Ruth Clifford
Acting
Born 1900-02-16
Died 1998-11-30
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
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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".
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Sunset Boulevard
The Searchers
Holiday Inn
The Quiet Man
3 Godfathers
Funny Girl
My Darling Clementine
Two Rode Together
The Phantom of the Opera
Whirlpool
Leave Her to Heaven
Sergeant Rutledge
Cry of the City
The Last Hurrah
The Wings of Eagles
Ball of Fire
Wagon Master
The Cobweb
The Show of Shows
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Lodger
Designing Woman
The Keys of the Kingdom
Stand Up and Cheer!
Drums Along the Mohawk
Bath Day
Don Mike
Pluto's Christmas Tree
Eternal Love
Only Yesterday
Swanee River
My Dad
Pluto's Sweater
Hungry Eyes
Not Wanted
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Key to the City
Hands Down
She Married Her Boss
Mr. Celebrity
Four Men and a Prayer
The Savage
Mickey's Delayed Date
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Wife, Husband and Friend
Pluto and the Gopher
The Luck of the Irish
Mother Wore Tights
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Circumstantial Evidence
The Cabaret Girl
You're My Everything
Cadet Girl
Stolen Harmony
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Coney Island
Figaro and Frankie
Father Was a Fullback
The Storm Breaker
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