Ruth Clifford

Known for ActingBorn 1900-02-16Died 1998-11-30Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

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".Read more

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Elmer and Elsie

Brooding Eyes

Her Husband's Secret

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

Daughters of the Rich

The Hitchhiker

Lew Tyler's Wives

The Tornado

The Love Hour

The Whispered Name

Butterfly

Hell's Hole

Free, Blonde and 21

Sunset Boulevard

Hazard

Cadet Girl

Stolen Harmony

The Searchers

The Storm Breaker

The Dangerous Age

The Game's Up

My Darling Clementine

Funny Girl

Leave Her to Heaven

She Married Her Boss

The Quiet Man

Ball of Fire

The Last Hurrah

The Face on the Barroom Floor

Ponjola

Pluto's Christmas Tree

Sergeant Rutledge

The Keys of the Kingdom

Only Yesterday

Pilgrimage

Holiday Inn

Mr. Celebrity

Along the Rio Grande

Swanee River

Safety in Numbers

The Phantom of the Opera

Paddy O'Day

Figaro and Frankie

Not Wanted

Pluto's Sweater

The Devil's Apple Tree

The Eternal Woman

3 Godfathers