Ruth Clifford

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

126

Movies

123

Born: February 16, 1900 – November 30, 1998
From: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

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".

Works

123 films

Sunset Boulevard

19508.3

The Searchers

19567.7

Holiday Inn

19427.0

3 Godfathers

19486.8

The Quiet Man

19527.3

Funny Girl

19687.2

My Darling Clementine

19467.5

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

19566.7

Wagon Master

19506.7

The Phantom of the Opera

19257.1

Two Rode Together

19616.4

Ball of Fire

19417.4

Leave Her to Heaven

19457.4

The Last Hurrah

19587.2

The Wings of Eagles

19576.3

The Keys of the Kingdom

19447.1

Cry of the City

19486.7

Stand Up and Cheer!

19345.3

Sergeant Rutledge

19607.0

The Lodger

19446.5

Drums Along the Mohawk

19396.5

The Show of Shows

19296.6

The Cobweb

19555.7

Hands Down

1918

Pluto's Christmas Tree

19527.1

Don Mike

19277.0

Eternal Love

1917

Hungry Eyes

1918

Only Yesterday

19337.1

Whirlpool

19506.4

Wife, Husband and Friend

19396.5

She Married Her Boss

19357.5

Not Wanted

19496.8

To Mary - with Love

19365.7

Mickey's Delayed Date

19476.5

Pluto and the Gopher

19506.6

My Dad

19227.0

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

19426.4

Four Men and a Prayer

19386.5

Pluto's Sweater

19496.8

Lillian Russell

19406.7

Designing Woman

19576.7

Bath Day

19466.5

Coney Island

19436.3

The Luck of the Irish

19486.1

You're My Everything

19494.8

Circumstantial Evidence

19455.2

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

19405.3

The Farmer Takes a Wife

19356.2

The Millionaire Pirate

19197.0

The Savage

1917

The Storm Breaker

19258.0

Hollywood Boulevard

19364.5

The Desire of the Moth

1917

Mr. Celebrity

19417.0

Swanee River

19397.0

Shock

19465.9

Lew Tyler's Wives

19269.0

Whom the Gods Destroy

19346.0

The Door Between

1917

Figaro and Frankie

19476.8

Blue, White and Perfect

19426.5

Her Husband's Secret

192510.0

It Happened in Flatbush

19425.4

Mother Wore Tights

19475.7

Stolen Harmony

19358.0

Father Was a Fullback

19496.3

The Guilt of Silence

1918

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

192410.0

Key to the City

19506.5

Cadet Girl

19418.0

Fires of Youth

19181.0

Along the Rio Grande

19417.0

Paddy O'Day

19367.0

Safety in Numbers

19387.0

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

19386.5

Elmer and Elsie

193410.0

Let's Live Tonight

19355.5

Free, Blonde and 21

19407.3

Face in the Sky

19335.8

Pilgrimage

19337.1

Free For All

19496.3

The Face on the Barroom Floor

19237.5

Behind the Lines

1916

A Kentucky Cinderella

1917

The Constant Woman

19335.0

The Cabaret Girl

1918

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

19346.0

Ponjola

19237.5

Midnight Madness

1918

The Red, Red Heart

1918

First Aiders

19445.9

Hell's Hole

19239.0

Brooding Eyes

192610.0

April Showers

19237.0

The Dangerous Age

19238.0

Road to Happiness

19415.7

Mother o' Mine

1917

The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

19933.7

The Game's Up

19198.0

The Spider

19455.6

The Hitchhiker

19339.0

The Lure of Luxury

1918

Truxton King

19237.0

The Devil's Apple Tree

19297.0

Mickey's Family Album

19986.2

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

1917

The Tornado

19259.0

Donald's Dream Voice

19486.3

Woman Unafraid

19346.7

Hazard

19488.0

Butterfly

19249.0

Daughters of the Rich

192310.0

Tropical Love

19217.0

The Invisible Ray

19206.0

The Whispered Name

19249.0

The Love Hour

19259.0

The Eternal Woman

19297.0

Polly Put the Kettle On

1917

The Thrill Seekers

19276.5

As Man Desires

19254.5

Mothers-in-Law

19237.0

Making the Rounds

1934