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