Cliff Edwards

'Ukulele Ike'

Filmography

 

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Sunflower Sue (1924) (Silent film)
Singing 'Half Way To Heaven' & 'Good Little Bad Little You' (1928)  
Singing 'Oh What A Night For Spooning' & 'Oh Baby Don't We Get Along?' (1928)  
They Learned About Women (1929) Singing 'Harlem Madness' (out of vision)
Marianne (1929) As 'Soapy' Soapstone Ike sang 4 songs
Hollywood Review (1929) Introduces 'Singing In The Rain'
So This is College (1929) As 'Windy' Sang 'Sophomore Prom'
Happy Days (1929) Alternative title for above (as above)
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) As 'Joe' Sang 2 songs
What Price Melody? (1930) Alternative title for above (as above)
Montana Moon (1930) As 'Froggy' With J Crawford Sang 2 songs
The Voice of Hollywood #10 (1930) Didn't sing
Good News (1930) As 'Pooch' Kearney
Crazy House (1930)  
Doughboys (1930) As 'Nescopeck' With Keaton sang 2 songs
The Big Shot (1930) Alternative title for above (as above)
Forward March (GB title) (1930) Alternative title for above (as above)
Dogway Melody (1930) Sang 'Singing In The Rain'
Great Day (1930) Film was cancelled
Children Of Pleasure (1930) As himself (uncredited)
Those Three French Girls (1930) As 'Owly'
Way Out West (1930) As 'Trilby' Sang 'Singing A Song To The Stars'
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) (MGM) As 'Bert Scranton' With Crawford & Gable
The Southerner (1931) As 'Snipe' a tramp Didn't sing
The Prodigal (1931) Alternative title for above (as above)
The Great Lover (1931) As 'Finney'
Shipmates (1931) As 'Bilge'
Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath (1931) As bellhop With Buster Keaton Didn't sing
Romeo In Pajamas (GB title) (1931) Alternative title for above (as above)
Laughing Sinners (1931) (MGM) As 'Mike' With Joan Crawford & Clark Gable
Complete Surrender (USA title) (1931) Alternative title for above (as above)
Sidewalks of New York (1931) As 'Poggie' With Buster Keaton Didn't sing
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) As 'Victor Lebeau' Didn't sing
The Lullaby (GB title) (1931) Alternative title for above (as above)
The Christmas Party (1931) As himself (uncredited)
A Christmas Story Alternative title for above (as above)
Hell Divers (1932) (MGM) As 'Baldy' With Beery & Gable
Young Bride (1932) As 'Pete'
Love Starved (1932) Alternative title for above (as above)
Veneer (USA title) (1932) Alternative title for above (as above)
Stepping Out (1932) As 'Paul'
Fast Life (1932) As 'Bumpy'
Flying Devils (1933) (RKO) As 'Screwy Edwards'
The Flying Circus (GB title) (1933) (RKO) Alternative title for above (as above)
Hollywood On Parade (1933) Sang 2 songs
Take A Chance (1933) (Paramount) As 'Louie Webb' With Mae West 3 songs
George Whites Scandals (1934) (20th Century Fox) As 'Stew Hart' Sang 4 songs
George Whites Scandals (1935) (20th Century Fox) As 'Dude Holloway' Sang 4 songs
Red Salute (1935) Sang 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now'
Her Enlisted Man (1935) Alternative title for above (as above)
Runaway Daughter (1935) Alternative title for above (as above)
Her Uncle Sam - USA reissue title Alternative title for above (as above)
Arms and the Girl (GB title) (1935) Alternative title for above (as above)
Starlit Days At The Lido (1935) As himself
The Man I Marry (1936) As 'Jerry Ridgeway'
They Gave Him A Gun (1937) As 'Laro' Sang 'A Love Song Of Long Ago'
Between Two Women (aka Surrounded By Women) (1937) As 'Snoopy'
Saratoga (1937) As 'Tip O'Brien' Sang 1 song
Modern Inventions (1937) As voice of robot barber chair (uncredited)
Bad Guy (1937) As '"Hi-Line" Hobart' (Cameo role)
The Women Men Marry (1937) As 'Jerry Little'
Cinema Circus (1937) As himself (uncredited)
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) As 'Buzz McCreedy' With Wallace Beery
Pacific Paradise (1937) As himself
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) (MGM) As 'Minstrel Joe' With MacDonald & Eddy
Little Adventuress (1938) As 'Handy' Sang 1 song
Maisie (1939) As 'Shorty' With Southern & Young
Smuggled Cargo (1939) As 'Professor'
The Royal Rodeo (1939) As 'Shorty'
His Girl Friday (1939) As 'Endicott' With C Grant & R Russell
Gone With the Wind (1939) As voice of 'Reminiscent Soldier'
Pinocchio (1940) As the voice of Jiminy Cricket 3 songs
High School (1940) As 'Jeff'
Millionaires In Prision (1940) As 'Happy' Didn't sing
Flowing Gold (1940) (Warner Bros) As 'Hot Rocks Harris' Didn't sing
Friendly Neighbors (1940) As 'Notes'
She Couldn't Say No (1940) As 'Banjo Page' Sang 1 song
Cliff Edwards and his Buckaroos (1940)  
Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair (1941) I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
The Monster And The Girl (1941) As Leon Beecher 'Tips' Stokes Didn't sing
The Avenging Brain (1941) Alternative title for above (as above)
D.O.A. (1941) Alternative title for above (as above)
Knockout (1941) As 'Pinky / Sleepy' Didn't sing
Right To The Heart (1941) Alternative title for above (as above)
Power Dive (1941) As 'Squid Watkins' Didn't sing
Thunder Over The Prairie (1941) As 'Bones Malloy'
The Medico Rides) (1941) Alternative title for above (as above)
Dumbo (1941) (Disney) As Jim Crow 'When I See An Elephant Fly'
Prarie Stranger (1941) As 'Bones' Sang 5 songs
International Squadron (1941) As 'Omaha McGrath' Didn't sing
Riders of the Badlands (1941) As 'Bones Malloy'
Outlaw Rangers (1941) Alternative title for above (as above)
West Of Tombstone (1942) As 'Harmony Haines' Sang 3 songs
The New Spirit (1942)  
Lawless Plainsmen (1942) As 'Harmony Stubbs' Sang 2 songs
Valley Of Lawless Men (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
Roll On (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
Sundown Jim (1942) As 'Stable proprietor' Didn't sing
Riders Of The Northland (1942) As 'Harmony Bumpas' Sang 2 songs
Return Of The Rough Riders) (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
Next In Line (GB title) (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
Bandit Rider (1942) As 'Ike' Sang 3 songs
Overland To Deadwood (1942)  
Bad Men Of The Hills (1942) As 'Harmony Haines' Sang 3 songs
Wrongly Accused) (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
Pirates Of The Prairie (1942) As 'Ukulele Ike' Sang 2 songs
Red River Robin Hood (1942) As 'Ike' Sang 'Twilight On The Prairie'
Seven Miles From Alcatraz (1942) As 'Stormy' Didn't sing
Fighting Frontier (1942) As 'Ike' Sang 2 songs
Sagebrush Law (1942) As 'Ike' Sang 2 songs
American Empire (1942) As 'Runty' Sang 'Little Pal'
My Son Alone (GB title) (1942) Alternative title for above (as above)
The Avenging Rider (1942) As 'Ike' 'Minnie, My Mountain Moocher'
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943) (RKO) As 'Goldie Locke' Didn't sing
Minnie, My Mountain Moocher (1943) Sang 'Minnie, My Mountain Moocher'
Paddlin' Madeline Home (1943) Sang 'Paddlin' Madeline Home'
Salute For Three (1943) As 'Foggy' Sang 'My Wife's A W.A.A.C.'
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (1943) 'Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea'
Fun And Fancy Free (1947) (Disney) As voice of Jiminy Cricket Sang 2 songs
Mickey And The Beanstalk (1947) (Disney)  
The Cliff Edwards Show (1949) (TV series) Host
'Commercial' for Nash & The Hudson Automobiles (1955)  
The Littlest Outlaw (1955) Sang 'Doroteo' aka 'The Automobile Song'
The Man From Button Willow (1965) Voice-over only
That's Entertainment (1974) (Archive footage)  
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) Sang 'When You Wish Upon A Star'
Blaze Of Noon (????) Didn't sing

 

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