Cast
Burl Ives
Acting
Cast
Burl Ives
Known for
Acting
Born
1909-06-14
From
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Died
1995-04-14
Also known as Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
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.
Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey
East of Eden
as Sam the Sheriff
The Ewok Adventure
as Narrator (voice)
Sierra
as Lonesome
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
Summer Magic
as Osh Popham
Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn
The McMasters
as McMasters
The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen
White Dog
as Carruthers
Station West
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton
The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher
So Dear to My Heart
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
Wind Across the Everglades
as Cottonmouth
Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot
The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)
Smoky
as Willie
The Power and the Prize
as George Salt
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Tennessee Williams' South
Just You and Me, Kid
as Max
Earthbound
as Ned Anderson
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge
The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols
Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Gus
Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw
The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash
The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
Pinocchio
as Geppetto
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
A Down Home Country Christmas
as Self
DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Gifts of an Eagle
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
as Himself
Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself
Tall Tales
as Self