Ruth Ford

AKA: Ruth Elizabeth Ford
2.0133

1911-07-07

Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Sanctuary
Adaptation
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {40}

Jane Karaski #1

1946-03-16 6

Strange Impersonation

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she ...
Genre :Romance, Thriller, Drama

Lucy Fenton

1942-04-01 5.5

Lady Gangster

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Secretary (uncredited)

1942-09-04 6.6

Across the Pacific

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really ...
Genre :Adventure, Thriller, Drama

Mrs. Simms

1945-04-20 4.8

Circumstantial Evidence

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sister Clotilde

1944-12-15 7

The Keys of the Kingdom

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a mor ...
Genre :Drama

Myrt - Slim's Moll

1942-07-25 5.2

Escape from Crime

An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist. ...
Genre :Crime

Janet Devon

1943-01-16 5

The Gorilla Man

A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis. ...
Genre :Thriller

Margaret Wilson

1944-08-01 5.5

Wilson

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the U ...
Genre :Drama

Estelle Channing

1942-11-07 6.3

The Hidden Hand

Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money. ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Carlotta

1972-10-19 6.2

Play It as It Lays

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, ...
Genre :Drama

Irma Hornady

1984-09-28 5.1

Too Scared to Scream

A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Pearl Dorgan

1943-01-28 6

Truck Busters

An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accide ...
Genre :Drama

Tess Torrence

1943-09-27 5.4

Adventure in Iraq

Three Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be. ...
Genre :War, Action

Ruth Gibson

1945-12-13 5.455

Woman Who Came Back

A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Irene Gordon

1942-04-11 6.5

Murder in the Big House

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy... ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance

Helene de Leon

1941-11-13 6.3

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

Beatrice Kaufman

1963-12-26 5.9

Act One

This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professio ...
Genre :Drama

Lana Shane

1943-09-18 5

Murder on the Waterfront

A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Gran

1982-08-20 6

The Eyes of the Amaryllis

In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has some strange habits, one of which is keeping a vig ...
Genre :Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy

1964-08-10 0

Screen Test [ST107]: Ruth Ford

Ruth Ford has been placed in three-quarter profile against a white background, under instructions to keep still and try not to blink. With her head held high, she maintains her pose, only occasionally ...
Genre :

Mrs. Billings

2013-10-09 5.3

Too Much Johnson

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who fle ...
Genre :Comedy

Beth Beebe

1942-02-05 6

The Man Who Returned to Life

An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Ella

1942-05-14 5

The Devil's Trail

Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Dev ...
Genre :Western

Cornelia Van Borden (uncredited)

1946-04-19 6.7

Dragonwyck

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troub ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

Nurse (uncredited)

1943-03-20 6.4

Air Force

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War, Adventure

Mrs. Gagnon

1969-06-09 0

The Tree

A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past. ...
Genre :Drama

Reba Bailey

1941-10-15 0

Roaring Frontiers

U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henc ...
Genre :Western

Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart

1942-07-25 3.5

Men of the Sky

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces ...
Genre :Drama, War

Clare Stillwell (uncredited)

1943-10-23 6.3

Princess O'Rourke

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Self - Actress (archive footage)

2014-12-12 6.7

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespea ...
Genre :Documentary

Myrtle

1942-02-12 6.389

The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mother of Accident Victim (uncredited)

1942-05-08 6.8

In This Our Life

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Rydecker

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

The Duchess

1951-12-24 8.571

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

1949-01-06 4.909

Suspense

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar All ...
Genre :Drama

Julie McCormick

1960-05-29 6.333

The Chevy Mystery Show

The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement. ...
Genre :Mystery

Calpurnia

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Julia

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Self - Mystery Guest

1950-02-02 6.9

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...
Genre :Family, Comedy