Burl Ives

Known for ActingBorn 1909-06-14Died 1995-04-14Hunt City, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tennessee Williams' South

The Bobby Darin Show

O.K. Crackerby

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

The Whole World Is Watching

Captains and the Kings

Mediterranean Holiday

The Smothers Brothers Summer Show

Thomas Hart Benton

My Music: A Classic Christmas

The Sound of Anger

Little House on the Prairie

The Bell Telephone Hour

Night Gallery

The Wonderful World of Disney

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever

The Big Country

Roots

East of Eden

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Alias Smith and Jones

The Name of the Game

Daniel Boone

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

The Danny Kaye Show

Baker's Hawk

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Day of the Outlaw

White Dog

General Electric Theater

Desire Under the Elms

The Ed Sullivan Show

Our Man in Havana

Green Grass of Wyoming

Summer Magic

Ensign Pulver

The Merv Griffin Show

The Johnny Cash Show

So Dear to My Heart

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Brass Bottle

Two Moon Junction

Station West

The Power and the Prize