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person_profile-Burl Ives

Burl Ives Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Burl Ives

Date of Birth:

Jun 14, 1909

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 14, 1995

Biography of

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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Filmography of

Burl Ives

Found 43 Movies in total

My Music: A Classic Christmas

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Big Daddy (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

Thomas Hart Benton

Himself ( Actor )

... 1989

Two Moon Junction

Sheriff Earl Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1988

Uphill All the Way

Sheriff John Catledge ( Actor )

... 1986

The Ewok Adventure

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1984

DTV: Golden Oldies

Himself ( Actor )

... 1984

White Dog

Carruthers ( Actor )

... 1982

Earthbound

Ned Anderson ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1979

The New Adventures of Heidi

Grandfather ( Actor )

... 1978

The Bermuda Depths

Dr. Paulis ( Actor )

... 1978

Baker's Hawk

Mr. McGraw ( Actor )

... 1976

Hugo the Hippo

Narrator - Vocalist (voice) ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1970

The McMasters

McMasters ( Actor )

... 1970

The Whole World Is Watching

Walter Nichols ( Actor )

... 1969

The Sound of Anger

Walter Nichols ( Actor )

... 1968

Pinocchio

Geppetto ( Actor )

... 1968

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1968

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Phineas T. Barnum ( Actor )

... 1967

The Daydreamer

Father Neptune (voice) ( Actor )

... 1966

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Sam the Snowman (voice) ( Actor )

... 1964

Ensign Pulver

Captain Morton ( Actor )

... 1964

The Brass Bottle

Fakrash ( Actor )

... 1964

Summer Magic

Osh Popham ( Actor )

... 1963

Mediterranean Holiday

Narrator (US Version) (voice) ( Actor )

... 1962

The Spiral Road

Dr. Brits Jansen ( Actor )

... 1962

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1960

Our Man in Havana

Dr. Hasselbacher ( Actor )

... 1960

Day of the Outlaw

Jack Bruhn ( Actor )

... 1959

The Big Country

Rufus Hannassey ( Actor )

... 1958

Wind Across the Everglades

Cottonmouth ( Actor )

... 1958

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt ( Actor )

... 1958

Desire Under the Elms

Éphraïm Cabot ( Actor )

... 1958

The Power and the Prize

George Salt ( Actor )

... 1956

East of Eden

Sam the Sheriff ( Actor )

... 1955

Sierra

Lonesome ( Actor )

... 1950

So Dear to My Heart

Uncle Hiram Douglas ( Actor )

... 1948

Station West

Hotel Clerk ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1948

Smoky

Willie ( Actor )

... 1946