Burl Ives
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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.
Acted in
The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
2024
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
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as F.W. Woolworth
Two Moon Junction
1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
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
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
Captains and the Kings
1976
as Old Syrup
The First Easter Rabbit
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Hugo the Hippo
1975
as Narrator - Vocalist (voice)
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970
as T.M. Trask
Night Gallery
1970
as Old Man Doubleday
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
The McMasters
1970
as McMasters
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
as Walter Nicholls
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Walter Nichols
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
The Sound of Anger
1968
as Walter Nichols
Pinocchio
1968
as Geppetto
The Name of the Game
1968
as Arthur Jellicoe
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)
O.K. Crackerby
1965
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
Daniel Boone
1964
as Prater Beaseley
Ensign Pulver
1964
as Captain Morton
The Brass Bottle
1964
as Fakrash
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
Summer Magic
1963
as Osh Popham
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
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
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self
The Big Country
1958
as Rufus Hannassey
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Cottonmouth
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Desire Under the Elms
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jonathan J. Dwire
The Power and the Prize
1956
as George Salt
East of Eden
1955
as Sam the Sheriff
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Oscars
1953
as Self
General Electric Theater
1953
as King David
General Electric Theater
1953
Sierra
1950
as Lonesome
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
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