Burl Ives

Acting Jun 14, 1909 Apr 14, 1995 (aged 86) 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.

80 Acting Credits

Acting

Little House on the Prairie

as Sam Shelby

1974

Burl Ives

Acting

Little House on the Prairie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

East of Eden

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The Ewok Adventure

The Big Country

White Dog

Roots

Two Moon Junction

Our Man in Havana

Day of the Outlaw

Night Gallery

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Oscars

Summer Magic

So Dear to My Heart

The Wonderful World of Disney

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Alias Smith and Jones

Daniel Boone

Wind Across the Everglades

What's My Line?

Station West

Desire Under the Elms