Burl Ives

Burl Ives

Birthday: 1909-06-14

Deathday: 1995-04-14

Place of birth: Hunt City, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз

imdb_id: nm0412322

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.

Played in movies:

Tennessee Williams' South

Score: 10.0

Mediterranean Holiday

Score: 8.0

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Score: 7.7

The Big Country

Score: 7.6

My Music: A Classic Christmas

Score: 7.5

Thomas Hart Benton

Score: 7.5

East of Eden

Score: 7.5

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Score: 7.4

Desire Under the Elms

Score: 6.9

Day of the Outlaw

Score: 6.8

Summer Magic

Score: 6.7

Our Man in Havana

Score: 6.7

Green Grass of Wyoming

Score: 6.6

White Dog

Score: 6.6

Ensign Pulver

Score: 6.6

So Dear to My Heart

Score: 6.5

Baker's Hawk

Score: 6.2

The Brass Bottle

Score: 6.1

Station West

Score: 6.1

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Score: 6.1

Wind Across the Everglades

Score: 6.1

Two Moon Junction

Score: 6.1

The Ewok Adventure

Score: 5.9

The First Easter Rabbit

Score: 5.6

Just You and Me, Kid

Score: 5.6

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Score: 5.5

The Power and the Prize

Score: 5.5

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Score: 5.5

Sierra

Score: 5.3

Smoky

Score: 5.2

The Spiral Road

Score: 5.2

The Bermuda Depths

Score: 5.1

The Daydreamer

Score: 5.0

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever

Score: 5.0

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

Score: 5.0

The McMasters

Score: 4.4

Uphill All the Way

Score: 4.3

The New Adventures of Heidi

Score: 4.0

Earthbound

Score: 3.3

Tall Tales

Score: 0.0

Pinocchio

Score: 0.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Score: 0.0

DTV: Golden Oldies

Score: 0.0

Gifts of an Eagle

Score: 0.0

The Sound of Anger

Score: 0.0

Fun in the Big Country

Score: 0.0

The Whole World Is Watching

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Captains and the Kings

Score: 8.3

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Night Gallery

Score: 7.8

The Bell Telephone Hour

Score: 7.3

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

Daniel Boone

Score: 6.9

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Johnny Cash Show

Score: 6.5

The Danny Kaye Show

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Score: 6.0

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Score: 5.8

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

Wogan

Score: 4.5

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

Score: 4.5

The Hollywood Palace

Score: 4.5

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers

Score: 3.0

O.K. Crackerby

Score: 0.0

The Bobby Darin Show

Score: 0.0

The Smothers Brothers Summer Show

Score: 0.0