Burl Ives
Acting
Born: June 14, 1909 · Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Died: April 14, 1995 (aged 85)
Highest Rated
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
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
East of Eden
1955
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
The Ewok Adventure
1984
The Big Country
1958
White Dog
1982
Roots
1977
Two Moon Junction
1988
Our Man in Havana
1960
Day of the Outlaw
1959
Night Gallery
1970
Photos (4)
Movies (42)
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
White Dog
Carruthers
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm Cabot
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
The New Adventures of Heidi
Grandfather
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Big Daddy (archive footage)
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
The McMasters
McMasters
Summer Magic
Osh Popham
The Spiral Road
Dr. Brits Jansen
Sierra
Lonesome
The Daydreamer
Father Neptune (voice)
The Power and the Prize
George Salt
Baker's Hawk
Mr. McGraw
Pinocchio
Geppetto
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
The Whole World Is Watching
Walter Nichols
Mediterranean Holiday
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
Uphill All the Way
Sheriff John Catledge
Smoky
Willie
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
T.M. Trask
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
Earthbound
Ned Anderson
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Sound of Anger
Walter Nichols
The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Narrator (voice)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
TV Shows (15)
Little House on the Prairie
Sam Shelby · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
Prater Beaseley · 2 eps
The Name of the Game
Arthur Jellicoe · 1 eps
Night Gallery
Old Man Doubleday · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jonathan J. Dwire · 1 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
4 eps
Roots
Senator Arthur J. Justin · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
1 eps
Captains and the Kings
Old Syrup · 8 eps
General Electric Theater
King David · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
1 eps
The Bobby Darin Show
1 eps
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
F.W. Woolworth · 6 eps
O.K. Crackerby
17 eps
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Walter Nicholls · 27 eps
Self / Appearances (20)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
Wogan
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 2 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 5 eps
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self · 2 eps
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self · 2 eps
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Danny Kaye Show
Self · 1 eps
The Hollywood Palace
Self · 1 eps
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self · 1 eps
The Johnny Cash Show
Self · 2 eps
A Down Home Country Christmas
Self
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
DTV: Golden Oldies
Self
Fun in the Big Country
Self
Thomas Hart Benton
Himself
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
Tall Tales
Self