---
name: "Ruth Warrick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-warrick"
fi1m_id: "ruth-warrick"
imdb_id: "nm0913095"
tmdb_id: 11026
wikidata_id: "Q456375"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 June 1916"
died: "15 January 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T06:31:04.953620+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 Warrick

## Identity

Ruth Warrick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ruth-warrick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ruth-warrick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0913095
- **TMDB ID:** 11026
- **Wikidata ID:** Q456375
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Warrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456375, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913095/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11026

Actor. Born 29 June 1916 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA. Died 15 January 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 June 1916, Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 15 January 2005
- **Also known as:** Ruth Elizabeth Warrick
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Warrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456375, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913095/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11026

## Biography

Ruth Warrick was an American actress and singer. She made her film debut as Emily Norton Kane, the first wife of the title character, in Orson Welles's *Citizen Kane* (1941). She had trained as a singer and worked in radio before Welles selected her for the role after seeing a photograph and hearing her voice.

Warrick appeared in further films including *Journey into Fear* (1943), *Song of the South* (1946) and *Daisy Kenyon* (1947). She became best known for her long-running role as the matriarch Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on the soap opera *All My Children*, which she played from the show's debut in 1970 until shortly before her death. She received Emmy nominations for her television work.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Citizen Kane* (1941), Fi1m 93, as Emily Norton Kane — [page](https://film.one/film/citizen-kane.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Peyton Place: The Next Generation* (1985), as Hannah Cord
- *Deathmask* (1984), as Beatrice VandenBerg
- *The Returning* (1983), as Grace
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Joan Heinsley
- *All My Children* (1970), series, as Phoebe Tyler
- *The Great Bank Robbery* (1969), as Mrs. Applebee
- *How to Steal the World* (1968), as Alice Garrow
- *Ride Beyond Vengeance* (1966), as Aunt Gussie
- *A Letter to Nancy* (1965), as Mrs. Helen Reed
- *Daniel Boone* (1964), series, as Wise Woman
- *Peyton Place* (1964), series, as Hannah Cord
- *Father of the Bride* (1961), series, as Eleanor "Ellie" Banks
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Mrs. Winlock
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, as Clara Benteen
- *Roogie's Bump* (1954), as Mrs. Rigsby
- *Cavalcade of America* (1952), series, as Lydia Darragh
- *Short Short Dramas* (1952), series, Actor
- *One Too Many* (1950), as Helen Mason
- *Let's Dance* (1950), as Carola Everett
- *Three Husbands* (1950), as Jane Evans
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Anna Carmody
- *Second Chance* (1950), as Emily Dean
- *Beauty on Parade* (1950), as Marian Medford
- *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, as Marion Shaw
- *The Great Dan Patch* (1949), as Ruth Treadwell
- *Make Believe Ballroom* (1949), as Liza Lee
- *Studio One* (1948), series, Actor
- *Arch of Triumph* (1948), as Kate Bergstroem
- *Daisy Kenyon* (1947), as Lucille O'Mara
- *Driftwood* (1947), as Susan Moore
- *Swell Guy* (1946), as Ann Duncan
- *Song of the South* (1946), as Sally
- *Perilous Holiday* (1946), as Agnes Stuart
- *China Sky* (1945), as Dr. Sara Durand
- *Guest in the House* (1944), as Ann Proctor
- *Secret Command* (1944), as Lea Damaron
- *Mr. Winkle Goes to War* (1944), as Amy Winkle
- *The Iron Major* (1943), as Florence Ayres Cavanaugh
- *Petticoat Larceny* (1943), as Pat Mitchell
- *Forever and a Day* (1943), as Lesley Trimble
- *Journey into Fear* (1943), as Mrs. Stephanie Graham
- *Obliging Young Lady* (1942), as Linda Norton
- *The Corsican Brothers* (1942), as Countess Isabelle Gravini
- *Citizen Kane* (1941), as Emily Norton Kane — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/citizen-kane.md)

## Gallery

- ![Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-189940e3d714.jpg) Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane — RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Citizen-Kane-Collins-Welles.jpg/1280px-Citizen-Kane-Collins-Welles.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lobby card for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-45e64c49ae22.jpg) Lobby card for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane — RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Citizen-Kane-LC-3.jpg/1280px-Citizen-Kane-LC-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lobby card for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-a12e2dfad243.jpg) Lobby card for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane — RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Citizen-Kane-LC-4.jpg/1280px-Citizen-Kane-LC-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane Image is marked CK-30 at lower right](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-a04fedae253f.jpg) Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane Image is marked CK-30 at lower right — RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Citizen-Kane-Warrick-Bupp.jpg/1280px-Citizen-Kane-Warrick-Bupp.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruth Warrick](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-9fb87b130fac.jpg) Ruth Warrick — Image via TMDB
- ![Ruth Warrick](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-d8b173b6019c.jpg) Ruth Warrick — Image via TMDB
- ![Ruth Warrick](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-f278ad24b415.jpg) Ruth Warrick — Image via TMDB
- ![Screenshot of w:Ruth Warrick from the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-2ccef740fa8f.jpg) Screenshot of w:Ruth Warrick from the Citizen Kane trailer (1940) — RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Citizen-Kane-Warrick.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane](https://film.one/media/person/59042/gallery-89ff25a9661d.jpg) Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane — RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Citizen-Kane-Wedding-1.jpg/1280px-Citizen-Kane-Wedding-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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