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.
50 movies · 28 shows
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019·7.5
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994·9.0
Thomas Hart Benton
1989·7.8
Two Moon Junction
1988·6.1
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987·0.0
Uphill All the Way
1986·5.6
The Ewok Adventure
1984·5.9
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984·0.0
White Dog
1982·6.6
Earthbound
1981·5.0
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981·0.0
Just You and Me, Kid
1979·5.4
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978·5.0
The Bermuda Depths
1978·5.5
Baker's Hawk
1976·6.8
The First Easter Rabbit
1976·5.8
Gifts of an Eagle
1975·0.0
Tennessee Williams' South
1973·10.0
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970·7.5
The McMasters
1970·4.6
The Whole World Is Watching
1969·9.0
The Sound of Anger
1968·8.0
Pinocchio
1968·0.0
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968·6.0
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967·5.5
The Daydreamer
1966·5.1
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964·7.4
Ensign Pulver
1964·6.6
The Brass Bottle
1964·6.3
Summer Magic
1963·6.7
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963·7.0
Mediterranean Holiday
1962·8.0
The Spiral Road
1962·5.5
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960·5.9
Our Man in Havana
1960·6.7
Day of the Outlaw
1959·6.8
Wind Across the Everglades
1958·6.2
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958·7.6
The Big Country
1958·7.6
Desire Under the Elms
1958·6.8
Fun in the Big Country
1958·0.0
The Miracle Worker
1957·0.0
The Power and the Prize
1956·6.3
East of Eden
1955·7.5
Sierra
1950·5.4
So Dear to My Heart
1948·6.6
Station West
1948·6.4
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948·6.8
Smoky
1946·5.7
Tall Tales
1940·0.0