Burl Ives
Age: 85 | From: Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1909-06-14 22:21:50
Death: 1995-04-14 22:21:50
Aliases: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 33
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
Daniel Boone
(1964) Prater Beaseley
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Jonathan J. Dwire
Night Gallery
(1970) Old Man Doubleday
The Oscars
(1953) Self
The Name of the Game
(1968) Arthur Jellicoe
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
(1964) Sam the Snowman (voice)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | Big Daddy (archive footage) | |
| 1989 | Himself | |
| F.W. Woolworth | ||
| 1988 | Sheriff Earl Hawkins | |
| 1986 | Sheriff John Catledge | |
| 1985 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1984 | Himself | |
| 1982 | Carruthers | |
| Self | ||
| 1981 | Ned Anderson | |
| 1979 | Max | |
| 1978 | Grandfather | |
| Dr. Paulis | ||
| 1976 | Mr. McGraw | |
| Old Syrup | ||
| Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice) | ||
| 1975 | Narrator - Vocalist (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1973 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | N/A | |
| 1970 | Old Man Doubleday | |
| T.M. Trask | ||
| McMasters | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1969 | Self | |
| Walter Nichols | ||
| Self | ||
| 1968 | Walter Nicholls | |
| Walter Nichols | ||
| Geppetto | ||
| Arthur Jellicoe | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1967 | Phineas T. Barnum | |
| 1966 | Father Neptune (voice) | |
| 1965 | N/A | |
| 1964 | Sam the Snowman (voice) | |
| Prater Beaseley | ||
| Captain Morton | ||
| Fakrash | ||
| Self | ||
| 1963 | Self | |
| Osh Popham | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | Narrator (US Version) (voice) | |
| Dr. Brits Jansen | ||
| 1960 | Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan | |
| Dr. Hasselbacher | ||
| 1959 | Jack Bruhn | |
| 1958 | Rufus Hannassey | |
| Cottonmouth | ||
| Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt | ||
| Éphraïm Cabot | ||
| Self | ||
| 1956 | Self | |
| Jonathan J. Dwire | ||
| George Salt | ||
| 1955 | Sam the Sheriff | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| King David | ||
| 1950 | Lonesome | |
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1948 | Uncle Hiram Douglas | |
| Hotel Clerk | ||
| Self - Singer | ||
| Self | ||
| Gus | ||
| 1946 | Willie | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
