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