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name: "Ruth Tobey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-tobey"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 August 1929"
died: "15 April 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:25:38.508279+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."
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# Ruth Tobey

Actor. Born 30 August 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 15 April 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 August 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 15 April 2008
- **Also known as:** Ruth Toby
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94649519, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33035

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Our Town*](https://film.one/film/our-town.md) (72)

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## Biography

Ruth Tobey was an American actress. Born on 30 August 1929 in Los Angeles, California, she appeared in films from the late 1930s to the late 1940s, often in supporting or uncredited juvenile roles. She was also credited as Ruth Toby in some early work.

Her credits include the role of Rebecca Gibbs in *Our Town* (1940), Bernadine Dodd in *Janie* (1944) and *Janie Gets Married* (1946), and an uncredited part in *I Remember Mama* (1948). She died on 15 April 2008 in California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Our Town* (1940), Fi1m 72, as Rebecca Gibbs — [page](https://film.one/film/our-town.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *I Remember Mama* (1948), as Girl (uncredited)
- *Janie Gets Married* (1946), as Bernadine Dodd
- *Delightfully Dangerous* (1945), as Molly Bradley
- *Janie* (1944), as Bernadine Dodd
- *Calling Dr. Gillespie* (1942), as Susan Prentiss
- *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), as Betty Regan (uncredited)
- *Baby Blues* (1941), as Gladys Gubitosi
- *Bitter Sweet* (1940), as Market Keeper's Daughter (uncredited)
- *Knute Rockne All American* (1940), as Isobel (uncredited)
- *Our Town* (1940), as Rebecca Gibbs — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/our-town.md)
- *And One Was Beautiful* (1940), as Zillah
- *Four Wives* (1939), as Mathilde (uncredited)

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