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