Burl Ives
Known for Acting · 78 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 (28)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Sam Shelby
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Wogan
1982
as Self
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
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
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Roots
1977
as Senator Arthur J. Justin
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self / Self - Host
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
as Self
Captains and the Kings
1976
as Old Syrup
General Electric Theater
1953
as King David
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as F.W. Woolworth
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
as Walter Nicholls
O.K. Crackerby
1965
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
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
The Ewok Adventure
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
The McMasters
1970
as McMasters
Sierra
1950
as Lonesome
Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Jack Bruhn
Summer Magic
1963
as Osh Popham
Station West
1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Daydreamer
1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
White Dog
1982
as Carruthers
The Bermuda Depths
1978
as Dr. Paulis
The Spiral Road
1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
Ensign Pulver
1964
as Captain Morton
Our Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
Earthbound
1981
as Ned Anderson
So Dear to My Heart
1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The Sound of Anger
1968
as Walter Nichols
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
Desire Under the Elms
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
Just You and Me, Kid
1979
as Max
Smoky
1946
as Willie
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Cottonmouth
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Gus
Uphill All the Way
1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
as Grandfather
The Power and the Prize
1956
as George Salt
Mediterranean Holiday
1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Baker's Hawk
1976
as Mr. McGraw
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Walter Nichols
The Brass Bottle
1964
as Fakrash
Pinocchio
1968
as Geppetto
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Himself
The First Easter Rabbit
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970
as T.M. Trask
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
as Narrator (voice)
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987
as Self
The Miracle Worker
1957
as Captain Keller
Tall Tales
1940
as Self
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984
as Self
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
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 78 credits spanning from 1940 to 2019, Burl Ives has appeared in 50 films and 28 TV shows.
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- 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
- The Ewok Adventure (1984) — as Narrator (voice)
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