Burl Ives

Birthday:

06/14/1909

Place of birth:

Hunt City, Illinois, USA:

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.



Credits

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