Burl Ives
Acting
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.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
Age 55 (now 85)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
Age 58 (now 85)
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
Age 110 (now 85)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
Age 85
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
as Himself
Age 71 (now 85)
The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Age 66 (now 85)
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
Age 61 (now 85)
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
Age 59 (now 85) Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
Age 58 (now 85)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
Age 55 (now 85)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
Age 53 (now 85)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Age 51 (now 85)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as F.W. Woolworth
Age 79 (now 85)
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
as Walter Nicholls
Age 60 (now 85)
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
Age 59 (now 85)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 53 (now 85)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jonathan J. Dwire
Age 47 (now 85)
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Also Known As
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
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