Acting · Hunt City, Illinois, USA · Born June 14, 1909
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.
MovieMy Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
MovieThomas Hart Benton
1989
as Himself
TVPoor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as F.W. Woolworth
MovieTwo Moon Junction
1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
MovieA Down Home Country Christmas
1987
as Self
MovieUphill All the Way
1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
MovieThe Ewok Adventure
1984
as Narrator (voice)
MovieDTV: Golden Oldies
1984
as Self
MovieWhite Dog
1982
as Carruthers
TVWogan
1982
as Self
MovieEarthbound
1981
as Ned Anderson
MovieSam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
as Himself
MovieJust You and Me, Kid
1979
as Max
MovieThe New Adventures of Heidi
1978
as Grandfather
MovieThe Bermuda Depths
1978
as Dr. Paulis
TVRoots
1977
as Senator Arthur J. Justin
MovieBaker's Hawk
1976
as Mr. McGraw
TVCaptains and the Kings
1976
as Old Syrup
MovieThe First Easter Rabbit
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
TVLittle House on the Prairie
1974
as Sam Shelby
TVThe Bobby Darin Show
1973
MovieTennessee Williams' South
1973
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
TVNight Gallery
1970
as Old Man Doubleday
MovieThe Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970
as T.M. Trask
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
MovieThe McMasters
1970
as McMasters
TVThe Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969
as Walter Nicholls
TVThe Johnny Cash Show
1969
as Self
MovieThe Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Walter Nichols
TVThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
MovieThe Sound of Anger
1968
as Walter Nichols
MoviePinocchio
1968
as Geppetto
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Arthur Jellicoe
MovieThe Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
as Narrator (voice)
MovieJules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
MovieThe Daydreamer
1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
TVO.K. Crackerby
1965
MovieRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Prater Beaseley
MovieEnsign Pulver
1964
as Captain Morton
MovieThe Brass Bottle
1964
as Fakrash
TVThe Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
TVThe Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
MovieSummer Magic
1963
as Osh Popham
MovieI Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
MovieMediterranean Holiday
1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
MovieThe Spiral Road
1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
MovieLet No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
MovieOur Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
MovieDay of the Outlaw
1959
as Jack Bruhn
TVThe Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self
MovieWind Across the Everglades
1958
as Cottonmouth
MovieCat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
MovieThe Big Country
1958
as Rufus Hannassey
MovieDesire Under the Elms
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
MovieFun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
MovieThe Miracle Worker
1957
as Captain Keller
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jonathan J. Dwire
MovieThe Power and the Prize
1956
as George Salt
MovieEast of Eden
1955
as Sam the Sheriff
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as King David
MovieSierra
1950
as Lonesome
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
MovieSo Dear to My Heart
1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
MovieStation West
1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieGreen Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Gus
MovieSmoky
1946
as Willie
MovieTall Tales
1940
as Self
