Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on July 27, 1968. He is of New Zealand Maori descent (with Ngati Hauiti and Te Arawa tribal affiliations). He enrolled at the New Zealand Drama School, and then the Teatro Dmitri Scuola in Switzerland. After returning to New Zealand from Europe, he was cast in The Piano (1993). Subsequent roles in New Zealand include the camp melodrama Desperate Remedies (1992), the grueling urban drama Once Were Warriors (1994), and the lighthearted comedy Jubilee (2000). In Hollywood, Curtis has played a range of different roles and ethnicities in films. He plays a Colombian in Blow (2001), an Arab in Three Kings (1999) and The Insider (1999), a Latino in Training Day (2001) and Runaway Jury (2003), and a drug dealer of ambiguous ethnicity in Bringing Out the Dead (1999). However, he is probably best known for his role as Paikea's father Porourangi, in Whale Rider (2002).
Cliff De Young
Clifford Tobin De Young was born on February 12, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. He was the lead singer of the late-1960s rock band Clear Light, which played with such artists as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. He went to New York City in 1970 after the band broke up, starred in the Broadway production of "Hair" and the Tony Award-winning "Sticks and Bones". After four years in New York, he came back to California and starred in the television movie Sunshine (1973) and the subsequent series of the same name (Sunshine (1975)). He has made more than 80 films and television series, including Harry and Tonto (1974), The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977), Centennial (1978), Shock Treatment (1981), Flight of the Navigator (1986) and Glory (1989). After 25 years and countless performances in films, television and theater, he is still going strong in such projects as the ABC drama series Relativity (1996), and the films The Substitute (1996) and Suicide Kings (1997).
Cliff Edens
Cliff Edens is known for Chopping Block (2016), Pitfire of Hell (2016) and Bethlehem (2015).
Cliff Edwards
Becoming popular with playing the ukulele, his unique singing and supplying the voice of animated movies, Cliff Edwards was one of the most popular singers in America. Born in Hannibal, Missouri, Edwards left school at the age of 14, moved to St. Louis, and started to work as a singer in saloons. Edwards then taught himself to play the ukulele. He got his nickname, "Ukelele Ike", from a club owner who couldn't remember his name. Entering in the vaudeville circuit, he finally made it big. When entering into movies, one of his first movies he made was his most noticeable: The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929). Eleven years later, he was immortalized in Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
Cliff Ellen
Cliff Ellen is an actor, known for I Love You Too (2010), Bed of Roses (2008) and Against the Wind (1978).
Cliff Emmich
Tubby and engaging character actor Cliff Emmich was born on December 13, 1936 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father Clifford was a popular exotic car dealer whose celebrity customers included Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, and Ozzie Nelson. Following graduation from John Muir High School, Emmich served in the air force for four years as a photo technician. He first began acting on stage. Veteran character actor Keenan Wynn advised Emmich to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse for eight months. Emmich then toured the country with the American Repertory Players and spent a summer performing in summer stock at the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He made his film debut in Gaily, Gaily (1969). Later memorable roles were as a coroner in Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), as sexist jerk business executive who insults Yvette Mimieux at the beginning of Jackson County Jail (1976), as a bumbling small town deputy in Barracuda (1978), as the ill-fated hospital security guard Mr. Garrett in Halloween II (1981), as an asylum doctor in the trashy Hellhole (1985), and as a small town sheriff in Digital Man (1995). He has appeared in such television shows as Crossing Jordan (2001), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Nash Bridges (1996), Coach (1989), Baywatch (1989), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Knots Landing (1979), Night Court (1984), Hunter (1984), Riptide (1984), Simon & Simon (1981), CHiPs (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The Incredible Hulk (1977), Vega$ (1978), Fantasy Island (1977), Happy Days (1974), Little House on the Prairie (1974) (this is one of Emmich's favorite parts), Charlie's Angels (1976), Baretta (1975), Police Woman (1974), and Starsky and Hutch (1975). He is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Cliff Everett Smith
Born in Japan, Cliff Smith's father was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and his mother came to be one of the top breeders of Shetland Sheep dogs in the USA. He grew up in the rural southern states of Georgia and Virginia. While graduating college from Georgia State University in 1985 in Atlanta, Cliff had already embarked on a successful career as a radio personality at the legendary radio station, WQXI. While advancing quickly at Quixie in Dixie, Cliff became a top voiceover talent, too. He voiced and produced hundreds of commercials, and spent a season as the PA announcer for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. From there, Cliff moved on to work in Boston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix as one of the pioneers of the Smooth Jazz radio format. He hosted morning and afternoon radio shows in all those places and became one of the top rated radio hosts in Phoenix before leaving the radio business in 2006. Cliff propelled his acting career forward with huge, leading roles in plays written by Mel Weiser. Mel was the dialogue coach for Nick Nolte while Nick was filming Jefferson in Paris. Mel even wrote a book about the experience that won him a Drama Desk Award. Mel has worked as Cliff's mentor and acting coach since 2009 when Cliff starred as Harvey Pearlman in Cry, Tiger! on stage at Phoenix Little Theatre. Later, Cliff starred in Mel's brilliant story about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, A Tiny Piece of Land. This show played to rave reviews at Pico Playhouse in Los Angeles and at Phoenix Little Theatre. It was set for Off Broadway, but the economy fell out. Cliff moved to Hollywood in 2013 where he quickly gained representation as an actor and voiceover artist. In a short time he has booked several films, tv shows, commercials and voiceovers. When not performing, Cliff runs his online health food store and is often found on the trails around Los Angeles riding his mountain bike.
Cliff Ferre
Actor, composer, dancer, singer and author, educated at Deerfield Academy. He was a singer and dancer in Billy Rose's 'Aquacade', and in many other Broadway musicals. He served in the US Army during World War II, and appeared in the service show "This Is the Army". After his Army service he joined The Dunhills, and appeared in nightclubs and on television throughout 1949. He also was a staff announcer for a Miami television station between 1957 and 1962, and was program director for WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio. He joined ASCAP in 1950, and collaborated musically with Mark McIntyre. His best-known popular-song composition is "The Money Tree".
Cliff Flowers
Cliff Flowers is known for Peter Five Eight (2024) and Hotel Dunsmuir (2022).
Cliff Gardner
Cliff Gardner is known for The Video Dead (1987), The Murder of Laci Peterson (2017) and Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed (2023).