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