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