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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 06/29/1915
Birthplace: St Joseph, Missouri, USA
Death Date: 01/15/2005
biography
An attractive, talented and intelligent brunette actor, Ruth Warrick has played leading roles with some regularity during her half century career in TV, theater and film. She is, however, perhaps most associated with a series of character roles as middle to upper-class wives. Many were sympathetic, but more vivid were the ones in which her characters were practical, determined and conventional to the point of being frosty and forbidding.A promotional tour brought Warrick from her native Kansas, where she had begun acting, to New York. She met "boy wonder" Orson Welles, promptly became involved
Moved to Kansas City, MO while a high school student
1937
Played the sister of the dead soldier in "Bury the Dead" at the Center Community Theater in Kansas City, MO
1939
Participated in an early in-house test of television held in the RCA Building in New York
1941
Made feature film debut in "Citizen Kane"
1946
Supplied one of the voices for the Disney animated feature, "Song of the South"; also marked Warrick's last film at RKO, which distributed Disney productions
