
Burl Ives
Biography
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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.
Acting (47 movies)

East of Eden
1955

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958

The Ewok Adventure
1984

Two Moon Junction
1988

Baker's Hawk
1976

Our Man in Havana
1960

Just You and Me, Kid
1979

The Big Country
1958

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964

So Dear to My Heart
1948

Ensign Pulver
1964

Station West
1948

Day of the Outlaw
1959

The First Easter Rabbit
1976

The Brass Bottle
1964

The Whole World Is Watching
1969

White Dog
1982

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967

Green Grass of Wyoming
1948

Wind Across the Everglades
1958

The Bermuda Depths
1978

The McMasters
1970

Desire Under the Elms
1958

Fun in the Big Country
1958

Sierra
1950

Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960

The Spiral Road
1962

The Power and the Prize
1956

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968

Tennessee Williams' South
1973

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970

Smoky
1946

The Daydreamer
1966

Summer Magic
1963

The Sound of Anger
1968

Uphill All the Way
1986

DTV: Golden Oldies
1984

Thomas Hart Benton
1989

Mediterranean Holiday
1962

The New Adventures of Heidi
1978

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994

Earthbound
1981

My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019

Pinocchio
1968

Tall Tales
1940

The Miracle Worker
1957
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