Editing Cliff Edwards (section)

==Later years and death==
In his final years, Edwards lived in a home for [[Wiktionary:indigent#Pronunciation|indigent]] actors and often spent his time at the [[Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios]] to be available any time he could get voice work. He was sometimes taken to lunch by animators whom he befriended and told stories of his days in vaudeville.

Edwards died on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a [[cardiac arrest]] brought on by [[arteriosclerosis]].<ref name="nytimes1971">{{cite news|author=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/22/archives/cliff-edwards-76-ukulele-ike-of-stage-and-film-dies-on-coast.html|title=Cliff Edwards, 76, 'Ukulele Ike' Of Stage and Film, Dies on Coast |newspaper=nytimes.com |date=July 22, 1971 |access-date=March 31, 2020}}</ref> At the time of his death, Edwards was a penniless charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood, California]]. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] medical school. When [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]], which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the [[Actors' Fund of America]] (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvparty.com/xmas-disney.html|title=Disney First Christmas Special|website=Tvparty.com|access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref>