Burl Ives
Known for Acting · 77 credits
- Born
- 1909-06-14
- Died
- 1995-04-14
- Place of birth
- Hunt City, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives · Бёрл Айвз
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.
Ives began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs. In 1942 he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, and then became a major star of CBS radio. In the 1960s he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughin'". A popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s, Ives's best-known film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1949) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ives is often remembered for his voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which continues to air annually around Christmas.
Known For
TV Shows (27)
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Sam Shelby
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
Wogan
1982
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jonathan J. Dwire
Daniel Boone
1964
as Prater Beaseley
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Night Gallery
1970
as Old Man Doubleday
The Name of the Game
1968
as Arthur Jellicoe
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Roots
1977
as Senator Arthur J. Justin
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self / Self - Host
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
as Self
Captains and the Kings
1976
as Old Syrup
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as F.W. Woolworth
General Electric Theater
1953
as King David
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
as Walter Nicholls
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
O.K. Crackerby
1965
Movies (50)
Two Moon Junction
1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
The Big Country
1958
as Rufus Hannassey
East of Eden
1955
as Sam the Sheriff
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
The Ewok Adventure
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Sierra
1950
as Lonesome
Summer Magic
1963
as Osh Popham
White Dog
1982
as Carruthers
Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Jack Bruhn
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
Ensign Pulver
1964
as Captain Morton
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Cottonmouth
The McMasters
1970
as McMasters
The Spiral Road
1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
So Dear to My Heart
1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
The Bermuda Depths
1978
as Dr. Paulis
Our Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
Station West
1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Desire Under the Elms
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
Just You and Me, Kid
1979
as Max
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Walter Nichols
The Daydreamer
1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
Smoky
1946
as Willie
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
The Power and the Prize
1956
as George Salt
The Sound of Anger
1968
as Walter Nichols
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Mediterranean Holiday
1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
as Grandfather
Uphill All the Way
1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Gus
The Brass Bottle
1964
as Fakrash
Earthbound
1981
as Ned Anderson
Baker's Hawk
1976
as Mr. McGraw
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970
as T.M. Trask
Pinocchio
1968
as Geppetto
The First Easter Rabbit
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The Miracle Worker
1957
as Captain Keller
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987
as Self
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Himself
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
as Narrator (voice)
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984
as Self
Tall Tales
1940
as Self
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
as Himself
About Burl Ives
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. Ives began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs. In 1942 he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, and then became a major star of CBS radio. In the 1960s he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughin'".… With 77 credits spanning from 1940 to 2019, Burl Ives has appeared in 50 films and 27 TV shows.
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Most Popular Burl Ives Movies
- Two Moon Junction (1988) — as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) — as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
- The Big Country (1958) — as Rufus Hannassey
- East of Eden (1955) — as Sam the Sheriff
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) — as Sam the Snowman (voice)
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