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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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| 1 | Funny Girl (1968) | Maid (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 2 | Two Rode Together (1961) | Woman (uncredited) | 5 | |
| 3 | Sergeant Rutledge (1960) | Officer's Wife (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 4 | Designing Woman (1957) | Vanessa Cole | - | - |
| 5 | The Searchers (1956) | Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
| 6 | The Cobweb (1955) | Mrs. Jenkins | 4 | |
| 7 | Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952) | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 6.7 | |
| 8 | The Quiet Man (1952) | Mother (uncredited) | 6.8 | |
| 9 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited) | 8.5 | |
| 10 | Wagon Master (1950) | Fleuretty Phyffe | 7 | |
| 11 | Whirlpool (1950) | Nurse Eliott (uncredited) | 4 | |
| 12 | You're My Everything (1949) | Nurse (uncredited) | - | - |
| 13 | 3 Godfathers (1948) | Woman in Bar (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 14 | Cry of the City (1948) | Nurse | 5 | |
| 15 | Mother Wore Tights (1947) | Resort Guest (uncredited) | - | - |
| 16 | Bath Day (1946) | Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
| 17 | Shock (1946) | Mrs. Margaret Cross | 6.5 | |
| 18 | My Darling Clementine (1946) | Opera House Patron (uncredited) | 5.5 | |
| 19 | Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 20 | Circumstantial Evidence (1945) | Bridge Player (uncredited) | 3 | |
| 21 | The Spider (1945) | Mrs. Gillespie - Tenant | 5 | |
| 22 | The Lodger (1944) | Hairdresser (uncredited) | 2 | |
| 23 | Coney Island (1943) | Saloon Patron | - | - |
| 24 | Holiday Inn (1942) | Guest at Inn (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 25 | Ball of Fire (1941) | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 8 | |
| 26 | Swanee River (1939) | Bit Role | - | - |
| 27 | Only Yesterday (1933) | Eleanor (Uncredited) | 4 | |
| 28 | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Ballerina (uncredited) | 6.3 |
