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.
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Big Daddy (archive footage)
Thomas Hart Benton
Himself
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
A Down Home Country Christmas
Self
Uphill All the Way
Sheriff John Catledge
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
DTV: Golden Oldies
Self
White Dog
Carruthers
Earthbound
Ned Anderson
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
The New Adventures of Heidi
Grandfather
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
Baker's Hawk
Mr. McGraw
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Gifts of an Eagle
Tennessee Williams' South
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
T.M. Trask
The McMasters
McMasters
The Whole World Is Watching
Walter Nichols
The Sound of Anger
Walter Nichols
Pinocchio
Geppetto
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Narrator (voice)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
The Daydreamer
Father Neptune (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
Summer Magic
Osh Popham
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Mediterranean Holiday
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The Spiral Road
Dr. Brits Jansen
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm Cabot
Fun in the Big Country
Self
The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller
The Power and the Prize
George Salt
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
Sierra
Lonesome
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
Smoky
Willie
Tall Tales
Self