Birthday
1895/06/13
Day of death
1971/07/17 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Hannibal, Missouri, USA
Also know as
Clifton Avon Edwards, Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards, Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards, Ukulele Ike, Ukelele Ike, Clifton Avon "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 Fanc...Read more
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Reminiscent Soldier
(1940) His Girl Friday
as Endicott
(1940) Pinocchio
as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
(1941) Dumbo
as Dandy Crow (voice) (uncredited)
(1942) American Empire
as Runty
(1929) The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self
(1943) The Ghost Ship
as Unnamed Officer
(1930) The Voice of Hollywood
as ---
(1938) The Girl of the Golden West
as Minstrel Joe
(1943) The Falcon Strikes Back
as Goldie Locke
(1937) Saratoga
as Tip
(1942) The New Spirit
as (voice) (uncredited)
(1931) Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
as Bell Hop
(1947) Fun and Fancy Free
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1939) Maisie
as Shorty Miller, Ranch Hand
(1933) Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
as Self
(1931) Sidewalks of New York
as Poggle
(1931) The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Victor Lebeau
(1937) Modern Inventions
as Robot Barber Chair (voice) (uncredited)
(1995) Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
as (voice) (archive footage)
(1931) Laughing Sinners
as Mike
(1930) Doughboys
as Nescopeck
(1930) Montana Moon
as Froggy
(1930) Lord Byron of Broadway
as Joe Lundeen
(1942) Red River Robin Hood
as Ike
(1942) Seven Miles from Alcatraz
as Stormy
(1937) They Gave Him a Gun
as Laro
(1937) Cinema Circus
as Himself
(1931) Dance, Fools, Dance
as Bert Scranton
(1934) George White's Scandals
as Stew Hart
(1940) Flowing Gold
as 'Hot Rocks' Harris
(1931) The Great Lover
as Finny
(1933) Flying Devils
as 'Screwy' Edwards
(1930) Way Out West
as Trilby
(1943) Fighting Frontier
as Ike
(1941) Knockout
as Sleepy
(1935) Red Salute
as P.J. Rooney
(1932) Hell Divers
as Baldy
(1937) The Women Men Marry
as Jerry Little
(1940) She Couldn't Say No
as Banjo Page
(1935) George White's 1935 Scandals
as Dude
(1929) So This Is College
as Windy
(1931) Stepping Out
as Paul Perkins
(1995) Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (singing voice)
(1937) Between Two Women
as Snoopy
(2023) Once Upon a Studio
as Jiminy Cricket (voice) (archive footage)
(1937) Bad Guy
as 'Hi-Line'
(1932) Young Bride
as Pete
(1940) High School
as "Jeff" Jefferson
(1932) Fast Life
as Bumpy
(1930) Good News
as Kearney
(1940) Millionaires in Prison
as Happy
(1937) The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Buzz McCreedy
(1930) Crazy House
as Writer
(1931) The Christmas Party
as Himself
(1939) The Royal Rodeo
as Shorty
(1936) The Man I Marry
as Jerry Ridgeway
(1997) The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
as Self (archive footage)
(1930) Those Three French Girls
as Owly
(1958) No Time at All
as Webber's Manager
(1974) That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
(1941) Power Dive
as Squid Watkins
(1931) The Prodigal
as Snipe
(1942) Overland to Deadwood
as Harmony Hobbs
(1943) Salute for Three
as Foggy, photographer
(1939) Smuggled Cargo
as Professor
(1941) Riders of the Badlands
as Bones Malloy
(1942) Pirates of the Prairie
as Ike
(1941) Thunder Over the Prairie
as Bones Malloy
(1941) Prairie Stranger
as 'Bones' Mallory
(1942) Riders of the Northland
as Harmony Bumpas
(1929) Marianne
as Soapy
(1956) I'm No Fool Having Fun
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1955) I'm No Fool with Fire
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1973) I'm No Fool with Electricity
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1956) I'm No Fool with a Bicycle
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1956) I'm No Fool as a Pedestrian
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1956) You and Your Eyes
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1957) You and the Living Machine
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1955) You the Human Animal
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1957) You and Your Ears
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1956) I'm No Fool in Water
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1956) You and Your Senses of Smell and Taste
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1957) You and Your Food
as Jiminy Cricket
(1955) You and Your Sense of Touch
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1955) You and Your Five Senses
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1940) Just a Cute Kid
as Speed
(1942) Bandit Ranger
as Ike
(1943) Sagebrush Law
as Ike
(1942) West of Tombstone
as Harmony Haines
(1943) The Avenging Rider
as Ike
(1941) Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1940) Friendly Neighbors
as Notes
(1960) This Is Your Life Donald Duck
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1933) Take a Chance
as Louie Webb
(1942) Bad Men of the Hills
as Harmony Haines
(1942) Sundown Jim
as Stable Proprietor
(1942) Lawless Plainsmen
as Harmony Stubbs
(1937) The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
(1947) Hollywood Wonderland
as Saloon Singer (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
(1958) From All of Us to All of You
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1939) Ride, Cowboy, Ride
as Hogie
(1930) Children of Pleasure
as Radio Performer Cliff (uncredited)
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) Shipmates
as Bilge
(1935) Starlit Days at the Lido
as Self
(1941) International Squadron
as Omaha McGrath
(1941) Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
as Cliff the Ranch Foreman
(1941) The Monster and the Girl
as Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes
(2003) Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
as Robot Barber Chair (segment "Modern Inventions") (archive sound)
(1956) On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
(1933) Strange Case of Hennessy
as Silo Dance
(1937) Pacific Paradise
as Himself
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as ---
(1958) Bat Masterson
as A.J. Mulcaney
(1949) The Cliff Edwards Show
as ---
(1956) Playhouse 90
as Webber's Manager