923

1923

1923

1922

1918

1918

1918

Infos

Full Name
Ruth Clifford
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
2/16/1900
Date of Death
11/30/1998
Also Known As

Ruth Clifford Cornelius

Ruth Cornelius