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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 ing Actor.
Ives is often ed 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 73
Movies 48
TV Shows 25
self 17
Voice 7
My Music: A Classic Christmas (2019)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
Thomas Hart Benton (1989)
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)
The First Easter Rabbit (1976)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
Night Gallery (1970)
The McMasters (1970)
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969)
The Whole World Is Watching (1969)
The Sound of Anger (1968)
Pinocchio (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
The Daydreamer (1966)
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)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
High-Low (1957)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
The Power and the Prize (1956)
East of Eden (1955)
The Oscars (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Sierra (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
Station West (1948)
Smoky (1946)
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Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-06-14
Deathday
1995-04-14 (85 years old)
Birth Place
Hunt City, United States
Children
Steven Paul
Father
Frank Ives
Mother
Dellie White
Citizenships
United States
Also Known As
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best ing Actor – Motion Picture, Academy Award for Best ing Actor, Order of Lincoln, Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording
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