Ruth Clifford
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".
Sunset Boulevard
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The Searchers
as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his...
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Holiday Inn
as Guest at Inn (uncredited)Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants...
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The Quiet Man
as Mother (uncredited)An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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My Darling Clementine
as Opera House Patron (uncredited)Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of...
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Funny Girl
as Maid (uncredited)The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New...
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3 Godfathers
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to...
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Ball of Fire
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The Phantom of the Opera
as Ballerina (uncredited)The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in...
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Pluto's Christmas Tree
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n Dale see him and make...
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Sergeant Rutledge
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Two Rode Together
as Woman (uncredited)Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
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Leave Her to Heaven
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...
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Wagon Master
as Fleuretty PhyffeTwo young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged...
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Whirlpool
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The Last Hurrah
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The Keys of the Kingdom
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Designing Woman
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Cry of the City
as NursePetty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward,...
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The Lodger
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
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Pilgrimage
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Bath Day
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Shock
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Circumstantial Evidence
as Bridge Player (uncredited)A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer...
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Mickey's Delayed Date
as Minnie MouseEven though Mickey's evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie...
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Pluto's Sweater
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Father Was a Fullback
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The Cobweb
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Figaro and Frankie
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Coney Island
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
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Show of Shows
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Paddy O'Day
as Mrs. Right - First Class PassengerA wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to...
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Mother Wore Tights
as Resort Guest (uncredited)In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco...
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Donald's Dream Voice
as Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)Donald is trying to sell brushes door-to-door, but since nobody can understand him, nobody will...
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Swanee River
as Bit RoleSwanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...
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First Aiders
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)Minnie's learning first aid; she asks Pluto and Figaro for help. Pluto keeps throwing Figaro...
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The Invisible Ray
as MysteryA scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who...
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The Luck of the Irish
as SecretaryFollowing American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun...
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The Spider
as Mrs. Gillespie - TenantAn ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Yorkshire Pioneer's WifeA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Four Men and a Prayer
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Graduation Spectator (uncredited)This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military...
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Not Wanted
as Mrs. StoneAfter a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her...
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Face in the Sky
as Hotel Guest with Dog (uncredited)Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one...
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You're My Everything
as Nurse (uncredited)In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes...
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Only Yesterday
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Hazard
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Wife, Husband and Friend
as SeamstressWoman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
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Safety in Numbers
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To Mary - with Love
as NurseMary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes...
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Road to Happiness
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but...
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Key to the City
as Mrs. Anderson (uncredited)At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from...
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Free, Blonde and 21
as NurseStories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a...
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Tropical Love
as RosarioIn San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Drifter, young and educated, and The Seeker, old and...
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
as HerselfA documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
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Mickey's Family Album
as Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice)
Blue, White, and Perfect
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and...
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Cadet Girl
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
as Ann Rutledge, first sweetheartA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the...
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Lillian Russell
as ExtraAlice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Nurse (uncredited)With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
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She Married Her Boss
as Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out...
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She Married Her Boss
as ShopperA super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out...
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as Miss Berry (uncredited)The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young...
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The Desire of the Moth
as Stella VorhisThe Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian
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Whom the Gods Destroy
as Frightened Balkan PassengerBroadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret...
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Behind the Lines
as CamillaThe daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.
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It Happened in Flatbush
as Ruth (uncredited)A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports...
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The Tornado
as Ruth Traversa tornado, flood, and log jam of astounding realism..a love theme as overwhelming as the tornado...
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Stolen Harmony
as Nurse (uncredited)Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray...
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Friend of Miss FaneMiss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son...
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Mr. Celebrity
as Woman In ConvertibleA couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his...
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Along the Rio Grande
as PaulaA trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers'...
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Fires of Youth
as Lucille LinforthLucille, a beautiful and romantic young woman, marries John Linforth, a wealthy businessman, who...
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Woman Unafraid
as KateA dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother...
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The Millionaire Pirate
as The GirlIn the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a...
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A Kentucky Cinderella
as NannieAfter the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She...
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The Dangerous Age
as Gloria SandersonMarried for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He...
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Hands Down
as Hilda StuyvesantMiner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot....
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The Cabaret Girl
as Ann ReidAnn Reid moves to the city to study opera but is discouraged by her teachers and so becomes a...
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The Lure of Luxury
as Dale AldisDale Aldis and John Coventry, who were sweethearts as children, meet again after the death of...
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As Man Desires
as Gloria GordonThe story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found...
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Don Mike
as Mary KelseyFollowing the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers,...
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The Hitchhiker
as Adolph's WifeHarry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip....
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April Showers
as Miriam WeltonThis silent romantic melodrama is believed to be lost.
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Hell's Hole
as Dorothy OwenCowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a...
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The Door Between
as Heloise CrockerThe Door Between was based on Anthony the Absolute, a novel by Samuel Merwyn. The story begins...
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The Thrill Seekers
as Adrean WainwrightMinor silent action hero James F. Fulton starred in this low-budget melodrama distributed by...
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Polly Put the Kettle On
as Polly VanceTo support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging...
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Ponjola
as Gay LypiattPonjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia...
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Mother o' Mine
as Catherine ThurstonMrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college...
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Hungry Eyes
as Mary Jane AppletonEx-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from...
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The Constant Woman
as Speakeasy FloozieA mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds...
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The Whispered Name
as Anne GrayAnne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he...
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The Savage
as Marie LouiseWhen Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
as Marion TrevorAs a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of...
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Let's Live Tonight
as AmericanNick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over...
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The Game's Up
as Ruth ElliottStruggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she...
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The Eternal Woman
as Doris ForbesOlive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her...
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Midnight Madness
as Gertrude TempleIn the act of robbing a set of rare jewels from a museum, a robber is wounded in the hand....
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My Dad
as DawnTom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the...
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Eternal Love
as MignonTraveling from the Latin Quarter of Paris to Brittany to seek inspiration for his painting,...
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Clara HawthornePolice headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a...
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Mothers-in-Law
as Vianna CourtleighFarmer's son David Wingate marries city girl Vianna Courtleigh over his parents' objections. Her...
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