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
Woman In Convertible
Mr. Celebrity
Gloria Gordon
As Man Desires
Mystery
The Invisible Ray
Jane Morris
The Devil's Apple Tree
Fleuretty Phyffe
Wagon Master
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto's Christmas Tree
Guest at Inn (uncredited)
Holiday Inn
Minnie Mouse (voice)
Mickey's Delayed Date
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
First Aiders
Dorothy Owen
Hell's Hole
Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Donald's Dream Voice
Nurse (uncredited)
You're My Everything
Mrs. Jenkins
The Cobweb
Resort Guest (uncredited)
Mother Wore Tights
Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
The Keys of the Kingdom
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Bath Day
Gertrude Temple
Midnight Madness
Marion Trevor
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Maid (uncredited)
Funny Girl
Rosario
Tropical Love
Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
Key to the City
Secretary
The Luck of the Irish
Speakeasy Floozie
The Constant Woman
Adolph's Wife
The Hitchhiker
Kate
Woman Unafraid
Dawn
My Dad
Nurse
To Mary - with Love
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
Nurse
Cry of the City
Neighbor
Father Was a Fullback
Nurse (uncredited)
Stolen Harmony
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
Paddy O'Day
Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
Face in the Sky
Mrs. Stone
Not Wanted
Friend of Miss Fane
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Seamstress
Wife, Husband and Friend
Bit Role
Swanee River
Paula
Along the Rio Grande
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto's Sweater
Mrs. Finney
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
She Married Her Boss
Herself
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Nurse (uncredited)
The Last Hurrah
Opera House Patron (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Miss Berry (uncredited)
Free For All
Nurse (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Bridge Player (uncredited)
Circumstantial Evidence
Ruth (uncredited)
It Happened in Flatbush
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Blue, White, and Perfect
Mother (uncredited)
The Quiet Man
Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
Extra
Lillian Russell
Waitress (uncredited)
Hazard
Woman (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Pilgrimage
Nurse
Free, Blonde and 21
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Road to Happiness
Woman in Bar (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
Hairdresser (uncredited)
The Lodger
Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Gloria Sanderson
The Dangerous Age
Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
The Searchers
Joan Ayre
Brooding Eyes
Making the Rounds
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Four Men and a Prayer
Saloon Patron
Coney Island
Mrs. Hensley
Safety in Numbers
Ann Reid
The Cabaret Girl
Stella Vorhis
The Desire of the Moth
Camilla
Behind the Lines
Anne Gray
The Whispered Name
Heloise Crocker
The Door Between
Lucille Linforth
Fires of Youth
Marie Louise
The Savage
Nannie
A Kentucky Cinderella
Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Ruth Elliott
The Game's Up
Clara Hawthorne
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Mickey's Family Album
Ruth Travers
The Tornado
Eleanor (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday
Miriam Welton
April Showers
Ballerina (uncredited)
The Phantom of the Opera
Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
The Show of Shows
Nurse
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
The Spider
Adrean Wainwright
The Thrill Seekers
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Ball of Fire
Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Vanessa Cole
Designing Woman
Hilary Collier
Butterfly
Hilda Stuyvesant
Hands Down
Mary Kelsey
Don Mike
Catherine Thurston
Mother o' Mine
Mignon
Eternal Love
Dale Aldis
The Lure of Luxury
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mary Jane Appleton
Hungry Eyes
Mrs. Margaret Cross
Shock
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Cadet Girl
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Figaro and Frankie
Gay Lypiatt
Ponjola
Polly Vance
Polly Put the Kettle On
Doris Forbes
The Eternal Woman
The Girl
The Millionaire Pirate
Secretary
Stand Up and Cheer!
Vianna Courtleigh
Mothers-in-Law
Shopper
She Married Her Boss
Frightened Balkan Passenger
Whom the Gods Destroy
Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
The Farmer Takes a Wife
American
Let's Live Tonight
Lorraine
Truxton King
Minnie Mouse (voice)
Pluto and the Gopher
Betty Brown
The Love Hour
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
115
Gender
Female
Birthday
1900-02-16
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Also Known As
Ruth Clifford Cornelius