Cliff Nazarro

Cliff Nazarro

Born: January 31, 1904
Died: February 18, 1961
in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cliff Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was an American double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in films such as You'll Never Get Rich (1941) as Swivel Tongue, In Old Colorado (1941) as Nosey Haskins, and Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942) as Barney Google.

Nazarro was the voice of Warner Bros. Cartoons' cartoon character Egghead. He made a few commercial recordings, including a 1932 date as vocalist with swing band Roane's Pennsylvanians and a 1942 comic recitation, "News of the World". He made several uncredited appearances on the Jack Benny Program during the 1930s and early 1940s.

[biography (edited) from Wikipedia]

Movies for Cliff Nazarro...

Curtain Razor
Title: Curtain Razor
Character: Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, drinks nitroglycerin, gasoline and other explosive stuff, then swallows a match. KABOOM! Porky thinks that the act is really good until the wolf's ghost comes in and says that there's a catch... "I can only do it once!"(Source: bcdb.com)
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Blue Skies
Title: Blue Skies
Character: Cliff - Piano Player (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
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'Neath Canadian Skies
Title: 'Neath Canadian Skies
Character: Wilbur Wiggins
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: First Character
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Ding Dong Williams
Title: Ding Dong Williams
Character: Zing
Released: April 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.
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I'm from Arkansas
Title: I'm from Arkansas
Character: Willie Childs
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Swing Hostess
Title: Swing Hostess
Character: Bobo
Released: September 8, 1944
Type: Movie
An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
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Trocadero
Title: Trocadero
Character: Himself
Released: April 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
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Stars on Horseback
Title: Stars on Horseback
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
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Shantytown
Title: Shantytown
Character: Shortcake
Released: April 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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Two Saplings
Title: Two Saplings
Released: March 6, 1943
Type: Movie
George and Cliff own a Greek restaurant. They go to the bank to apply for a loan and unexpectedly foil a robbery in the process.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Pete Murphy
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Title: Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
Character: Barney Google
Released: August 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."
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Cinderella Goes To A Party
Title: Cinderella Goes To A Party
Character: Prince
Released: May 3, 1942
Type: Movie
An irreverent, animated modernization of the Cinderella story.
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Pardon My Stripes
Title: Pardon My Stripes
Character: Nutsy
Released: January 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
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Blondie Goes to College
Title: Blondie Goes to College
Character: Professor Mixwell
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Burt's Companion (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Sailors on Leave
Title: Sailors on Leave
Character: Mike
Released: September 30, 1941
Type: Movie
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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You'll Never Get Rich
Title: You'll Never Get Rich
Character: Swivel Tongue
Released: September 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Corps Man
Released: August 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
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World Premiere
Title: World Premiere
Character: Peters
Released: August 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
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Farm Frolics
Title: Farm Frolics
Character: Eddie Cantor Horse (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
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Porky's Preview
Title: Porky's Preview
Character: Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection of cartoons, drawn as stick figures. At the end, the audience is all gone because the skunk managed to sneak in. Porky's cartoons include: Circus Parade, Choo-Choo Train, Soldiers (Marchin), Horse Race, and Dances (hula, Mexican hat, and ballet). All accompanied by a self-parody musical score.
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Rookies on Parade
Title: Rookies on Parade
Character: Joe Martin
Released: April 16, 1941
Type: Movie
The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.
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In Old Colorado
Title: In Old Colorado
Character: Nosey Haskins
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
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Mr. Dynamite
Title: Mr. Dynamite
Character: Doubletalker
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Paunch 'n' Judy
Title: Paunch 'n' Judy
Character: Various
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Botzelberg
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Sniffles and the Bookworm
Title: Sniffles and the Bookworm
Character: Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.
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Believe It or Else
Title: Believe It or Else
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
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Forged Passport
Title: Forged Passport
Character: 'Shakespeare'
Released: April 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: 1st Tout
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Count Me Out
Title: Count Me Out
Character: Egghead
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Cliff
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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A-Lad-In Bagdad
Title: A-Lad-In Bagdad
Character: Aladdin (voice)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic lamp in a carnival coin-operated crane game. The shady character who was playing the game before him covets the lamp, and tries to steal it. Egghead sees a poster: The sultan is having a contest for his daughter's hand in marriage. With his lamp, Egghead thinks he's a sure bet; he conjures up a magic carpet, and he's off. After a couple bad vaudeville acts, it's Egghead's turn, but in the meantime, the bad guy swapped the lamp for a coffeepot. Egghead is thrown out, then sees the bad guy using the lamp; Egghead breaks in, steals the lamp and the girl, and flies off. But she uses the lamp herself to conjure up a real hunk to replace the nerdy Egghead.
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Cinderella Meets Fella
Title: Cinderella Meets Fella
Character: Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets Prince Charming (Egghead).
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The Penguin Parade
Title: The Penguin Parade
Character: M.C. (voice)
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, literaly melting some of the instruments.
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Outside of Paradise
Title: Outside of Paradise
Character: Cliff
Released: February 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
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Behind the Mike
Title: Behind the Mike
Character: Messenger Boy
Released: September 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
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The Singing Buckaroo
Title: The Singing Buckaroo
Character: Gabby
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Barbara Evans has $25,000 and Gifford is after it. When his henchman fail to get it he refuses to pay them. They then decide to double cross him and get the money for themselves. Gordon is trying to protect Barbara and he must not only take care of the two henchmen, but also Gifford and his phony Sheriff.
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Romance Rides the Range
Title: Romance Rides the Range
Character: 'Shorty'
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
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Billboard Frolics
Title: Billboard Frolics
Character: Eddie Camphor
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Billboards come to life. Eddie Camphor and his "wioleen" player Rub-Him-Off do a song and dance to "Merrily We Roll Along" with new lyrics...