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Cliff Arquette
Cliff Arquette (Clifford Charles Arquette, 1905 to 1974) was an American actor and comedian best known for his folksy Charley Weaver character on The Hollywood Squares.
Cliff Burton
Cliff Burton (1962–1986), American bassist for Metallica from 1982 until his death in a 1986 Swedish tour bus crash; lead-style fingerstyle bass, "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)", co-wrote six of eight Ride the Lightning tracks.
Cliff Clavin
Cliff Clavin, John Ratzenberger's know-it-all postal worker on Cheers (1982-1993), invented at a failed Norm audition, famous for 'It's a little-known fact...', his mother Esther, and the Jeopardy! episode.
Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis (Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis, b. 1968) is a New Zealand actor of Te Arawa and Ngāti Hauiti descent, known for Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Training Day, Fear the Walking Dead, and Avatar sequels, and for producing Māori films.
Cliff Dwellers
Cliff Dwellers is a 1913 oil painting by George Bellows, a member of the Ashcan School, showing crowded immigrant tenement life on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards, known as Ukulele Ike (1895–1971), was an American vaudeville singer, ukulele player, and actor, a pioneer of recorded scat singing, and the voice of Jiminy Cricket singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez (born 1954, Bronx, New York) is an American film composer and former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer. Known for synth-heavy scores for Soderbergh (Traffic, Solaris, Contagion) and Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon), plus Far Cry 4.
Cliff Parisi
Cliff Parisi (born 1960, Poplar, London) is a British actor of Italian descent, known as Minty Peterson in EastEnders (2003–2010) and Fred Buckle in Call the Midwife since 2012; formerly a stand-up comedian, he served a year in prison at 19 for a bank robbery.
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (Harry Rodger Webb, born 1940, Lucknow) is the British pop singer whose 1958 single Move It opened the UK rock 'n' roll era; third-top-selling UK singles artist behind the Beatles and Elvis, knighted 1996.
Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson (Clifford Parker Robertson III, 1923-2011), American actor who won the 1969 Best Actor Oscar for Charly and a 1966 Emmy for The Game, played JFK in PT 109 and Uncle Ben in Spider-Man, and exposed the 1977 Columbia Pictures Begelman forgery scandal.
Cliff Walkers (悬崖之上)
Cliff Walkers (悬崖之上), also released as Impasse, is a 2021 Chinese spy thriller directed by Zhang Yimou, following four Soviet-trained agents betrayed during a secret mission in 1930s Manchukuo.
Cliff Williams
Cliff Williams (Clifford Williams), born 1949 in Romford, England, is the bassist of AC/DC since 1977, replacing Mark Evans. Known for simple downstroke-picked flatwound-string basslines on a Music Man StingRay, backing vocals, Powerage debut, 2016 retirement and Power Up return.
Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger: a narrative device ending a scene, chapter, or episode at unresolved tension to compel continuation. From Hardy's 1873 A Pair of Blue Eyes and 1910s film serials like The Perils of Pauline; the word dates to 1933 (serial) and 1950 (suspense).
Cliffhanger (1993 film)
Cliffhanger (1993), Renny Harlin action film starring Sylvester Stallone as mountain rescuer Gabe Walker versus hijacker Eric Qualen (John Lithgow) after a $100 million Treasury heist; filmed in the Italian Dolomites, grossed over $250 million worldwide, three Oscar nominations.
Cliffhanger (2027 film)
Cliffhanger is a 2027 action-thriller film, a reimagining of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone film, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Pierce Brosnan, Lily James, and Nell Tiger Free.
Clifford (film)
Clifford is a 1994 American comedy directed by Paul Flaherty, starring Martin Short as a scheming 10-year-old boy obsessed with a dinosaur theme park, with Charles Grodin as his uncle.
Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown (Brownie), American jazz trumpeter and hard bop pioneer (1930-1956), co-leader of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, composer of Joy Spring, Daahoud, and Sandu, killed in a 1956 car crash at 25.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c. 1932–2002) was an Anmatyerr painter of the Papunya Tula dot painting movement and the first Aboriginal Australian artist to gain international fame.
Clifford T. Ward
Clifford T. Ward (Clifford Thomas Ward, 1944 or 1946 to 2001), English Worcestershire singer-songwriter; 1973 UK hit "Gaye" (No. 8), albums Singer Songwriter and Home Thoughts, refused to tour, later multiple sclerosis.
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a children's character created by Norman Bridwell and published by Scholastic in 1963, with over 134 million books in print, PBS TV series (2000, 2019), and a 2021 live-action film.
Clifford the Big Red Dog (film)
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a 2021 Paramount live-action/CGI family comedy directed by Walt Becker, starring Darby Camp and Jack Whitehall, released November 10, 2021 in theaters and on Paramount+, adapted from Norman Bridwell's books.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. (Clifton Craig Collins Jr., born 1970) is an American character actor from Los Angeles, grandson of Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez; known for Capote, Westworld, Traffic, and Sundance-winning Jockey.
Clifton Davis
Clifton Davis (Clifton Duncan Davis), born 1945 in Chicago, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and minister. Known for Amen's Reverend Reuben Gregory, That's My Mama, the Jackson 5 song Never Can Say Goodbye, Broadway's Aladdin, and Vernon Dupree on Beyond the Gates.
Clifton James
Clifton James (1920–2017) was an American character actor, best known as Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Distinguished from M.E. Clifton James and Clifton Collins Jr. by his WWII Silver Star service and Broadway career.
Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell, American character actor born 1956 in Washington, D.C., Emerson College graduate, known as Chauncey in Menace II Society, Cutty in Dead Presidents, Pinky in the Friday films, Jeff Brown in Ray, and MLK in Selma, Lord, Selma.
Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb (Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, 1889-1966), American actor, dancer, and singer; Broadway star in Blithe Spirit who became a 20th Century-Fox film star, Oscar-nominated for Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty.
Cligès
Cligès is an Arthurian romance in Old French verse by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1176: 6,664 octosyllabic lines blending Arthurian Britain with a Byzantine setting in Constantinople.
Clika
Clika is a 2026 American music drama directed by Michael Greene, the debut film of Jimmy Humilde's Rancho Humilde, starring Jay Dee as small-town musician Chito; it grossed $2,679,904 worldwide.
Climate and Culture
Climate and Culture (風土, Fūdo) is a 1935 book by Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō arguing that climate and milieu are structural moments of human existence, not mere surroundings.
Climate fiction
Climate fiction, commonly abbreviated cli-fi, is fiction addressing climate change and its impacts, coined by Dan Bloom in 2007 to distinguish it from science fiction.