Burl Ives
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 14, 1909
- Died
- April 14, 1995
- Birthplace
- 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
as Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage 1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
Thomas Hart Benton 1989
as Himself
Two Moon Junction 1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
A Down Home Country Christmas 1987
as Self
Uphill All the Way 1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
The Ewok Adventure 1984
as Narrator (voice)
DTV: Golden Oldies 1984
as Self
White Dog 1982
as Carruthers
Earthbound 1981
as Ned Anderson
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera 1981
as Himself
Just You and Me, Kid 1979
as Max
The New Adventures of Heidi 1978
as Grandfather
The Bermuda Depths 1978
as Dr. Paulis
Baker's Hawk 1976
as Mr. McGraw
The First Easter Rabbit 1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
- Gifts of an Eagle
Gifts of an Eagle 1975
Actor
Tennessee Williams' South 1973
as Self - Charlie Colton
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever 1970
as T.M. Trask
The McMasters 1970
as McMasters
The Whole World Is Watching 1969
as Walter Nichols
The Sound of Anger 1968
as Walter Nichols
Pinocchio 1968
as Geppetto
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde 1968
as Narrator (voice)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon 1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
The Daydreamer 1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
Ensign Pulver 1964
as Captain Morton
The Brass Bottle 1964
as Fakrash
Summer Magic 1963
as Osh Popham
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 1963
Actor
Mediterranean Holiday 1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The Spiral Road 1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
Let No Man Write My Epitaph 1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Our Man in Havana 1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
Day of the Outlaw 1959
as Jack Bruhn
Wind Across the Everglades 1958
as Cottonmouth
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
The Big Country 1958
as Rufus Hannassey
Desire Under the Elms 1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
Fun in the Big Country 1958
as Self
The Miracle Worker 1957
as Captain Keller
The Power and the Prize 1956
as George Salt
East of Eden 1955
as Sam the Sheriff
Sierra 1950
as Lonesome
So Dear to My Heart 1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
Station West 1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Green Grass of Wyoming 1948
as Gus
Smoky 1946
as Willie
Tall Tales 1940
as Self
Credits from TMDB.