Burl Ives
Acting
Born 1909-06-14
Died 1995-04-14
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
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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.
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Little House on the Prairie
What's My Line?
The Merv Griffin Show
Wogan
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Daniel Boone
The Oscars
Night Gallery
The Name of the Game
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Alias Smith and Jones
Roots
The Danny Kaye Show
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Hollywood Palace
The Wonderful World of Disney
East of Eden
The Big Country
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Captains and the Kings
The Johnny Cash Show
Two Moon Junction
The Ewok Adventure
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
White Dog
O.K. Crackerby
Our Man in Havana
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Day of the Outlaw
Tennessee Williams' South
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
General Electric Theater
So Dear to My Heart
Desire Under the Elms
Pinocchio
Station West
The Bobby Darin Show
The Bermuda Depths
Mediterranean Holiday
Summer Magic
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Wind Across the Everglades
The Spiral Road
Ensign Pulver
Just You and Me, Kid
The Whole World Is Watching
The McMasters
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Green Grass of Wyoming
Fun in the Big Country
Sierra
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
The Daydreamer
The Power and the Prize
The New Adventures of Heidi
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