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Cliff Edwards

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.

Aliases
  • Clifton Avon Edwards
  • Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards
  • Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards
  • Ukulele Ike
  • Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards
English
Filmography

Pinocchio

1940
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)

Dumbo

1941
as Jim Crow (voice)

Gone with the Wind

1939
as Reminiscent Soldier

I'm No fool As A Pedestrian

1956
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)

West of Tombstone

1942
as Harmony Haines

Flowing Gold

1940
as 'Hot Rocks' Harris

Salute for Three

1943
as Foggy

Way Out West

1930
as Trilby

Betty Boop: The Queen of Cartoons

1995
as Cliff Edwards

Stepping Out

1931
as Paul Perkins

Overland to Deadwood

1942
as Harmony Hobbs (as Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards)

Sidewalks of New York

1931
as Poggle

That's Entertainment! III

1994
as (archive footage)

His Girl Friday

1940
as Endicott

From All of Us to All of You

1958
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)

Millionaires in Prison

1940
as Happy

Modern Inventions

1937
as Robot Barber Chair

The Romance of Celluloid

1937
as Himself

Saratoga

1937
as Tip

Hollywood Wonderland

1947
as Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride" (1939)) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cinema Circus

1937
as Himself

Friendly Neighbors

1940
as Notes

Sundown Jim

1942
as Stable Proprietor

American Empire

1942
as Runty

Those Three French Girls

1930
as Owly

Red River Robin Hood

1942
as Ike

Sagebrush Law

1943
as Ike (as Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards)

The Nature of Things: The Elephant

1956
as Jiminy Cricket

The Monster and the Girl

1941
as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes

They Gave Him a Gun

1937
as Laro

Riders of the Northland

1942
as Harmony Bumpas

Fun and Fancy Free

1947
as Jiminy Cricket

Fun and Fancy Free

1947
as Willie the Giant

Dance, Fools, Dance

1931
as Bert Scranton

Pirates of the Prairie

1942
as Ike

The New Spirit

1942
as Singing Voice

High School

1940
as "Jeff" Jefferson

Riders of the Badlands

1941
as Bones Mallory

George White's 1935 Scandals

1935
as Dude

The Women Men Marry

1937
as Jerry Little

Red Salute

1935
as P.J. Rooney

Lawless Plainsmen

1942
as Harmony Stubbs (as Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards)

Bad Men of the Hills

1942
as Harmony Haines

So This Is College

1929
as Windy

International Squadron

1941
as Omaha McGrath

Laughing Sinners

1931
as Mike

Maisie

1939
as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand

Breakdowns of 1941

1941
as Cliff Edwards

Montana Moon

1930
as Froggy

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

1931
as Bell Hop

Lord Byron of Broadway

1930
as Joe Lundeen

Power Dive

1941
as Squid Watkins

The Girl of the Golden West

1938
as Minstrel Joe

Good News

1930
as Kearney

Between Two Women

1937
as Snoopy

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937
as Buzz McCreedy

The Man I Marry

1936
as Jerry Ridgeway

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

1929
as Himself

Marianne

1929
as Soapy

The Royal Rodeo

1939
as Shorty

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1931
as Victor Lebeau

Fighting Frontier

1943
as Ike

Young Bride

1932
as Pete

Smuggled Cargo

1939
as Professor (as Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards)

Ride, Cowboy, Ride

1939
as Hogie

That's Entertainment!

1974
as Clip from 'Hollywood Revue' (archive footage)

Prairie Stranger

1941
as 'Bones' Mallory

Hell Divers

1932
as Baldy

Shipmates

1931
as Bilge

Doughboys

1930
as Nescopeck

Seven Miles from Alcatraz

1942
as Stormy

The Great Lover

1931
as Finny

Thunder Over the Prairie

1941
as 'Bones' Malloy

The Falcon Strikes Back

1943
as Goldie Locke

Guest Star

Episode Bat Masterson
The Death of Bat Masterson 		1959
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Modern Inventions 		1937