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'". 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: Acting

Born: Hunt City, Illinois, USA, 1909-06-14

Died: 1995-04-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	Tall Tales	Self	0
2	1946	Smoky	Willie	52
3	1948	Green Grass of Wyoming	Gus	66
4	1948	Station West	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	61
5	1948	So Dear to My Heart	Uncle Hiram Douglas	65
6	1950	Sierra	Lonesome	53
7	1955	East of Eden	Sam the Sheriff	76
8	1956	The Power and the Prize	George Salt	55
9	1958	Fun in the Big Country	Self	0
10	1958	Desire Under the Elms	Éphraïm Cabot	69
11	1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt	77
12	1958	Wind Across the Everglades	Cottonmouth	61
13	1958	The Big Country	Rufus Hannassey	76
14	1959	Day of the Outlaw	Jack Bruhn	68
15	1960	Our Man in Havana	Dr. Hasselbacher	67
16	1960	Let No Man Write My Epitaph	Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan	61
17	1962	The Spiral Road	Dr. Brits Jansen	52
18	1962	Mediterranean Holiday	Narrator (US Version) (voice)	80
19	1963	I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly		55
20	1963	Summer Magic	Osh Popham	67
21	1964	The Brass Bottle	Fakrash	62
22	1964	Ensign Pulver	Captain Morton	66
23	1964	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Sam the Snowman (voice)	74
24	1966	The Daydreamer	Father Neptune (voice)	50
25	1967	Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon	Phineas T. Barnum	55
26	1968	The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde	Narrator (voice)	50
27	1968	Pinocchio	Geppetto	0
28	1968	The Sound of Anger	Walter Nichols	0
29	1969	The Whole World Is Watching	Walter Nichols	0
30	1970	The McMasters	McMasters	44
31	1970	The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever	T.M. Trask	50
32	1973	Tennessee Williams' South		100
33	1975	Gifts of an Eagle		0
34	1975	Hugo the Hippo	Narrator - Vocalist (voice)	69
35	1976	The First Easter Rabbit	Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)	56
36	1976	Baker's Hawk	Mr. McGraw	62
37	1978	The Bermuda Depths	Dr. Paulis	51
38	1978	The New Adventures of Heidi	Grandfather	40
39	1979	Just You and Me, Kid	Max	55
40	1981	Earthbound	Ned Anderson	33
41	1982	White Dog	Carruthers	66
42	1984	DTV: Golden Oldies	Self	0
43	1984	The Ewok Adventure	Narrator (voice)	59
44	1986	Uphill All the Way	Sheriff John Catledge	43
45	1988	Two Moon Junction	Sheriff Earl Hawkins	61
46	1989	Thomas Hart Benton	Himself	75
47	1994	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage	Big Daddy (archive footage)	0
48	2019	My Music: A Classic Christmas	Self (archive footage)	75

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
3	1953	General Electric Theater	King David	63
4	1953	General Electric Theater		63
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
6	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney		78
7	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
8	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jonathan J. Dwire	55
9	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
10	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self	73
11	1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Self	63
12	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self	45
13	1964	Daniel Boone	Prater Beaseley	69
14	1965	O.K. Crackerby		0
15	1968	The Name of the Game	Arthur Jellicoe	68
16	1969	The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour	Self	58
17	1969	The Johnny Cash Show	Self	65
18	1969	The Bold Ones: The Lawyers	Walter Nicholls	30
19	1970	The Smothers Brothers Summer Show		0
20	1970	Night Gallery	Old Man Doubleday	78
21	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
22	1973	The Bobby Darin Show		0
23	1976	Captains and the Kings	Old Syrup	83
24	1982	Wogan	Self	45
25	1989	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	F.W. Woolworth	45

Burl Ives

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