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Burl Ives
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…
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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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2019
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie Big Daddy (archive footage)
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1989
Thomas Hart Benton
Movie Himself
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1989
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV show F.W. Woolworth
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1988
Two Moon Junction
Movie Sheriff Earl Hawkins
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1987
A Down Home Country Christmas
Movie Self
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1986
Uphill All the Way
Movie Sheriff John Catledge
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1984
The Ewok Adventure
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1984
DTV: Golden Oldies
Movie Self
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1982
White Dog
Movie Carruthers
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1982
Wogan
TV show Self
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1981
Earthbound
Movie Ned Anderson
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1981
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Movie Himself
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1979
Just You and Me, Kid
Movie Max
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1978
The New Adventures of Heidi
Movie Grandfather
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1978
The Bermuda Depths
Movie Dr. Paulis
More credits
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1977
Roots
TV show Senator Arthur J. Justin
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1976
Baker's Hawk
Movie Mr. McGraw
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1976
Captains and the Kings
TV show Old Syrup
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1976
The First Easter Rabbit
Movie Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
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1975
Gifts of an Eagle
Movie
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1974
Little House on the Prairie
TV show Sam Shelby
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1973
The Bobby Darin Show
TV show
- 1973
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1971
Alias Smith and Jones
TV show
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show Old Man Doubleday
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1970
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Movie T.M. Trask
- 1970
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1970
The McMasters
Movie McMasters
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1969
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
TV show Walter Nicholls
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1969
The Johnny Cash Show
TV show Self
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1969
The Whole World Is Watching
Movie Walter Nichols
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1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV show Self
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1968
The Sound of Anger
Movie Walter Nichols
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1968
Pinocchio
Movie Geppetto
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1968
The Name of the Game
TV show Arthur Jellicoe
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1968
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1967
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Movie Phineas T. Barnum
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1966
The Daydreamer
Movie Father Neptune (voice)
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1965
O.K. Crackerby
TV show
