Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
2/16/1900
Place of Birth
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Also Known As
Ruth Clifford CorneliusRuth Cornelius
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 ...
Known For
Woman Unafraid
as Kate
Coney Island
as Saloon Patron
The Lodger
as Hairdresser (uncredited)
Designing Woman
as Vanessa Cole
Bath Day
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Celebrity
as Woman In Convertible
Wagon Master
as Fleuretty Phyffe
3 Godfathers
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
as Nurse (uncredited)
My Dad
as Dawn
Pilgrimage
Unknown Role
First Aiders
as Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Hazard
as Waitress (uncredited)
The Searchers
as Deranged Woman at Fort (uncredited)
The Quiet Man
as Mother (uncredited)
The Tornado
as Ruth Travers
Cadet Girl
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
The Hitchhiker
as Adolph's Wife
Sunset Boulevard
as Sheldrake's Secretary (uncredited)
Career Timeline
1952
1950
1949
1948
1947
1946
1945
1944
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
1936
1935
1934
1933
1929
1925
1924
1923
1918
1917
The Door Between
as Heloise Crocker
The Savage
as Marie Louise
The Desire of the Moth
as Stella Vorhis
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Clara Hawthorne
Mother o' Mine
as Catherine Thurston
A Kentucky Cinderella
as Nannie
Eternal Love
as Mignon
Polly Put the Kettle On
as Polly Vance