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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 16, 1900
Died
November 30, 1998
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Also Known As
- Ruth Clifford Cornelius
- Ruth Cornelius
Ruth Clifford
0.5 Popularity
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
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6.2
Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Mickey's Family Album
1998
1.0
Herself
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993
7.2
Maid (uncredited)
Funny Girl
1968
6.4
Woman (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
1961
7.1
Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
7.2
Nurse (uncredited)
The Last Hurrah
1958
6.5
Vanessa Cole
Designing Woman
1957
7.7
Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
The Searchers
1956
5.6
Mrs. Jenkins
The Cobweb
1955
7.1
Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
Credits
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Mickey's Family Album
as Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1998
6.2
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
as Herself
1993
1.0
Funny Girl
as Maid (uncredited)
1968
7.2
Two Rode Together
as Woman (uncredited)
1961
6.4
Sergeant Rutledge
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1960
7.1
The Last Hurrah
as Nurse (uncredited)
1958
7.2
Designing Woman
as Vanessa Cole
1957
6.5
The Searchers
as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
1956
7.7
The Cobweb
as Mrs. Jenkins
1955
5.6
Pluto's Christmas Tree
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1952
7.1
The Quiet Man
as Mother (uncredited)
1952
7.3
Sunset Boulevard
as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
1950
8.3
Wagon Master
as Fleuretty Phyffe
1950
6.6
Pluto and the Gopher
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
1950
6.6
Key to the City
as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)
1950
6.2
Whirlpool
as Nurse Eliott (uncredited)
1950
6.4
Free For All
as Miss Berry (uncredited)
1949
6.0
Father Was a Fullback
as Neighbor
1949
6.0
You're My Everything
as Nurse (uncredited)
1949
3.8
Not Wanted
as Mrs. Stone
1949
6.8
Pluto's Sweater
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1949
6.8
3 Godfathers
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1948
6.7
Cry of the City
as Nurse
1948
6.7
The Luck of the Irish
as Secretary
1948
5.8
Hazard
as Waitress (uncredited)
1948
8.0
Donald's Dream Voice
as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
1948
6.2
Mickey's Delayed Date
as Minnie Mouse (voice)
1947
6.5
Mother Wore Tights
as Resort Guest (uncredited)
1947
5.3
Figaro and Frankie
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1947
6.9
My Darling Clementine
as Opera House Patron (uncredited)
1946
7.4
Bath Day
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1946
6.5
Shock
as Mrs. Margaret Cross
1946
5.9
Leave Her to Heaven
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1945
7.4
The Spider
as Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant
1945
5.3
Circumstantial Evidence
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
1945
4.8
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)
1944
7.0
First Aiders
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1944
5.8
The Lodger
as Hairdresser (uncredited)
1944
6.4
Coney Island
as Saloon Patron
1943
6.1
Holiday Inn
as Guest at Inn (uncredited)
1942
7.1
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
1942
5.8
It Happened in Flatbush
as Ruth (uncredited)
1942
4.8
Blue, White, and Perfect
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
1942
6.3
Road to Happiness
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
1941
5.5
Ball of Fire
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1941
7.3
Cadet Girl
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1941
0.0
Mr. Celebrity
as Woman In Convertible
1941
4.0
Along the Rio Grande
as Paula
1941
6.3
Lillian Russell
as Extra
1940
6.1
Free, Blonde and 21
as Nurse
1940
8.0
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Mrs. Finney
1940
4.0
Swanee River
as Bit Role
1939
6.7
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
1939
6.4
Wife, Husband and Friend
as Seamstress
1939
6.0
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as Nurse
1938
6.4
Safety in Numbers
as Mrs. Hensley
1938
0.0
Four Men and a Prayer
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1938
6.3
Hollywood Boulevard
as Nurse (uncredited)
1936
2.7
To Mary - with Love
as Nurse
1936
4.5
Paddy O'Day
as Mrs. Right - First Class Passenger
1936
7.0
She Married Her Boss
as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
1935
7.0
She Married Her Boss
as Shopper
1935
7.0
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Yorkshire Pioneer's Wife
1935
6.1
Stolen Harmony
as Nurse (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Let's Live Tonight
as American
1935
1.0
Whom the Gods Destroy
as Frightened Balkan Passenger
1934
5.5
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Making the Rounds
1934
0.0
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Secretary
1934
4.9
Woman Unafraid
as Kate
1934
5.0
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Friend of Miss Fane
1934
5.0
Only Yesterday
as Eleanor (Uncredited)
1933
6.8
Pilgrimage
1933
6.9
The Constant Woman
as Speakeasy Floozie
1933
4.6
The Hitchhiker
as Adolph's Wife
1933
0.0
Face in the Sky
as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)
1933
4.7
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Number (uncredited)
1929
5.5
The Eternal Woman
as Doris Forbes
1929
0.0
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The Devil's Apple Tree
as Jane Morris
1929
0.0
The Thrill Seekers
as Adrean Wainwright
1927
6.0
Don Mike
as Mary Kelsey
1927
0.0
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Brooding Eyes
as Joan Ayre
1926
0.0
The Storm Breaker
as Lysette DeJon
1925
0.0
The Love Hour
as Betty Brown
1925
0.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as Ballerina (uncredited)
1925
7.1
Her Husband's Secret
as Mrs. Pearce
1925
0.0
As Man Desires
as Gloria Gordon
1925
3.0
The Tornado
as Ruth Travers
1925
0.0
Butterfly
as Hilary Collier
1924
0.0
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart
1924
0.0
The Whispered Name
as Anne Gray
1924
0.0
Ponjola
as Gay Lypiatt
1923
5.0
April Showers
as Miriam Welton
1923
0.0
Hell's Hole
as Dorothy Owen
1923
0.0
Mothers-in-Law
as Vianna Courtleigh
1923
0.0
Daughters of the Rich
as Sally Malakoff
1923
0.0
Truxton King
as Lorraine
1923
0.0
The Dangerous Age
as Gloria Sanderson
1923
0.0
The Face on the Barroom Floor
as Marion Trevor
1923
5.0
My Dad
as Dawn
1922
0.0
Tropical Love
as Rosario
1921
0.0
The Invisible Ray
as Mystery
1920
5.0
The Millionaire Pirate
as The Girl
1919
0.0
The Game's Up
as Ruth Elliott
1919
0.0
The Cabaret Girl
as Ann Reid
1918
0.0
The Lure of Luxury
as Dale Aldis
1918
0.0
Fires of Youth
as Lucille Linforth
1918
1.0
Midnight Madness
as Gertrude Temple
1918
0.0
Hungry Eyes
as Mary Jane Appleton
1918
0.0
Hands Down
as Hilda Stuyvesant
1918
0.0
The Door Between
as Heloise Crocker
1917
0.0
The Savage
as Marie Louise
1917
0.0
The Desire of the Moth
as Stella Vorhis
1917
0.0
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Clara Hawthorne
1917
0.0
Mother o' Mine
as Catherine Thurston
1917
0.0
A Kentucky Cinderella
as Nannie
1917
0.0
Eternal Love
as Mignon
1917
0.0
Polly Put the Kettle On
as Polly Vance
1917
0.0
Behind the Lines
as Camilla
1916
0.0