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Burl Ives

Burl Ives

Actor · 1909 – 1995 · Hunt City, Illinois, USA

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.

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  • Movie7.5

    East of Eden

    1955 · 834 votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Big Country

    1958 · 428 votes

  • Movie7.4
  • Movie6.1

    Two Moon Junction

    1988 · 223 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Ewok Adventure

    1984 · 434 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    1958 · 866 votes

  • Movie6.6

    White Dog

    1982 · 311 votes

  • Movie6.6

    So Dear to My Heart

    1948 · 52 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Day of the Outlaw

    1959 · 114 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Desire Under the Elms

    1958 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Our Man in Havana

    1960 · 127 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Spiral Road

    1962 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie6.7

    Summer Magic

    1963 · 54 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie9.0
  • Movie6.2
  • Movie4.6

    The McMasters

    1970 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Station West

    1948 · 27 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie5.6

    Uphill All the Way

    1986 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Bermuda Depths

    1978 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Just You and Me, Kid

    1979 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.0

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  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.2
  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV7.0

    Alias Smith and Jones

    1971 · 33 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Danny Kaye Show

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV5.0

    The Hollywood Palace

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.4

    Roots

    1977 · 252 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV6.5

    The Johnny Cash Show

    1969 · 4 votes

  • TV5.7
  • TV10.0

    The Bobby Darin Show

    1973 · 1 votes

  • TV8.8

    Captains and the Kings

    1976 · 4 votes