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