Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

American recording artist; musician, singer, actor and voice actor (1895-1971)

Cliff Edwards, nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American pop singer, musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes, including "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. Later in his career, he appeared in films and did voices for animated cartoons, and is well-remembered as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 17 films (1929–1943) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 6 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1929 Marianne. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 7 reels 16mm B&W sound
1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Charles Reisner 119 min B&W
1930 CHILDREN OF PLEASURE. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 9 reels B&W
1930 DOUGHBOYS. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 9 reels B&W
1930 Remote Control ▶ Handy (Jam) Organization 65 min 16mm B&W sound
1931 DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 9 reels B&W
1931 SHIPMATES. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 8 reels B&W
1931 SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 8 reels B&W
1934 STRANGE CASE OF HENNESSY Van Beuren Corp 2 reels 16mm sound
1938 THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST. Loew's Inc. 12 reels B&W
1939 MAISIE. Loew's Inc. 7 reels B&W
1940 His Girl Friday Howard Hawks 90 min 16mm B&W
1940 Pinocchio. T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney 10 reels
1941 Prairie Stranger. Lambert Hillyer 6 reels B&W
1942 Red River Robin Hood. Lesley Selander 57 min. B&W
1943 Seven Miles From Alcatraz. Edward Dmytryk 62 min. B&W
Voice of Hollywood Number 10 1 reel 16mm Sound