Ruth Springford

Ruth Springford was a Canadian actress whose work took in radio, stage, television and film. She earned her first paid role at nine and later joined the Straw Hat Players summer stock troupe, going on to appear at Toronto's Crest Theatre in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with the first of those transferring to the Royal Alexandra Theatre. On radio, she was part of Stage, the CBC dramatic anthology produced by Andrew Allan. Her television credits included Hangin' In, A Gift to Last, The Frankie Howerd Show and Maggie Muggins, along with Jim Henson's teleplay The Cube and the movie Nellie McClung, and she appeared in the film The Changeling (1980). A longtime ACTRA member, she received the Andrew Allan Award, a 1969 Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, the John Drainie Award in 1979, an ACTRA Award for radio performance and a Dora Mavor Moore Award. She died in 2010.