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
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (singing voice)
- Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind as (voice) (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
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 Food as Jiminy Cricket
- You and the Living Machine as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Ears as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Webber's Manager
- I'm No Fool in Water as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste 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)
- You and Your Eyes as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool Having Fun as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1955
- You the Human Animal as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool with Fire as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Five Senses as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Sense of Touch 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 Ghost Ship as Unnamed Officer
- The Avenging Rider as Ike
- Sagebrush Law as Ike
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Goldie Locke
- Fighting Frontier as Ike
- Salute for Three as Foggy, photographer
1942
- Sundown Jim as Stable Proprietor
- American Empire as Runty
- Seven Miles from Alcatraz as Stormy
- The New Spirit as (voice) (uncredited)
- Riders of the Northland as Harmony Bumpas
- Bandit Ranger as Ike
- Lawless Plainsmen as Harmony Stubbs
- Pirates of the Prairie as Ike
- Overland to Deadwood as Harmony Hobbs
- Red River Robin Hood as Ike
- Bad Men of the Hills as Harmony Haines
- West of Tombstone as Harmony Haines
1941
- Dumbo as Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Monster and the Girl as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes
- Knockout as Sleepy
- Power Dive as Squid Watkins
- International Squadron as Omaha McGrath
- Prairie Stranger as 'Bones' Mallory
- Riders of the Badlands as Bones Malloy
- Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos as Cliff the Ranch Foreman
- Thunder Over the Prairie as Bones Malloy
1940
- Pinocchio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
- His Girl Friday as Endicott
- Flowing Gold as 'Hot Rocks' Harris
- Millionaires in Prison as Happy
- Friendly Neighbors as Notes
- She Couldn't Say No as Banjo Page
- Just a Cute Kid as Speed
- High School as "Jeff" Jefferson
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Reminiscent Soldier
- Maisie as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
- Ride, Cowboy, Ride as Hogie
- 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
- Saratoga as Tip
- Pacific Paradise as Himself
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Buzz McCreedy
- They Gave Him a Gun as Laro
- Modern Inventions as Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
- Between Two Women as Snoopy
- The Women Men Marry as Jerry Little
- Bad Guy as 'Hi-Line'
- Cinema Circus as Himself
1936
- The Man I Marry as Jerry Ridgeway
1935
- Starlit Days at the Lido as Self
- George White's 1935 Scandals as Dude
- Red Salute as P.J. Rooney
1934
- George White's Scandals as Stew Hart
1933
- Take a Chance as Louie Webb
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self (Host)
- Flying Devils as 'Screwy' Edwards
- Strange Case of Hennessy as Silo Dance
1932
- Young Bride as Pete
- Hell Divers as Baldy
- Fast Life as Bumpy
1931
- Dance, Fools, Dance as Bert Scranton
- Sidewalks of New York as Poggle
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Victor Lebeau
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Bell Hop
- Laughing Sinners as Mike
- Stepping Out as Paul Perkins
- The Christmas Party as Himself
- Shipmates as Bilge
- The Great Lover as Finny
- The Prodigal as Snipe
1930
- Doughboys as Nescopeck
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Joe Lundeen
- Crazy House as Writer
- Montana Moon as Froggy
- Good News as Kearney
- Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)
- Those Three French Girls as Owly
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self - Vocalist
- The Voice of Hollywood
- Way Out West as Trilby
1929
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
- Marianne as Soapy
- So This Is College as Windy