Burl Ives
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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
Credits
Two Moon Junction (1988)
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
The Big Country (1958)
as Rufus Hannassey
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
East of Eden (1955)
as Sam the Sheriff
The Ewok Adventure (1984)
as Narrator (voice)
White Dog (1982)
as Carruthers
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
as Dr. Paulis
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
as Jack Bruhn
The Spiral Road (1962)
as Dr. Brits Jansen
Tennessee Williams' South (1973)
Actor
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
as Cottonmouth
Our Man in Havana (1960)
as Dr. Hasselbacher
Fun in the Big Country (1958)
as Self
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
as Éphraïm Cabot
Ensign Pulver (1964)
as Captain Morton
The McMasters (1970)
as McMasters
Pinocchio (1968)
as Geppetto
Sierra (1950)
as Lonesome
Station West (1948)
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
as Phineas T. Barnum
Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
as Max
The Daydreamer (1966)
as Father Neptune (voice)
The Sound of Anger (1968)
as Walter Nichols
Thomas Hart Benton (1989)
as Himself
Mediterranean Holiday (1962)
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
as Grandfather
Uphill All the Way (1986)
as Sheriff John Catledge
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera (1981)
as Himself
The First Easter Rabbit (1976)
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Fakrash
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
as Gus
DTV: Golden Oldies (1984)
as Self
Baker's Hawk (1976)
as Mr. McGraw
A Down Home Country Christmas (1987)
as Self
The Power and the Prize (1956)
as George Salt
The Miracle Worker (1957)
as Captain Keller
Summer Magic (1963)
as Osh Popham
My Music: A Classic Christmas (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
The Whole World Is Watching (1969)
as Walter Nichols
Smoky (1946)
as Willie
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1963)
Actor
Earthbound (1981)
as Ned Anderson
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (1970)
as T.M. Trask
Gifts of an Eagle (1975)
Actor
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
as Narrator (voice)
Tall Tales (1940)
as Self