Burl Ives

DOB: 1909-06-14

DOD: 1995-04-14

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.

Starred In

1955
Movie

East of Eden

1984
Movie

The Ewok Adventure

1988
Movie

Two Moon Junction

1976
Movie

Baker's Hawk

1960
Movie

Our Man in Havana

1958
Movie

The Big Country

1964
Movie

Ensign Pulver

1948
Movie

Station West

1959
Movie

Day of the Outlaw

1964
Movie

The Brass Bottle

1982
Movie

White Dog

1978
Movie

The Bermuda Depths

1970
Movie

The McMasters

1950
Movie

Sierra

1962
Movie

The Spiral Road

1946
Movie

Smoky

1966
Movie

The Daydreamer

1963
Movie

Summer Magic

1968
Movie

The Sound of Anger

1975
Movie

Gifts of an Eagle

1975
Movie

Hugo the Hippo

1986
Movie

Uphill All the Way

1984
Movie

DTV: Golden Oldies

1989
Movie

Thomas Hart Benton

1981
Movie

Earthbound

1968
Movie

Pinocchio

1940
Movie

Tall Tales

1970
Tv

Night Gallery

1964
Tv

Daniel Boone

1953
Tv

The Oscars

1982
Tv

Wogan