1909-06-14 Hunt 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.
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My Music: A Classic Christmas | Self (archive footage) | 2019-11-16 |
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Big Daddy (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
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Thomas Hart Benton | Himself | 1989-10-31 |
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Two Moon Junction | Sheriff Earl Hawkins | 1988-04-29 |
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Uphill All the Way | Sheriff John Catledge | 1986-01-01 |
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The Ewok Adventure | Narrator (voice) | 1984-11-25 |
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DTV: Golden Oldies | Himself | 1984-09-01 |
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White Dog | Carruthers | 1982-07-07 |
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Earthbound | Ned Anderson | 1981-01-27 |
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Just You and Me, Kid | Max | 1979-07-13 |
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The New Adventures of Heidi | Grandfather | 1978-12-13 |
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The Bermuda Depths | Dr. Paulis | 1978-01-27 |
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The First Easter Rabbit | Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice) | 1976-04-09 |
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Baker's Hawk | Mr. McGraw | 1976-12-12 |
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Hugó, a víziló | Narrator - Vocalist (voice) | 1975-12-25 |
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Gifts of an Eagle | 1975-12-12 | |
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Tennessee Williams' South | 1973-01-01 | |
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The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever | T.M. Trask | 1970-12-16 |
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The McMasters | McMasters | 1970-04-23 |
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The Whole World Is Watching | Walter Nichols | 1969-03-11 |
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde | Narrator (voice) | 1968-08-22 |
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The Sound of Anger | Walter Nichols | 1968-12-10 |
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Pinocchio | Geppetto | 1968-12-08 |
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon | Phineas T. Barnum | 1967-07-13 |
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The Daydreamer | Father Neptune (voice) | 1966-06-01 |
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The Brass Bottle | Fakrash | 1964-05-20 |
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Ensign Pulver | Captain Morton | 1964-07-31 |
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Sam the Snowman (voice) | 1964-12-06 |
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | 1963-01-01 | |
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Summer Magic | Osh Popham | 1963-07-07 |
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The Spiral Road | Dr. Brits Jansen | 1962-08-03 |
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Flying Clipper - Traumreise unter weißen Segeln | Narrator (US Version) (voice) | 1962-12-19 |
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan | 1960-11-10 |
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Our Man in Havana | Dr. Hasselbacher | 1960-01-27 |
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Day of the Outlaw | Jack Bruhn | 1959-07-01 |
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Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt | 1958-08-29 |
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Wind Across the Everglades | Cottonmouth | 1958-09-11 |
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Desire Under the Elms | Éphraïm Cabot | 1958-03-12 |
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The Big Country | Rufus Hannassey | 1958-09-30 |
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The Power and the Prize | George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
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East of Eden | Sam the Sheriff | 1955-04-10 |
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Sierra | Lonesome | 1950-05-26 |
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Green Grass of Wyoming | Gus | 1948-06-03 |
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So Dear to My Heart | Uncle Hiram Douglas | 1948-11-29 |
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Station West | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | 1948-09-01 |
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Smoky | Willie | 1946-06-26 |
