Burl Ives
Acting
1909-06-14 · Hunt City, Illinois, USA
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
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019 · Movie
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Movie
Thomas Hart Benton
1989 · Movie
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989 · Series
Two Moon Junction
1988 · Movie
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987 · Movie
Uphill All the Way
1986 · Movie
The Ewok Adventure
1984 · Movie
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984 · Movie
White Dog
1982 · Movie
Wogan
1982 · Series
Earthbound
1981 · Movie
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981 · Movie
Just You and Me, Kid
1979 · Movie
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978 · Movie
The Bermuda Depths
1978 · Movie
Roots
1977 · Series
Baker's Hawk
1976 · Movie
Captains and the Kings
1976 · Series
The First Easter Rabbit
1976 · Movie
Gifts of an Eagle
1975 · Movie
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Series
The Bobby Darin Show
1973 · Series
Tennessee Williams' South
1973 · Movie
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · Series
Night Gallery
1970 · Series
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970 · Movie
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970 · Series
The McMasters
1970 · Movie
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969 · Series
The Johnny Cash Show
1969 · Series
The Whole World Is Watching
1969 · Movie
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969 · Series
The Sound of Anger
1968 · Movie
Pinocchio
1968 · Movie
The Name of the Game
1968 · Series
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968 · Movie
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967 · Movie
The Daydreamer
1966 · Movie
O.K. Crackerby
1965 · Series
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964 · Movie
Daniel Boone
1964 · Series
Ensign Pulver
1964 · Movie
The Brass Bottle
1964 · Movie
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Series
The Danny Kaye Show
1963 · Series
Summer Magic
1963 · Movie
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963 · Movie
Mediterranean Holiday
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Spiral Road
1962 · Movie
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 · Movie
Our Man in Havana
1960 · Movie
Day of the Outlaw
1959 · Movie
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Series
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Movie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Movie
The Big Country
1958 · Movie
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Movie
Fun in the Big Country
1958 · Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
The Miracle Worker
1957 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Series
The Power and the Prize
1956 · Movie
East of Eden
1955 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Sierra
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
So Dear to My Heart
1948 · Movie
Station West
1948 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948 · Movie
Smoky
1946 · Movie
Tall Tales
1940 · Movie