Ruth Clifford
Age: N/A | From: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Ruth Clifford Cornelius , Ruth Cornelius
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 75
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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".
Most Famous Work
The Phantom of the Opera
(1925) Ballerina (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
(1950) Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
The Searchers
(1956) Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
(1948) Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939) Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
(1946) Opera House Patron (uncredited)
Wagon Master
(1950) Fleuretty Phyffe
Leave Her to Heaven
(1945) Telephone Operator (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) | |
| 1993 | Herself | |
| 1968 | Maid (uncredited) | |
| 1958 | Nurse (uncredited) | |
| 1957 | Vanessa Cole | |
| 1956 | Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited) | |
| 1955 | Mrs. Jenkins | |
| 1952 | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Mother (uncredited) | ||
| 1950 | Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited) | |
| Fleuretty Phyffe | ||
| Mrs. Anderson (uncredited) | ||
| Nurse Eliott (uncredited) | ||
| 1949 | Miss Berry (uncredited) | |
| Neighbor | ||
| Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Stone | ||
| Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1948 | Woman in Bar (uncredited) | |
| Nurse | ||
| Secretary | ||
| Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1947 | Minnie Mouse | |
| Resort Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Opera House Patron (uncredited) | |
| Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Margaret Cross | ||
| 1945 | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant | ||
| 1944 | Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited) | |
| Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| Hairdresser (uncredited) | ||
| 1943 | Saloon Patron | |
| 1942 | Guest at Inn (uncredited) | |
| Graduation Spectator (uncredited) | ||
| Ruth (uncredited) | ||
| Ship's Passenger (uncredited) | ||
| 1941 | Ship Passenger (uncredited) | |
| Chorus Girl (uncredited) | ||
| Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) | ||
| Woman In Convertible | ||
| Paula | ||
| 1940 | Extra | |
| Nurse | ||
| Mrs. Finney | ||
| 1939 | Bit Role | |
| Pioneer Woman (uncredited) | ||
| Seamstress | ||
| 1938 | Nurse | |
| Mrs. Hensley | ||
| Telephone Operator (uncredited) | ||
| 1936 | Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Nurse | ||
| Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger | ||
| 1935 | Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited) | |
| Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | N/A | |
| Kate | ||
| Friend of Miss Fane | ||
| 1933 | Eleanor (Uncredited) | |
| Speakeasy Floozie | ||
| Adolph's Wife | ||
| Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited) | ||
| 1929 | Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited) | |
| Doris Forbes | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1927 | Adrean Wainwright | |
| Mary Kelsey | ||
| 1926 | Joan Ayre | |
| 1925 | Ballerina (uncredited) | |
| Gloria Gordon | ||
| Ruth Travers | ||
| 1924 | Hilary Collier | |
| Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart | ||
| Anne Gray | ||
| 1923 | Gay Lypiatt | |
| Miriam Welton | ||
| Dorothy Owen | ||
| Gloria Sanderson | ||
| Marion Trevor | ||
| 1922 | Dawn | |
| 1921 | Rosario | |
| 1920 | Mystery | |
| 1919 | The Girl | |
| Ruth Elliott | ||
| 1918 | Ann Reid | |
| Dale Aldis | ||
| Lucille Linforth | ||
| Gertrude Temple | ||
| Mary Jane Appleton | ||
| Hilda Stuyvesant | ||
| 1917 | Heloise Crocker | |
| Marie Louise | ||
| Stella Vorhis | ||
| Clara Hawthorne | ||
| Catherine Thurston | ||
| Nannie | ||
| Mignon | ||
| Polly Vance | ||
| 1916 | Camilla | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
