Burl Ives
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-06-14
Day of Death
1995-04-14 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Burl Ives
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
Acting
(2019)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
(1989)
Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself
(1988)
Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
(1986)
Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge
(1984)
The Ewok Adventure
as Narrator (voice)
(1984)
DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
(1982)
White Dog
as Carruthers
(1981)
Earthbound
as Ned Anderson
(1979)
Just You and Me, Kid
as Max
(1978)
The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis
(1978)
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather
(1976)
The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
(1976)
Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw
(1975)
Hugo the Hippo
as Narrator - Vocalist (voice)
(1975)
(1973)
(1970)
The McMasters
as McMasters
(1970)
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
(1969)
The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols
(1968)
The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols
(1968)
Pinocchio
as Geppetto
(1968)
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
(1967)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
(1966)
The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)
(1964)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
(1964)
Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton
(1964)
The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash
(1963)
Summer Magic
as Osh Popham
(1963)
(1962)
The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen
(1962)
Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
(1960)
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher
(1960)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
(1959)
Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn
(1958)
The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey
(1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
(1958)
Wind Across the Everglades
as Cottonmouth
(1958)
Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot
(1958)
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
(1956)
The Power and the Prize
as George Salt
(1955)
East of Eden
as Sam the Sheriff
(1950)
Sierra
as Lonesome
(1948)
So Dear to My Heart
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
(1948)
Station West
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
(1948)
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Gus
(1946)
Smoky
as Willie
(1940)
Tall Tales
as Self