Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 16, 1900
Died
Nov 30, 1998
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Credits
123 titles
Ruth Clifford
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".
Known For
Filmography
Mickey's Family Album
Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Herself
Funny Girl
Maid (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Woman (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
The Last Hurrah
Nurse (uncredited)
Designing Woman
Vanessa Cole
The Wings of Eagles
Tourist (uncredited)
The Searchers
Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Florence (uncredited)
The Cobweb
Mrs. Jenkins
Pluto's Christmas Tree
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
The Quiet Man
Mother (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
Wagon Master
Fleuretty Phyffe
Pluto and the Gopher
Minnie Mouse (voice)
Key to the City
Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
Free For All
Miss Berry (uncredited)
Father Was a Fullback
Neighbor
You're My Everything
Nurse (uncredited)
Not Wanted
Mrs. Stone
Pluto's Sweater
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Cry of the City
Nurse
The Luck of the Irish
Secretary
Hazard
Waitress (uncredited)
Donald's Dream Voice
Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Delayed Date
Minnie Mouse (voice)
Mother Wore Tights
Resort Guest (uncredited)
Figaro and Frankie
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Opera House Patron (uncredited)
Bath Day
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Shock
Margaret Cross (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
The Spider
Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
Circumstantial Evidence
Bridge Player (uncredited)
The Keys of the Kingdom
Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
First Aiders
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
The Lodger
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Coney Island
Saloon Patron
Holiday Inn
Guest at Inn (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
It Happened in Flatbush
Ruth (uncredited)
Blue, White and Perfect
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Road to Happiness
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Ball of Fire
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Cadet Girl
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Mr. Celebrity
Woman In Convertible
Along the Rio Grande
Paula