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Date of Birth
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14-June-1895
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Place of Birth
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Hannibal
(Marion County, Missouri, Ralls County, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Clifton A. Edwards, Ukulele Ike, Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards, Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards, Ciff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards, Ukelele Ike
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Profession
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Singer, Actor, Voice Actor
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Clifton A. Edwards — known as "Ukelele Ike" — was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early '30s, 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. His personal life was troubled; he divorced three times, filed bankruptcy three times, was careless with money, and was addicted to drugs and alcohol. By the time of his death in 1971, Edwards was a penniless welfare patient at a California nursing home.
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