Burl Ives
Known for: Acting
Born: June 14, 1909
Died: April 14, 1995
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
50 movies · 28 TV shows, newest first
7.5
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
9.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
7.8
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
5.7
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
6.1
Two Moon Junction
1988
NR
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987
5.6
Uphill All the Way
1986
5.8
The Ewok Adventure
1984
NR
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984
6.6
White Dog
1982
5.3
Wogan
1982
5.0
Earthbound
1981
NR
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
5.5
Just You and Me, Kid
1979
5.0
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
5.5
The Bermuda Depths
1978
7.4
Roots
1977
6.8
Baker's Hawk
1976
8.8
Captains and the Kings
1976
5.8
The First Easter Rabbit
1976NR
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
8.0
Little House on the Prairie
1974
10.0
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
10.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.8
Night Gallery
1970
7.5
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
19708.0
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
4.6
The McMasters
1970
4.7
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
6.5
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
9.0
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
6.8
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
8.0
The Sound of Anger
1968
NR
Pinocchio
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.0
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
5.5
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
5.1
The Daydreamer
1966
10.0
O.K. Crackerby
1965
7.4
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
1964
6.5
Ensign Pulver
1964
6.3
The Brass Bottle
1964
5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
7.0
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
6.7
Summer Magic
1963
7.0
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
8.0
Mediterranean Holiday
1962
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.5
The Spiral Road
1962
5.9
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
6.7
Our Man in Havana
1960
6.8
Day of the Outlaw
1959
8.0
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
6.2
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
7.6
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
7.6
The Big Country
1958
6.8
Desire Under the Elms
1958
NR
Fun in the Big Country
19587.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
NR
The Miracle Worker
1957
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
6.3
The Power and the Prize
1956
7.5
East of Eden
1955
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
7.0
The Oscars
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
5.4
Sierra
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.6
So Dear to My Heart
1948
6.4
Station West
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.7
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
5.7
Smoky
1946
NR
Tall Tales
1940