Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1900-02-16
Day of Death
1998-11-30
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Ruth Clifford
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".
Filmography (122)
Mickey's Family Album
1998
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993
Funny Girl
1968
Two Rode Together
1961
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
The Last Hurrah
1958
Designing Woman
1957
The Searchers
1956
The Cobweb
1955
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
The Quiet Man
1952
Sunset Boulevard
1950
Wagon Master
1950
Pluto and the Gopher
1950
