Burl Ives
Acting
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
Acting78
movieMy Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
Self (archive footage)
movieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Big Daddy (archive footage)
movieThomas Hart Benton
1989
Himself
tvPoor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
F.W. Woolworth
movieTwo Moon Junction
1988
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
movieUphill All the Way
1986
Sheriff John Catledge
movieThe Ewok Adventure
1984
Narrator (voice)
movieWhite Dog
1982
Carruthers
tvWogan
1982
Self
movieEarthbound
1981
Ned Anderson
movieThe New Adventures of Heidi
1978
Grandfather
movieThe Bermuda Depths
1978
Dr. Paulis
tvRoots
1977
Senator Arthur J. Justin
movieBaker's Hawk
1976
Mr. McGraw
tvCaptains and the Kings
1976
Old Syrup
movieThe First Easter Rabbit
1976
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
tvLittle House on the Prairie
1974
Sam Shelby
tvNight Gallery
1970
Old Man Doubleday
movieThe McMasters
1970
McMasters
tvThe Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
Walter Nicholls
movieThe Whole World Is Watching
1969
Walter Nichols
movieThe Sound of Anger
1968
Walter Nichols
moviePinocchio
1968
Geppetto
tvThe Name of the Game
1968
Arthur Jellicoe
movieThe Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
Narrator (voice)
movieJules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
Phineas T. Barnum
movieThe Daydreamer
1966
Father Neptune (voice)
movieRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
Sam the Snowman (voice)
tvDaniel Boone
1964
Prater Beaseley
movieEnsign Pulver
1964
Captain Morton
movieThe Brass Bottle
1964
Fakrash
movieSummer Magic
1963
Osh Popham
movieMediterranean Holiday
1962
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
movieThe Spiral Road
1962
Dr. Brits Jansen
movieLet No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
movieOur Man in Havana
1960
Dr. Hasselbacher
movieDay of the Outlaw
1959
Jack Bruhn
tvThe Bell Telephone Hour
1959
Self / Self - Host
movieWind Across the Everglades
1958
Cottonmouth
movieCat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
movieThe Big Country
1958
Rufus Hannassey
movieDesire Under the Elms
1958
Éphraïm Cabot
movieThe Miracle Worker
1957
Captain Keller
tvDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Jonathan J. Dwire
movieThe Power and the Prize
1956
George Salt
movieEast of Eden
1955
Sam the Sheriff
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953
King David
movieSierra
1950
Lonesome
movieSo Dear to My Heart
1948
Uncle Hiram Douglas
movieStation West
1948
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
movieSmoky
1946
Willie
