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