---
name: "Ruth Dwyer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-dwyer"
fi1m_id: "ruth-dwyer"
imdb_id: "nm0245536"
tmdb_id: 144011
wikidata_id: "Q3453611"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 January 1898"
died: "2 March 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:18:46.957666+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ruth Dwyer

## Identity

Ruth Dwyer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ruth-dwyer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ruth-dwyer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0245536
- **TMDB ID:** 144011
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3453611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dwyer_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3453611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245536/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144011

Actor. Born 25 January 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 2 March 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 January 1898, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 2 March 1978
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dwyer_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3453611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245536/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144011

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Seven Chances*](https://film.one/film/seven-chances.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ruth Dwyer was an American actress. She appeared in a number of silent films in the 1920s, most notably as Buster Keaton's leading lady in *Seven Chances* (1925).

Her other silent credits include *The Stealers* (1920), *Second Hand Love* (1923), *The Reckless Age* (1924) and *A Perfect Gentleman* (1928). She largely retired from leading roles after 1928 but took uncredited parts in several sound films, including *For Me and My Gal* (1942).

Dwyer was married to actor and talent agent William Jackie. The couple ran the Ruth Dwyer Agency in San Francisco.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Seven Chances* (1925), Fi1m 78, as Mary Jones, His Girl — [page](https://film.one/film/seven-chances.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Slightly Dangerous* (1943), as Customer in department store (uncredited)
- *For Me and My Gal* (1942), as Nurse (uncredited)
- *Mannequin* (1938), as Wedding Guest (Uncredited)
- *Alex The Great* (1928), as Alice
- *Sailors' Wives* (1928), as Pat Scott
- *A Perfect Gentleman* (1928), as Wayne's Daughter
- *Scrambled Weddings* (1928), as Betty
- *No Publicity* (1927), as Sally Lawrence
- *The Racing Fool* (1927), as Helen Drake
- *White Pants Willie* (1927), as Judy
- *The Lost Limited* (1927), as Nora Murphy
- *Stepping Along* (1926), as Fay Allen
- *Crack O' Dawn* (1926), as Etta Thompson
- *A Man of Quality* (1926), as Marion Marcy
- *The Brown Derby* (1926), as Betty Caldwell
- *The Patent Leather Pug* (1925), as Catherine Curtis
- *The Canvas Kisser* (1925), as Ruth Harkness
- *Going the Limit* (1925), as Helen Hayward
- *White Fang* (1925), as Mollie Holland
- *Seven Chances* (1925), as Mary Jones, His Girl — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/seven-chances.md)
- *The Reckless Age* (1924), as Cecilia Meyrick
- *Dark Stairways* (1924), as Sunny Day
- *Broadway or Bust* (1924), as Virginia Redding
- *After a Million* (1924), as Countess Olga
- *The Stranger Of The North* (1924), as Mary MacGregor
- *Jack O'Clubs* (1924), Actor
- *His Mystery Girl* (1923), as Gloria Bliss
- *Second Hand Love* (1923), as Angela Trent
- *Clay Dollars* (1921), as June Gordon
- *The Stealers* (1920), as Mary Forrest
- *The Evil Eye* (1920), as Dora Bruce
- *The Lurking Peril* (1919), as Betty Bates
- *The Nest*, as Susan Hamilton

## Gallery

- ![Ruth Dwyer, a screen actress. Subjects: actresses (1924)](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-256763af2199.jpg) Ruth Dwyer, a screen actress. Subjects: actresses (1924) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Ruth_Dwyer%2C_a_screen_actress_%28SAYRE_23748%29.jpg/1280px-Ruth_Dwyer%2C_a_screen_actress_%28SAYRE_23748%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: Ruth Dwyer Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-0ed808e9d435.jpg) Title: Ruth Dwyer Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Ruth_Dwyer_LCCN2014714636.jpg/1280px-Ruth_Dwyer_LCCN2014714636.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Still from the American comedy film The Brown Derby (1926). Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors, actresses](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-1d305cc19810.jpg) Still from the American comedy film The Brown Derby (1926). Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors, actresses — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/The_Brown_Derby_%28SAYRE_14131%29.jpg/1280px-The_Brown_Derby_%28SAYRE_14131%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Still from the film Seven Chances (1925) Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-5a26508314fc.jpg) Still from the film Seven Chances (1925) Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Seven_Chances_%28SAYRE_14342%29.jpg/1280px-Seven_Chances_%28SAYRE_14342%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruth Dwyer](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-e0fba18c87f2.jpg) Ruth Dwyer — Image via TMDB
- ![Still from the film The Reckless Age (1924). Subjects: motion pictures, actors, actresses](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-b85a53c57900.jpg) Still from the film The Reckless Age (1924). Subjects: motion pictures, actors, actresses — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Reckless_Age_%28SAYRE_14840%29.jpg/1280px-Reckless_Age_%28SAYRE_14840%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lobby card for the American comedy film His Mystery Girl (1923).](https://film.one/media/person/3850167/gallery-148dec2821e7.jpg) Lobby card for the American comedy film His Mystery Girl (1923). — Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/His_Mystery_Girl_lobby_card_2.jpg/1280px-His_Mystery_Girl_lobby_card_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ruth-dwyer