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name: "Ruth Ford"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 July 1911"
died: "12 August 2009"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:17:23.730752+00:00"
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# Ruth Ford

Actor. Born 7 July 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA. Died 12 August 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 July 1911, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
- **Died:** 12 August 2009
- **Also known as:** Ruth Elizabeth Ford
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ford, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460279, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285864/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106583

## Biography

Ruth Ford (1911–2009) was an American actress and model. Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, she studied at the University of Mississippi before joining Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre in the late 1930s. She appeared in Welles’s film Too Much Johnson (1938) and moved to Hollywood in the early 1940s, where she took small and uncredited parts in features including Air Force (1943) and Across the Pacific (1942).

Her credited film roles include Margaret Wilson in Wilson (1944), Sister Clotilde in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) and Cornelia Van Borden in Dragonwyck (1946). She later returned to New York and built a stage career with Broadway appearances in plays such as Requiem for a Nun (1959), written for her by William Faulkner. Ford was married to actors Peter van Eyck and Zachary Scott, and her brother was the writer and artist Charles Henri Ford.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wilson* (1944), Fi1m 61, as Margaret Wilson — [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Too Much Johnson* (2013), as Mrs. Billings (uncredited)
- *Too Scared to Scream* (1984), as Irma Hornady
- *The Eyes of the Amaryllis* (1982), as Gran
- *Play It as It Lays* (1972), as Carlotta
- *The Tree* (1969), as Mrs. Gagnon
- *13 Most Beautiful Women* (1964), Actor
- *Screen Test [ST107]: Ruth Ford* (1964), Actor
- *Act One* (1963), as Beatrice Kaufman
- *Sanctuary* (1961), Adaptation
- *The Chevy Mystery Show* (1960), series, as Julie McCormick
- *Naked City* (1958), series, as Mrs. Rydecker
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as The Duchess
- *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Calpurnia, Julia
- *Dragonwyck* (1946), as Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)
- *Strange Impersonation* (1946), as Jane Karaski #1
- *Woman Who Came Back* (1945), as Ruth Gibson
- *Circumstantial Evidence* (1945), as Mrs. Simms
- *The Keys of the Kingdom* (1944), as Sister Clotilde
- *Wilson* (1944), as Margaret Wilson — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)
- *Princess O'Rourke* (1943), as Clare Stillwell (uncredited)
- *Adventure in Iraq* (1943), as Tess Torrence
- *Murder on the Waterfront* (1943), as Lana Shane
- *Air Force* (1943), as Nurse (uncredited)
- *Truck Busters* (1943), as Pearl Dorgan
- *The Gorilla Man* (1943), as Janet Devon
- *The Hidden Hand* (1942), as Estelle Channing
- *Across the Pacific* (1942), as Secretary (uncredited)
- *Escape from Crime* (1942), as Myrt - Slim's Moll
- *Men of the Sky* (1942), as Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart
- *The Devil's Trail* (1942), as Ella
- *In This Our Life* (1942), as Mother of Accident Victim (uncredited)
- *Murder in the Big House* (1942), as Irene Gordon
- *Lady Gangster* (1942), as Lucy Fenton
- *The Lady Is Willing* (1942), as Myrtle
- *The Man Who Returned to Life* (1942), as Beth Beebe
- *Secrets of the Lone Wolf* (1941), as Helene de Leon
- *Roaring Frontiers* (1941), as Reba Bailey

## Gallery

- ![Ruth Ford](https://film.one/media/person/1234763/gallery-87dda1a7d546.jpg) Ruth Ford — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Ruth_Ford%2C_photographed_by_Carl_Van_Vechten%2C_1947.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Fashion designer Pierre Balmain fitting haute couture gown on actress Ruth Ford. Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, on 9 November 1947.](https://film.one/media/person/1234763/gallery-1be636c259d1.jpg) Fashion designer Pierre Balmain fitting haute couture gown on actress Ruth Ford. Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, on 9 November 1947. — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Pierre_Balmain_and_Ruth_Ford%2C_photographed_by_Carl_Van_Vechten%2C_November_9%2C_1947.jpg/1280px-Pierre_Balmain_and_Ruth_Ford%2C_photographed_by_Carl_Van_Vechten%2C_November_9%2C_1947.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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