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.
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Credits
- 2024 · The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along as
- 2019 · My Music: A Classic Christmas as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Big Daddy (archive footage)
- 1989 · Thomas Hart Benton as Himself
- 1989 · Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as F.W. Woolworth
- 1988 · Two Moon Junction as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
- 1986 · Uphill All the Way as Sheriff John Catledge
- 1984 · The Ewok Adventure as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · DTV: Golden Oldies as Self
- 1982 · White Dog as Carruthers
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1981 · Earthbound as Ned Anderson
- 1979 · Just You and Me, Kid as Max
- 1978 · The New Adventures of Heidi as Grandfather
- 1978 · The Bermuda Depths as Dr. Paulis
- 1976 · Baker's Hawk as Mr. McGraw
- 1976 · Captains and the Kings as Old Syrup
- 1976 · The First Easter Rabbit as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
- 1975 · Hugo the Hippo as Narrator - Vocalist (voice)
- 1975 · Gifts of an Eagle as
- 1973 · The Bobby Darin Show as
- 1973 · Tennessee Williams' South as
- 1971 · Alias Smith and Jones as
- 1970 · Night Gallery as Old Man Doubleday
- 1970 · The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever as T.M. Trask
- 1970 · The Smothers Brothers Summer Show as
- 1970 · The McMasters as McMasters
- 1969 · The Johnny Cash Show as Self
- 1969 · The Whole World Is Watching as Walter Nichols
- 1969 · The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
- 1968 · The Bold Ones: The Lawyers as Walter Nicholls
- 1968 · The Sound of Anger as Walter Nichols
- 1968 · Pinocchio as Geppetto
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as Arthur Jellicoe
- 1968 · The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde as Narrator (voice)
- 1967 · Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon as Phineas T. Barnum
- 1966 · The Daydreamer as Father Neptune (voice)
- 1965 · O.K. Crackerby as
- 1964 · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as Sam the Snowman (voice)
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Prater Beaseley
- 1964 · Ensign Pulver as Captain Morton
- 1964 · The Brass Bottle as Fakrash
- 1964 · The Hollywood Palace as Self
- 1963 · The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- 1963 · Summer Magic as Osh Popham
- 1963 · I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly as
- 1962 · Mediterranean Holiday as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
- 1962 · The Spiral Road as Dr. Brits Jansen
- 1960 · Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
- 1960 · Our Man in Havana as Dr. Hasselbacher
- 1959 · Day of the Outlaw as Jack Bruhn
- 1959 · The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- 1958 · The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey
- 1958 · Wind Across the Everglades as Cottonmouth
- 1958 · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
- 1958 · Desire Under the Elms as Éphraïm Cabot
- 1958 · Fun in the Big Country as Self
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jonathan J. Dwire
- 1956 · The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- 1956 · The Power and the Prize as George Salt
- 1955 · East of Eden as Sam the Sheriff
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as King David
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as
- 1950 · Sierra as Lonesome
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1948 · So Dear to My Heart as Uncle Hiram Douglas
- 1948 · Station West as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self - Singer
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · Green Grass of Wyoming as Gus
- 1946 · Smoky as Willie
- 1940 · Tall Tales as Self