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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.
Filmography
all 74
Movies 49
TV Shows 25
self 18
Voice 3
Narrator 3
My Music: A Classic Christmas (2019)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989)
Two Moon Junction (1988)
Uphill All the Way (1986)
The Ewok Adventure (1984)
White Dog (1982)
Wogan (1982)
Earthbound (1981)
The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Baker's Hawk (1976)
Captains and the Kings (1976)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
Tennessee Williams' South (1973)
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Night Gallery (1970)
The McMasters (1970)
The Whole World Is Watching (1969)
The Sound of Anger (1968)
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1968)
Pinocchio (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
The Daydreamer (1966)
O.K. Crackerby (1965)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Daniel Boone (1964)
Ensign Pulver (1964)
The Brass Bottle (1964)
Summer Magic (1963)
Mediterranean Holiday (1962)
The Spiral Road (1962)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Our Man in Havana (1960)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
The Big Country (1958)
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
The Power and the Prize (1956)
East of Eden (1955)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Sierra (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
Station West (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Smoky (1946)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1909-06-14
Deathday1995-04-14 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceHunt City, United States
ChildrenSteven Paul
FatherFrank Ives
MotherDellie White
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsBurl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
AwardsGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording
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