Burl Ives
Acting
Born: 1909-06-14 in 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.
Known For
Little House on the Prairie
Sam Shelby
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
White Dog
Carruthers
Roots
Senator Arthur J. Justin
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
Night Gallery
Old Man Doubleday
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Oscars
Self
Summer Magic
Osh Popham
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
The Wonderful World of Disney
Daniel Boone
Prater Beaseley
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
Alias Smith and Jones
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
What's My Line?
Self
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm Cabot
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
Sierra
Lonesome
The Name of the Game
Arthur Jellicoe
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Spiral Road
Dr. Brits Jansen
The Daydreamer
Father Neptune (voice)
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The McMasters
McMasters
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jonathan J. Dwire
Uphill All the Way
Sheriff John Catledge