Burl Ives
Acting • Born 1909-06-14 – Died 1995-04-14
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.
Filmography
77 credits
East of Eden
Movie • 1955
Sam the Sheriff
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie • 1958
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
The Ewok Adventure
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
Two Moon Junction
Movie • 1988
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Baker's Hawk
Movie • 1976
Mr. McGraw
Our Man in Havana
Movie • 1960
Dr. Hasselbacher
Just You and Me, Kid
Movie • 1979
Max
The Big Country
Movie • 1958
Rufus Hannassey
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Movie • 1964
Sam the Snowman (voice)
So Dear to My Heart
Movie • 1948
Uncle Hiram Douglas
Ensign Pulver
Movie • 1964
Captain Morton
Station West
Movie • 1948
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Day of the Outlaw
Movie • 1959
Jack Bruhn
The First Easter Rabbit
Movie • 1976
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Brass Bottle
Movie • 1964
Fakrash
The Whole World Is Watching
Movie • 1969
Walter Nichols
White Dog
Movie • 1982
Carruthers
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Movie • 1967
Phineas T. Barnum
Green Grass of Wyoming
Movie • 1948
Gus
Wind Across the Everglades
Movie • 1958
Cottonmouth
The Bermuda Depths
Movie • 1978
Dr. Paulis
The McMasters
Movie • 1970
McMasters
Desire Under the Elms
Movie • 1958
Éphraïm Cabot
Fun in the Big Country
Movie • 1958
Self
Sierra
Movie • 1950
Lonesome
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Movie • 1960
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
The Spiral Road
Movie • 1962
Dr. Brits Jansen
The Power and the Prize
Movie • 1956
George Salt
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Movie • 1968
Narrator (voice)
Tennessee Williams' South
Movie • 1973
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Movie • 1970
T.M. Trask
Smoky
Movie • 1946
Willie
The Daydreamer
Movie • 1966
Father Neptune (voice)
Summer Magic
Movie • 1963
Osh Popham
The Sound of Anger
Movie • 1968
Walter Nichols
Gifts of an Eagle
Movie • 1975
Uphill All the Way
Movie • 1986
Sheriff John Catledge
DTV: Golden Oldies
Movie • 1984
Self
Thomas Hart Benton
Movie • 1989
Himself
Mediterranean Holiday
Movie • 1962
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The New Adventures of Heidi
Movie • 1978
Grandfather
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Movie • 1963
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie • 1994
Big Daddy (archive footage)
Earthbound
Movie • 1981
Ned Anderson
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Pinocchio
Movie • 1968
Geppetto
Tall Tales
Movie • 1940
Self
The Miracle Worker
Movie • 1957
Captain Keller
A Down Home Country Christmas
Movie • 1987
Self
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Movie • 1981
Himself
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Old Man Doubleday
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
King David
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Prater Beaseley
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self
The Johnny Cash Show
TV • 1969
Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV • 1969
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Jonathan J. Dwire
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
TV • 1969
Walter Nicholls
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
TV • 1970
Captains and the Kings
TV • 1976
Old Syrup
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Bobby Darin Show
TV • 1973
O.K. Crackerby
TV • 1965
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV • 1989
F.W. Woolworth
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Arthur Jellicoe
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Roots
TV • 1977
Senator Arthur J. Justin
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self