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.
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
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Thomas Hart Benton
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Two Moon Junction
Uphill All the Way
The Ewok Adventure
White Dog
Wogan
Earthbound
Just You and Me, Kid
The New Adventures of Heidi
The Bermuda Depths
Baker's Hawk
Captains and the Kings
The First Easter Rabbit
Hugo the Hippo
The Bobby Darin Show
Tennessee Williams' South
Alias Smith and Jones
Night Gallery
The McMasters
The Johnny Cash Show
The Whole World Is Watching
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Pinocchio
The Name of the Game
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
The Daydreamer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Daniel Boone
Ensign Pulver
The Brass Bottle
The Hollywood Palace
The Danny Kaye Show
Summer Magic
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Mediterranean Holiday
The Spiral Road
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Our Man in Havana
Day of the Outlaw
The Big Country
Wind Across the Everglades
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Desire Under the Elms
Fun in the Big Country
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Power and the Prize
East of Eden
The Wonderful World of Disney: Presented by Disney+
The Oscars
General Electric Theater
Sierra
What's My Line?
So Dear to My Heart
Station West
The Ed Sullivan Show
Green Grass of Wyoming
Smoky