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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".
Filmography
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Movies 119
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I Used to Be in Pictures (2000)
Mickey's Family Album (1998)
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993)
Lifestyles of the Rich and Animated (1991)
A Disney Christmas Gift (1982)
Funny Girl (1968)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Designing Woman (1957)
The Searchers (1956)
The Cobweb (1955)
Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952)
Pluto's Party (1952)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Wagon Master (1950)
Crazy Over Daisy (1950)
Pluto and the Gopher (1950)
Key to the City (1950)
Whirlpool (1950)
Pluto's Heart Throb (1950)
Free For All (1949)
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
You're My Everything (1949)
Not Wanted (1949)
Pluto's Sweater (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Cry of the City (1948)
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Donald's Dream Voice (1948)
Mickey's Delayed Date (1947)
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Figaro and Frankie (1947)
Sleepy Time Donald (1947)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Bath Day (1946)
In Dutch (1946)
Shock (1946)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Spider (1945)
Cured Duck (1945)
Canine Casanova (1945)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
First Aiders (1944)
The Lodger (1944)
Coney Island (1943)
Holiday Inn (1942)
The Sleepwalker (1942)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
Road to Happiness (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Cadet Girl (1941)
Mr. Celebrity (1941)
Along the Rio Grande (1941)
Lillian Russell (1940)
Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Swanee River (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Safety in Numbers (1938)
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
To Mary - with Love (1936)
The Little Stranger (1936)
Paddy O'Day (1936)
She Married Her Boss (1935)
Stolen Harmony (1935)
Making the Rounds (1934)
Woman Unafraid (1934)
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934)
Only Yesterday (1933)
The Constant Woman (1933)
The Hitchhiker (1933)
Face in the Sky (1933)
The Cat's Out (1931)
Show of Shows (1929)
The Eternal Woman (1929)
The Devil's Apple Tree (1929)
The Thrill Seekers (1927)
Don Mike (1927)
Brooding Eyes (1926)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
As Man Desires (1925)
The Tornado (1925)
Butterfly (1924)
The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios (1924)
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
The Whispered Name (1924)
Ponjola (1923)
April Showers (1923)
Hell's Hole (1923)
The Dangerous Age (1923)
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1923)
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922)
My Dad (1922)
Tropical Love (1921)
The Invisible Ray (1920)
The Millionaire Pirate (1919)
The Game's Up (1919)
The Cabaret Girl (1918)
The Lure of Luxury (1918)
Fires of Youth (1918)
Midnight Madness (1918)
The Red, Red Heart (1918)
Hungry Eyes (1918)
Hands Down (1918)
The Door Between (1917)
The Savage (1917)
The Desire of the Moth (1917)
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller (1917)
Mother o' Mine (1917)
A Kentucky Cinderella (1917)
Eternal Love (1917)
Polly Put the Kettle On (1917)
Behind the Lines (1916)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1900-02-17
Deathday1998-11-30 (98 years old)
Birth PlacePawtucket, Rhode Island, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsRuth Clifford Cornelius, Ruth Cornelius
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