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Burl Ives
Actor
Died April 14, 1995 (85 years)
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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.
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
Filmography
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed · as Dr. Brits Jansen |
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Big Daddy |
| 2000 | All About 'the Birds' · as Fakrash From 'the Brass Bottle' |
| 1992 | Rock Hudson's Home Movies · as Dr. Brits Jansen |
| 1989 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (TV Series) · as F.w. Woolworth |
| 1988 | Two Moon Junction · as Sheriff Earl Hawkins |
| 1987 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story · as F.w. Woolworth (part 1) |
| 1986 | Uphill All the Way · as Sheriff John Catledge |
| 1984 | The Ewok Adventure · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1983 | Danger Bay (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1982 | White Dog · as Carruthers |
| 1981 | Earthbound · as Ned Anderson |
| 1979 | Just You and Me, Kid · as Max |
| 1978 | The New Adventures of Heidi · as Grandfather |
| 1978 | The Bermuda Depths · as Dr. Paulis |
| 1977 | Roots (TV Series) · as Senator Arthur J. Justin |
| 1976 | Baker's Hawk · as Mr. Mcgraw |
| 1976 | Captains and the Kings (TV Series) · as Old Syrup |
| 1976 | The First Easter Rabbit · as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice) |
| 1975 | Hugo the Hippo · as Narrator - Vocalist (voice) |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Sam Shelby |
| 1973 | The Bobby Darin Show (TV Series) |
| 1973 | |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) |
| 1970 | The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever · as T.m. Trask |
| 1970 | The McMasters · as Mcmasters |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Old Man Doubleday |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV Series) · as Walter Nicholls |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Arthur Jellicoe |
| 1968 | The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1967 | Those Fantastic Flying Fools · as Phineas T. Barnum |
| 1966 | The Daydreamer · as Father Neptune (voice) |
| 1964 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · as Sam The Snowman (voice) |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Prater Beaseley |
| 1964 | Ensign Pulver · as Captain Morton |
| 1964 | The Brass Bottle · as Fakrash |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | Summer Magic · as Osh Popham |
| 1962 | Mediterranean Holiday · as Narrator (us Version) (voice) |
| 1962 | The Spiral Road · as Dr. Brits Jansen |
| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph · as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan |
| 1959 | Our Man in Havana · as Dr. Hasselbacher |
| 1959 | Day of the Outlaw · as Jack Bruhn |
| 1958 | The Big Country · as Rufus Hannassey |
| 1958 | Wind Across the Everglades · as Cottonmouth |
| 1958 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · as Harvey 'big Daddy' Pollitt |
| 1958 | Desire Under the Elms · as Éphraïm Cabot |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Jonathan J. Dwire |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Captain Keller |
| 1956 | The Power and the Prize · as George Salt |
| 1955 | East of Eden · as Sam The Sheriff |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Matthew Randolph |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as King David |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Big Pappy Tumbleweed |
| 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 |
| 1948 | We, the People (TV Series) |
| 1946 | Smoky · as Willie |