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