Burl Ives
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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
June 14, 1909Deathday
April 14, 1995Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
47Place of birth
Hunt City, Illinois, USAAlso known as
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
Cast credits
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Baker's Hawk
Mr. McGraw
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
White Dog
Carruthers
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm CabotImages
