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
- 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)
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
- I'm No Fool with a Bicycle 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 in Water as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool Having Fun as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- You and Your Eyes as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- I'm No Fool as a Pedestrian as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
1955
- You and Your Five Senses as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- 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)
1947
- Fun and Fancy Free as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
- Hollywood Wonderland as Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
1943
- Fighting Frontier as Ike
- The Ghost Ship as Unnamed Officer
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Goldie Locke
- Salute for Three as Foggy, photographer
- The Avenging Rider as Ike
- Sagebrush Law as Ike
1942
- Bandit Ranger as Ike
- Lawless Plainsmen as Harmony Stubbs
- Riders of the Northland as Harmony Bumpas
- Sundown Jim as Stable Proprietor
- Seven Miles from Alcatraz as Stormy
- Pirates of the Prairie as Ike
- The New Spirit as (voice) (uncredited)
- American Empire as Runty
- West of Tombstone as Harmony Haines
- Bad Men of the Hills as Harmony Haines
- Overland to Deadwood as Harmony Hobbs
- Red River Robin Hood as Ike
1941
- Dumbo as Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
- International Squadron as Omaha McGrath
- Knockout as Sleepy
- The Monster and the Girl as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes
- Thunder Over the Prairie as Bones Malloy
- Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos as Cliff the Ranch Foreman
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Power Dive as Squid Watkins
- Riders of the Badlands as Bones Malloy
- Prairie Stranger as 'Bones' Mallory
1940
- Pinocchio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
- High School as "Jeff" Jefferson
- Flowing Gold as 'Hot Rocks' Harris
- Millionaires in Prison as Happy
- His Girl Friday as Endicott
- Just a Cute Kid as Speed
- She Couldn't Say No as Banjo Page
- Friendly Neighbors as Notes
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Reminiscent Soldier
- Maisie as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
- Smuggled Cargo as Professor
- Ride, Cowboy, Ride as Hogie
- The Royal Rodeo as Shorty
1938
- The Girl of the Golden West as Minstrel Joe
1937
- Bad Guy as 'Hi-Line'
- The Women Men Marry as Jerry Little
- Between Two Women as Snoopy
- Modern Inventions as Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bad Man of Brimstone as Buzz McCreedy
- Pacific Paradise as Himself
- They Gave Him a Gun as Laro
- Saratoga as Tip
- The Romance of Celluloid as Self
- Cinema Circus as Himself
1936
- The Man I Marry as Jerry Ridgeway
1935
- Red Salute as P.J. Rooney
- George White's 1935 Scandals as Dude
- Starlit Days at the Lido as Self
1934
- George White's Scandals as Stew Hart
1933
- Flying Devils as 'Screwy' Edwards
- Take a Chance as Louie Webb
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self
- Strange Case of Hennessy as Silo Dance
1932
- Hell Divers as Baldy
- Young Bride as Pete
- Fast Life as Bumpy
1931
- Laughing Sinners as Mike
- Stepping Out as Paul Perkins
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Victor Lebeau
- The Prodigal as Snipe
- The Christmas Party as Himself
- Shipmates as Bilge
- The Great Lover as Finny
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Bell Hop
- Sidewalks of New York as Poggle
- Dance, Fools, Dance as Bert Scranton
1930
- Good News as Kearney
- Doughboys as Nescopeck
- Crazy House as Writer
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self - Vocalist
- Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)
- Way Out West as Trilby
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Joe Lundeen
- Those Three French Girls as Owly
- Montana Moon as Froggy
- The Voice of Hollywood
1929
- Marianne as Soapy
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
- So This Is College as Windy