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Burl Ives

Acting Born Jun 14, 1909 Hunt City, Illinois, USA 24 credits

Biography

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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.

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Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Little House on the Prairie

as Sam Shelby

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Daniel Boone

as Prater Beaseley
Film

Men of Honor

as Arthur Jellicoe
Film

The Hoax

as Self

Full filmography

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
  • Little House on the Prairie (1974) as Sam Shelby
  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956) as Jonathan J. Dwire
  • Wogan (1982) as Self
  • The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
  • Daniel Boone (1964) as Prater Beaseley
  • Night Gallery (1970) as Old Man Doubleday
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self
  • The Oscars (1953) as Self
  • The Name of the Game (1968) as Arthur Jellicoe
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) as Self
  • Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
  • Roots (1977) as Senator Arthur J. Justin
  • The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) as Self
  • The Danny Kaye Show (1963) as Self
  • The Hollywood Palace (1964) as Self
  • The Bell Telephone Hour (1959) as Self
  • The Bell Telephone Hour (1959) as Self - Host
  • The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969) as Self
  • The Johnny Cash Show (1969) as Self
  • Captains and the Kings (1976) as Old Syrup
  • Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989) as F.W. Woolworth