
Burl Ives
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.
77 acting credits
Acting · 77

Little House on the Prairie
1974

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Daniel Boone
1964

Wogan
1982

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Night Gallery
1970

What's My Line?
1950

The Name of the Game
1968

The Oscars
1953

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Roots
1977

Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

The Hollywood Palace
1964

The Danny Kaye Show
1963

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969

The Bell Telephone Hour
1959

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

The Johnny Cash Show
1969

Captains and the Kings
1976

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989

General Electric Theater
1953

The Big Country
1958

Two Moon Junction
1988

East of Eden
1955

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964

The Ewok Adventure
1984

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969

White Dog
1982

O.K. Crackerby
1965

Day of the Outlaw
1959

Sierra
1950

Our Man in Havana
1960

Desire Under the Elms
1958
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970

The Bermuda Depths
1978

The Bobby Darin Show
1973

Wind Across the Everglades
1958

Ensign Pulver
1964

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994

The McMasters
1970

So Dear to My Heart
1948

The Daydreamer
1966

Summer Magic
1963

Station West
1948

The Spiral Road
1962

My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967

Just You and Me, Kid
1979

The New Adventures of Heidi
1978

Baker's Hawk
1976

The Whole World Is Watching
1969

Green Grass of Wyoming
1948

Smoky
1946

Pinocchio
1968

Fun in the Big Country
1958

The Sound of Anger
1968

Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960

Thomas Hart Benton
1989

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970

Mediterranean Holiday
1962

The Brass Bottle
1964

Earthbound
1981

The First Easter Rabbit
1976

Uphill All the Way
1986

Tennessee Williams' South
1973

DTV: Golden Oldies
1984

The Power and the Prize
1956

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
Gifts of an Eagle
1975

A Down Home Country Christmas
1987

The Miracle Worker
1957

Tall Tales
1940

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981