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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-06-13 (129 years old)

Place of Birth

Hannibal, Missouri, USA

Cliff Edwards

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.

Known For

Acting

2023

Once Upon a Studio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (archive footage)

2003

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 as Robot Barber Chair (segment "Modern Inventions") (archive sound)

1997

1995

Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind as (voice) (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (singing voice)

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

No Time at All as Webber's Manager
From All of Us to All of You as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Bat Masterson as A.J. Mulcaney

1957

You and the Living Machine as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Ears as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Food as Jiminy Cricket

1956

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)
You and Your Eyes as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool in Water as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Playhouse 90 as Webber's Manager

1955

I'm No Fool with Fire as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Sense of Touch as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Five Senses as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You the Human Animal as Jiminy Cricket (voice)

1954

1949

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 Falcon Strikes Back as Goldie Locke
Salute for Three as Foggy, photographer

1942

The New Spirit as (voice) (uncredited)
Overland to Deadwood as Harmony Hobbs
Riders of the Northland as Harmony Bumpas
West of Tombstone as Harmony Haines
Bad Men of the Hills as Harmony Haines
Sundown Jim as Stable Proprietor
Lawless Plainsmen as Harmony Stubbs

1941

Dumbo as Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Knockout as Sleepy
Power Dive as Squid Watkins
Riders of the Badlands as Bones Malloy
Thunder Over the Prairie as Bones Malloy
Prairie Stranger as 'Bones' Mallory
Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
International Squadron as Omaha McGrath
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos as Cliff the Ranch Foreman
The Monster and the Girl as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes

1940

His Girl Friday as Endicott
Pinocchio as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
Flowing Gold as 'Hot Rocks' Harris
She Couldn't Say No as Banjo Page
High School as "Jeff" Jefferson

1939

Gone with the Wind as Reminiscent Soldier
Maisie as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
The Royal Rodeo as Shorty
Smuggled Cargo as Professor

1938

1937

Saratoga as Tip
Modern Inventions as Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
Cinema Circus as Himself
The Women Men Marry as Jerry Little
Bad Guy as 'Hi-Line'
The Bad Man of Brimstone as Buzz McCreedy
Pacific Paradise as Himself

1936

The Man I Marry as Jerry Ridgeway

1935

Red Salute as P.J. Rooney

1934

1933

Flying Devils as 'Screwy' Edwards
Take a Chance as Louie Webb

1932

Hell Divers as Baldy
Young Bride as Pete
Fast Life as Bumpy

1931

Dance, Fools, Dance as Bert Scranton
Stepping Out as Paul Perkins
The Prodigal as Snipe
Shipmates as Bilge

1930

Doughboys as Nescopeck
Montana Moon as Froggy
Lord Byron of Broadway as Joe Lundeen
Way Out West as Trilby
Good News as Kearney
Crazy House as Writer
Children of Pleasure as Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)

1929

Marianne as Soapy