Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen. Known for her nasal voice and distinctive personality, she gained international recognition and critical acclaim for film roles that continued into her seventies and eighties. Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968), Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980).
In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous plays, film scripts, and books, most notably co-writing the screenplay for the 1949 film Adam's Rib. Gordon won an Oscar, an Emmy, and two Golden Globe Awards for her acting, as well as received three Academy Award nominations for her writing.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.6137 |
| Birthday | 1896-10-30 |
| Place of Birth | Quincy, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Ruth Gordon Jones, روث گوردون, |
1971
Harold and Maude
7.601/1199
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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Harold and Maude
1968
Rosemary's Baby
7.8/4346
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the pur...
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Rosemary's Baby
1979
Scavenger Hunt
5.625/40
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or te...
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Scavenger Hunt
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7.085/59
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1940
Information Please Series 2, No. 2
10/1
This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star...
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Information Please Series 2, No. 2
1970
Where’s Poppa?
6.051/49
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he...
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Where’s Poppa?
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
6.926/27
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1978
Every Which Way but Loose
6.1/502
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora...
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Every Which Way but Loose
1984
Voyage of the Rock Aliens
4.81/42
Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee...
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens
1982
Jimmy the Kid
5.05/4
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
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Jimmy the Kid
1980
Any Which Way You Can
5.781/368
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but wh...
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Any Which Way You Can
1966
Inside Daisy Clover
5.625/56
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
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Inside Daisy Clover
1976
The Big Bus
5.332/113
A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mys...
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The Big Bus
1966
Lord Love a Duck
5.661/28
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorb...
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Lord Love a Duck
1943
Edge of Darkness
6.23/37
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...
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Edge of Darkness
1982
Don't Go to Sleep
6.513/38
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
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Don't Go to Sleep
1941
Two-Faced Woman
6.446/28
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Two-Faced Woman
1969
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
6.17/50
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
6.545/33
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1915
The Whirl of Life
5/1
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period
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The Whirl of Life
1985
Maxie
5.024/21
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20...
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Maxie
1976
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
3.654/39
Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himsel...
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
1979
Boardwalk
7.5/3
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not...
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Boardwalk
1987
The Trouble with Spies
4.675/20
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter s...
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The Trouble with Spies
1976
The Great Houdinis
6.208/12
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he...
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The Great Houdinis
1984
Delta Pi
4/11
A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest.
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Delta Pi
1973
Isn't It Shocking?
6.35/10
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
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Isn't It Shocking?
1977
The Prince of Central Park
6/3
A lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there after...
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The Prince of Central Park
1966
Blithe Spirit
7/1
The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to condu...
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Blithe Spirit
1980
Hardhat & Legs
6.333/3
A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.
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Hardhat & Legs
1978
Perfect Gentlemen
4.75/4
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
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Perfect Gentlemen
1987
The Ten-Year Lunch
6.545/11
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table grou...
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The Ten-Year Lunch
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.75/4
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
1980
My Bodyguard
6.335/127
Clifford Peache, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classma...
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My Bodyguard
1954
The Matchmaker
0/0
Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?
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The Matchmaker
1984
The Secret World of the Very Young
0/0
The world of pre-school youngsters is explored through songs and skits.
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The Secret World of the Very Young
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
6/1
An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.
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