Ruth Clifford (Actor)

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Movies starring Ruth Clifford have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.

Sunset Boulevard - released in 1950 - is Ruth Clifford's highest rated movie, with a score of 88% based on 824 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Ruth Clifford is Stand Up and Cheer! - released in 1934 - with a score of 50% based on 6 reviews.

Actor Biography

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".

Ruth Clifford has acted in films with Mae Marsh, Jack Pennick, Ward Bond and Frank Baker.

Ruth Clifford has worked with these film directors: John Ford, Vincente Minnelli, John M. Stahl and Billy Wilder.