Burl Ives
Acting
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.
TV Shows(27)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
F.W. Woolworth
1989
Wogan
Self
1982
Roots
Senator Arthur J. Justin
1977
Captains and the Kings
Old Syrup
1976
Little House on the Prairie
Sam Shelby
1974
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Night Gallery
Old Man Doubleday
1970
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
1970
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Walter Nicholls
1969
The Johnny Cash Show
Self
1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self
1969
The Name of the Game
Arthur Jellicoe
1968
O.K. Crackerby
1965
Daniel Boone
Prater Beaseley
1964
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jonathan J. Dwire
1956
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Oscars
Self
1953
General Electric Theater
King David
1953
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Movies(50)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
2019
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Big Daddy (archive footage)
1994
Thomas Hart Benton
Himself
1989
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
1988
A Down Home Country Christmas
Self
1987
Uphill All the Way
Sheriff John Catledge
1986
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
1984
DTV: Golden Oldies
Self
1984
White Dog
Carruthers
1982
Earthbound
Ned Anderson
1981
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
1981
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
1979
The New Adventures of Heidi
Grandfather
1978
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
1978
Baker's Hawk
Mr. McGraw
1976
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
1976
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
T.M. Trask
1970
The McMasters
McMasters
1970
The Whole World Is Watching
Walter Nichols
1969
The Sound of Anger
Walter Nichols
1968
Pinocchio
Geppetto
1968
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Narrator (voice)
1968
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
1967
The Daydreamer
Father Neptune (voice)
1966
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
1964
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
1964
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
1964
Summer Magic
Osh Popham
1963
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
Mediterranean Holiday
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
1962
The Spiral Road
Dr. Brits Jansen
1962
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
1960
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
1960
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
1959
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
1958
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
1958
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm Cabot
1958
Fun in the Big Country
Self
1958
The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller
1957
The Power and the Prize
George Salt
1956
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
1955
Sierra
Lonesome
1950
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
1948
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1948
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
1948
Smoky
Willie
1946
Tall Tales
Self
1940