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