Burl Ives
Born: 1909-06-14 in Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Died: 1995-04-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2019
- My Music: A Classic Christmas as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Big Daddy (archive footage)
1989
- Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as F.W. Woolworth
- Thomas Hart Benton as Himself
1988
- Two Moon Junction as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
1987
- A Down Home Country Christmas as Self
1986
- Uphill All the Way as Sheriff John Catledge
1984
- The Ewok Adventure as Narrator (voice)
- DTV: Golden Oldies as Self
1981
- Earthbound as Ned Anderson
- Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera as Himself
1979
- Just You and Me, Kid as Max
1978
- The Bermuda Depths as Dr. Paulis
- The New Adventures of Heidi as Grandfather
1977
- Roots as Senator Arthur J. Justin
1976
- Captains and the Kings as Old Syrup
- Baker's Hawk as Mr. McGraw
- The First Easter Rabbit as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
1975
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Sam Shelby
1970
- Night Gallery as Old Man Doubleday
- The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
- The McMasters as McMasters
- The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever as T.M. Trask
1969
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
- The Johnny Cash Show as Self
- The Bold Ones: The Lawyers as Walter Nicholls
- The Whole World Is Watching as Walter Nichols
1968
- The Name of the Game as Arthur Jellicoe
- The Sound of Anger as Walter Nichols
- Pinocchio as Geppetto
- The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde as Narrator (voice)
1967
- Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon as Phineas T. Barnum
1966
- The Daydreamer as Father Neptune (voice)
1965
1964
- Daniel Boone as Prater Beaseley
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as Sam the Snowman (voice)
- Ensign Pulver as Captain Morton
- The Brass Bottle as Fakrash
1963
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- Summer Magic as Osh Popham
- I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Spiral Road as Dr. Brits Jansen
- Mediterranean Holiday as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
1960
- Our Man in Havana as Dr. Hasselbacher
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- Day of the Outlaw as Jack Bruhn
1958
- The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
- Desire Under the Elms as Éphraïm Cabot
- Wind Across the Everglades as Cottonmouth
- Fun in the Big Country as Self
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jonathan J. Dwire
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- The Power and the Prize as George Salt
1955
- East of Eden as Sam the Sheriff
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as King David
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Sierra as Lonesome
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Station West as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Green Grass of Wyoming as Gus
- So Dear to My Heart as Uncle Hiram Douglas
1946
- Smoky as Willie
1940
- Tall Tales as Self