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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 14, 1909
Died
April 14, 1995
Place of Birth
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
- Бёрл Айвз
Burl Ives
0.8 Popularity
Biography
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
7.5
Self (archive footage)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
0.0
Big Daddy (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
7.5
Himself
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
4.5
F.W. Woolworth
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
6.0
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Two Moon Junction
1988
0.0
Self
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987
4.3
Sheriff John Catledge
Uphill All the Way
1986
5.9
Narrator (voice)
The Ewok Adventure
1984
0.0
Self
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984
6.6
Carruthers
White Dog
1982
Credits
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.5
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
1994
0.0
Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself
1989
7.5
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as F.W. Woolworth
1989
4.5
Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
1988
6.0
A Down Home Country Christmas
as Self
1987
0.0
Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge
1986
4.3
The Ewok Adventure
as Narrator (voice)
1984
5.9
DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
1984
0.0
White Dog
as Carruthers
1982
6.6
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Earthbound
as Ned Anderson
1981
3.3
Just You and Me, Kid
as Max
1979
5.4
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather
1978
4.0
The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis
1978
5.3
Roots
as Senator Arthur J. Justin
1977
7.4
Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw
1976
6.2
Captains and the Kings
as Old Syrup
1976
8.3
The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
1976
5.6
🎬
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
0.0
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
0.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
10.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Night Gallery
as Old Man Doubleday
1970
7.8
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
1970
5.0
🎬
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
8.0
The McMasters
as McMasters
1970
4.2
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
as Walter Nicholls
1969
3.0
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969
6.5
The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols
1969
0.0
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
1969
5.8
The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols
1968
0.0
Pinocchio
as Geppetto
1968
0.0
The Name of the Game
as Arthur Jellicoe
1968
6.8
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
1968
5.0
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
1967
5.5
The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)
1966
4.6
O.K. Crackerby
1965
0.0
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
1964
7.4
Daniel Boone
as Prater Beaseley
1964
7.0
Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton
1964
6.6
The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash
1964
6.1
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1964
4.5
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
Summer Magic
as Osh Popham
1963
6.6
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
5.5
Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
1962
8.0
The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen
1962
5.2
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
1960
5.6
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher
1960
6.7
Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn
1959
6.8
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey
1958
7.6
Wind Across the Everglades
as Cottonmouth
1958
5.9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
1958
7.6
Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot
1958
6.8
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
1958
0.0
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
1957
0.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jonathan J. Dwire
1956
6.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Power and the Prize
as George Salt
1956
5.5
East of Eden
as Sam the Sheriff
1955
7.5
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
7.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as King David
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
Sierra
as Lonesome
1950
5.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
So Dear to My Heart
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
1948
6.6
Station West
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1948
6.1
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Gus
1948
6.8
Smoky
as Willie
1946
5.2
Tall Tales
as Self
1940
0.0