Burl Ives
Born June 14, 1909 (Age: 116)
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Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
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as Big Daddy (archive footage)
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Age: 85
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
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as Himself
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Age: 80
Two Moon Junction
1988
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as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
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Age: 78
A Down Home Country Christmas
1987
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as Self
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Age: 78
White Dog
1982
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as Carruthers
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Age: 73
Earthbound
1981
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as Ned Anderson
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Age: 71
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
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as Himself
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Age: 71
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
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as Grandfather
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Age: 69
The Bermuda Depths
1978
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as Dr. Paulis
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Age: 68
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
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as
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Age: 63
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
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as Walter Nichols
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Age: 59
Pinocchio
1968
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as Geppetto
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Age: 59
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
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as Sam the Snowman (voice)
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Age: 55
Ensign Pulver
1964
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as Captain Morton
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Age: 55
The Brass Bottle
1964
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as Fakrash
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Age: 54
Summer Magic
1963
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as Osh Popham
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Age: 54
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
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as
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Age: 53
Mediterranean Holiday
1962
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as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
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Age: 53
The Spiral Road
1962
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as Dr. Brits Jansen
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Age: 53
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
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as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
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Age: 51
Our Man in Havana
1960
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as Dr. Hasselbacher
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Age: 50
Day of the Outlaw
1959
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as Jack Bruhn
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Age: 49
The Big Country
1958
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as Rufus Hannassey
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Age: 49
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
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as Cottonmouth
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Age: 49
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
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as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
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Age: 49
Desire Under the Elms
1958
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as Éphraïm Cabot
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Age: 48
Fun in the Big Country
1958
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as Self
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Age: 48
The Power and the Prize
1956
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as George Salt
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Age: 47
East of Eden
1955
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as Sam the Sheriff
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Age: 45
Sierra
1950
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as Lonesome
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Age: 40