1939Winner
Best Performance
Gone with the Wind
Cliff Edwards
Actor
Hannibal, Missouri, USA
June 13, 1895
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1940Nominee
Best Performance
Pinocchio
1941Nominee
Best Performance
Dumbo
Career Highlights
2023Highlight
Best Performance
Once Upon a Studio
1947Highlight
Best Performance
Fun and Fancy Free