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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

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

Way Out West

1930
as Trilby

Stepping Out

1931
as Paul Perkins

Overland to Deadwood

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

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)

Modern Inventions

1937
as Robot Barber Chair

Saratoga

1937
as Tip

Hollywood Wonderland

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

Cinema Circus

1937
as Himself

Sundown Jim

1942
as Stable Proprietor

Sagebrush Law

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

The Monster and the Girl

1941
as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes

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

The New Spirit

1942
as Singing Voice

High School

1940
as "Jeff" Jefferson

Riders of the Badlands

1941
as Bones Mallory

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

International Squadron

1941
as Omaha McGrath

Maisie

1939
as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand

Breakdowns of 1941

1941
as Cliff Edwards

Montana Moon

1930
as Froggy

Lord Byron of Broadway

1930
as Joe Lundeen

Power Dive

1941
as Squid Watkins

Good News

1930
as Kearney

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937
as Buzz McCreedy

The Man I Marry

1936
as Jerry Ridgeway

Marianne

1929
as Soapy

The Royal Rodeo

1939
as Shorty

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1931
as Victor Lebeau

Young Bride

1932
as Pete

Smuggled Cargo

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

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

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