Cliff Edwards
Born: 1895-06-13 in Hannibal, Missouri, USA
Died: 1971-07-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947). His rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Pinocchio is probably his most familiar recorded legacy.
Filmography
2023
- Once Upon a Studio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (archive sound)
2003
- Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 as Robot Barber Chair (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1997
- Vaudeville as Self (archive footage)
- The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind as (voice) (archive footage)
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (singing voice)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
- I'm No Fool with Electricity as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1960
- This Is Your Life Donald Duck as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1958
- Bat Masterson as A.J. Mulcaney
- From All of Us, To All of You as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- No Time at All as Webber's Manager
1957
- You and Your Ears as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and the Living Machine as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Food as Jiminy Cricket
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Webber's Manager
- On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool in Water as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool with a Bicycle as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool as a Pedestrian as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool Having Fun as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Eyes as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1955
- I'm No Fool with Fire as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You the Human Animal as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Sense of Touch as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Five Senses as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1947
- Fun and Fancy Free as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- Hollywood Wonderland as Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
1943
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Goldie Locke
- The Ghost Ship as Unnamed Officer
- The Avenging Rider as Ike
- Salute for Three as Foggy, photographer
- Sagebrush Law as Ike
- Fighting Frontier as Ike
1942
- Seven Miles from Alcatraz as Stormy
- Riders of the Northland as Harmony Bumpas
- Sundown Jim as Stable Proprietor
- Red River Robin Hood as Ike
- Pirates of the Prairie as Ike
- Bandit Ranger as Ike
- American Empire as Runty
- Bad Men of the Hills as Harmony Haines
- Lawless Plainsmen as Harmony Stubbs
- The New Spirit as (voice) (uncredited)
- Overland to Deadwood as Harmony Hobbs
- West of Tombstone as Harmony Haines
1941
- Dumbo as Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
- The Monster and the Girl as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes
- Knockout as Sleepy
- Riders of the Badlands as Bones Malloy
- Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos as Cliff the Ranch Foreman
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Thunder Over the Prairie as Bones Malloy
- Power Dive as Squid Watkins
- International Squadron as Omaha McGrath
- Prairie Stranger as 'Bones' Mallory
1940
- Pinocchio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
- His Girl Friday as Endicott
- Friendly Neighbors as Notes
- Just a Cute Kid as Speed
- She Couldn't Say No as Banjo Page
- Millionaires in Prison as Happy
- Flowing Gold as 'Hot Rocks' Harris
- High School as "Jeff" Jefferson
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Reminiscent Soldier
- Ride, Cowboy, Ride as Hogie
- Maisie as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
- Smuggled Cargo as Professor
- The Royal Rodeo as Shorty
1938
- The Girl of the Golden West as Minstrel Joe
- The Little Adventuress as Handy
1937
- Modern Inventions as Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
- They Gave Him a Gun as Laro
- The Women Men Marry as Jerry Little
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Buzz McCreedy
- Between Two Women as Snoopy
- Saratoga as Tip
- Pacific Paradise as Himself
- Bad Guy as 'Hi-Line'
- Cinema Circus as Himself
1936
- The Man I Marry as Jerry Ridgeway
1935
- George White's 1935 Scandals as Dude
- Starlit Days at the Lido as Self
- Red Salute as P.J. Rooney
1934
- George White's Scandals as Stew Hart
1933
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self - Host
- Flying Devils as 'Screwy' Edwards
- Strange Case of Hennessy as Silo Dance
- Take a Chance as Louie Webb
1932
- Hell Divers as Baldy
- Young Bride as Pete
- Fast Life as Bumpy
1931
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Bell Hop
- Sidewalks of New York as Poggle
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Victor Lebeau
- The Great Lover as Finny
- Laughing Sinners as Mike
- Dance, Fools, Dance as Bert Scranton
- The Christmas Party as Himself
- Shipmates as Bilge
- Stepping Out as Paul Perkins
- The Prodigal as Snipe
1930
- Crazy House as Writer
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Joe Lundeen
- The Voice of Hollywood
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self - Vocalist
- Those Three French Girls as Owly
- Doughboys as Nescopeck
- Montana Moon as Froggy
- Good News as Kearney
- Way Out West as Trilby
- Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)
1929
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
- So This Is College as Windy
- Marianne as Soapy