Burl Ives
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.
Born: June 14, 1909
Place of Birth: Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
as Himself
as F.W. Woolworth
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
as Sheriff John Catledge
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Carruthers
as Self
as Ned Anderson
as Max
as Grandfather
as Dr. Paulis
as Mr. McGraw
as Old Syrup
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
as Old Man Doubleday
as T.M. Trask
as McMasters
as Walter Nicholls
as Self
as Walter Nichols
as Walter Nichols
as Geppetto
as Arthur Jellicoe
as Narrator (voice)
as Phineas T. Barnum
as Father Neptune (voice)
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
as Prater Beaseley
as Captain Morton
as Fakrash
as Self
as Self
as Osh Popham
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
as Dr. Brits Jansen
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
as Dr. Hasselbacher
as Jack Bruhn
as Self
as Rufus Hannassey
as Cottonmouth
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
as Éphraïm Cabot
as Self
as Captain Keller
as Self
as Jonathan J. Dwire
as George Salt
as Sam the Sheriff
as Self
as King David
as Lonesome
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
as Self
as Gus
as Willie
as Self