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Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford

Birthday: 1900-02-17 | Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

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".

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1998
Mickey's Family Album

as    Minnie Mouse (Mickey's Delayed Date) (voice)

1952
Pluto's Christmas Tree

as    Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1950
Wagon Master

as    Fleuretty Phyffe

1949
Pluto's Sweater

as    Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1949
Not Wanted

as    Mrs. Stone

1948
Donald's Dream Voice

as    Daisy Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1948
The Luck of the Irish

as    Secretary

1947
Mickey's Delayed Date

as    Minnie Mouse (voice)

1947
Figaro and Frankie

as    Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Bath Day

as    Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1946
Shock

as    Mrs. Margaret Cross

1944
First Aiders

as    Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1941
Along the Rio Grande

as    Paula