Burl Ives
Birthday
1909/06/14
Day of death
1995/04/14 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз
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...Read more
Acting
(1955) East of Eden
as Sam the Sheriff
(1958) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
(1984) The Ewok Adventure
as Narrator (voice)
(1988) Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
(1976) Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw
(1960) Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher
(1979) Just You and Me, Kid
as Max
(1958) The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey
(1964) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
(1948) So Dear to My Heart
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
(1964) Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton
(1948) Station West
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
(1959) Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn
(1976) The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
(1964) The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash
(1969) The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols
(1982) White Dog
as Carruthers
(1967) Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
(1948) Green Grass of Wyoming
as Gus
(1958) Wind Across the Everglades
as Cottonmouth
(1978) The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis
(1970) The McMasters
as McMasters
(1958) Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot
(1958) Fun in the Big Country
as Self
(1950) Sierra
as Lonesome
(1960) Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
(1962) The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen
(1956) The Power and the Prize
as George Salt
(1968) The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
(1973) Tennessee Williams' South
as ---
(1970) The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
(1946) Smoky
as Willie
(1966) The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)
(1963) Summer Magic
as Osh Popham
(1968) The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols
(1975) Gifts of an Eagle
as ---
(1986) Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge
(1984) DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
(1989) Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself
(1962) Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
(1978) The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather
(1963) I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
as ---
(1994) Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
(1981) Earthbound
as Ned Anderson
(2019) My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
(1968) Pinocchio
as Geppetto
(1940) Tall Tales
as Self
(1957) The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as ---
(1970) Night Gallery
as Old Man Doubleday
(1953) General Electric Theater
as King David
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Prater Beaseley
(1964) The Hollywood Palace
as Self
(1969) The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
(1969) The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jonathan J. Dwire
(1969) The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
as Walter Nicholls
(1976) Captains and the Kings
as Old Syrup
(1970) The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
as ---
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1973) The Bobby Darin Show
as ---
(1965) O.K. Crackerby
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as ---
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1989) Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as F.W. Woolworth
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Arthur Jellicoe
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1959) The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1963) The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
(1977) Roots
as Senator Arthur J. Justin