Cliff Edwards
Acting • Born 1895-06-13 – Died 1971-07-17
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
120 credits
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Reminiscent Soldier
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Endicott
Pinocchio
Movie • 1940
Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
Dumbo
Movie • 1941
Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
American Empire
Movie • 1942
Runty
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie • 1929
Self
The Ghost Ship
Movie • 1943
Unnamed Officer
The Voice of Hollywood
Movie • 1930
The Girl of the Golden West
Movie • 1938
Minstrel Joe
The Falcon Strikes Back
Movie • 1943
Goldie Locke
Saratoga
Movie • 1937
Tip
The New Spirit
Movie • 1942
(voice) (uncredited)
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Movie • 1931
Bell Hop
Fun and Fancy Free
Movie • 1947
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Maisie
Movie • 1939
Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Movie • 1933
Self (Host)
Sidewalks of New York
Movie • 1931
Poggle
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Victor Lebeau
Modern Inventions
Movie • 1937
Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
Movie • 1995
(voice) (archive footage)
Laughing Sinners
Movie • 1931
Mike
Doughboys
Movie • 1930
Nescopeck
Montana Moon
Movie • 1930
Froggy
Lord Byron of Broadway
Movie • 1930
Joe Lundeen
Red River Robin Hood
Movie • 1942
Ike
Seven Miles from Alcatraz
Movie • 1942
Stormy
They Gave Him a Gun
Movie • 1937
Laro
Cinema Circus
Movie • 1937
Himself
Dance, Fools, Dance
Movie • 1931
Bert Scranton
George White's Scandals
Movie • 1934
Stew Hart
Flowing Gold
Movie • 1940
'Hot Rocks' Harris
The Great Lover
Movie • 1931
Finny
Flying Devils
Movie • 1933
'Screwy' Edwards
Way Out West
Movie • 1930
Trilby
Fighting Frontier
Movie • 1943
Ike
Knockout
Movie • 1941
Sleepy
Red Salute
Movie • 1935
P.J. Rooney
Hell Divers
Movie • 1932
Baldy
The Women Men Marry
Movie • 1937
Jerry Little
She Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1940
Banjo Page
George White's 1935 Scandals
Movie • 1935
Dude
So This Is College
Movie • 1929
Windy
Stepping Out
Movie • 1931
Paul Perkins
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Movie • 1995
Self (singing voice)
Between Two Women
Movie • 1937
Snoopy
Once Upon a Studio
Movie • 2023
Jiminy Cricket (voice) (archive sound)
Bad Guy
Movie • 1937
'Hi-Line'
Young Bride
Movie • 1932
Pete
High School
Movie • 1940
"Jeff" Jefferson
Fast Life
Movie • 1932
Bumpy
Good News
Movie • 1930
Kearney
Millionaires in Prison
Movie • 1940
Happy
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie • 1937
Buzz McCreedy
Crazy House
Movie • 1930
Writer
The Christmas Party
Movie • 1931
Himself
The Royal Rodeo
Movie • 1939
Shorty
The Man I Marry
Movie • 1936
Jerry Ridgeway
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Those Three French Girls
Movie • 1930
Owly
No Time at All
Movie • 1958
Webber's Manager
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage)
Power Dive
Movie • 1941
Squid Watkins
The Prodigal
Movie • 1931
Snipe
Overland to Deadwood
Movie • 1942
Harmony Hobbs
Salute for Three
Movie • 1943
Foggy, photographer
Smuggled Cargo
Movie • 1939
Professor
Riders of the Badlands
Movie • 1941
Bones Malloy
Pirates of the Prairie
Movie • 1942
Ike
Thunder Over the Prairie
Movie • 1941
Bones Malloy
Prairie Stranger
Movie • 1941
'Bones' Mallory
Riders of the Northland
Movie • 1942
Harmony Bumpas
Marianne
Movie • 1929
Soapy
I'm No Fool Having Fun
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool with Fire
Movie • 1955
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool with Electricity
Movie • 1973
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool with a Bicycle
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool as a Pedestrian
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and the Living Machine
Movie • 1957
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Ears
Movie • 1957
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Eyes
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
I'm No Fool in Water
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Sense of Touch
Movie • 1955
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Five Senses
Movie • 1955
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You the Human Animal
Movie • 1955
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
You and Your Food
Movie • 1957
Jiminy Cricket
Just a Cute Kid
Movie • 1940
Speed
Bandit Ranger
Movie • 1942
Ike
Sagebrush Law
Movie • 1943
Ike
West of Tombstone
Movie • 1942
Harmony Haines
The Avenging Rider
Movie • 1943
Ike
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie • 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Friendly Neighbors
Movie • 1940
Notes
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Movie • 1960
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Take a Chance
Movie • 1933
Louie Webb
Bad Men of the Hills
Movie • 1942
Harmony Haines
Sundown Jim
Movie • 1942
Stable Proprietor
Lawless Plainsmen
Movie • 1942
Harmony Stubbs
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1937
Self
Hollywood Wonderland
Movie • 1947
Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
From All of Us, To All of You
Movie • 1958
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Movie • 1939
Hogie
Children of Pleasure
Movie • 1930
Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Shipmates
Movie • 1931
Bilge
Starlit Days at the Lido
Movie • 1935
Self
International Squadron
Movie • 1941
Omaha McGrath
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Movie • 1941
Cliff the Ranch Foreman
The Monster and the Girl
Movie • 1941
Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Movie • 2003
Robot Barber Chair (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
Movie • 1956
Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Strange Case of Hennessy
Movie • 1933
Silo Dance
Pacific Paradise
Movie • 1937
Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Movie • 1930
Self - Vocalist
The Little Adventuress
Movie • 1938
Handy
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
A.J. Mulcaney
The Cliff Edwards Show
TV • 1949
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Webber's Manager