Burl Ives [2753] Gender: Male Popularity: 2.8752 Birthplace: Hunt City, Illinois, USA Birthday: 1909-06-14 Deathday: 1995-04-14 Age: 85 years Movies: 47 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. My Music: A Classic Chr2019-11-16 Tennessee Williams: Orp1994-12-19 Thomas Hart Benton1989-10-31 Two Moon Junction1988-04-29 Uphill All the Way1986-01-01 The Ewok Adventure1984-12-21 White Dog1982-07-07 Earthbound1981-01-27 Just You and Me, Kid1979-07-13 The New Adventures of H1978-12-13 The Bermuda Depths1978-01-27 Baker's Hawk1976-12-12 The First Easter Rabbit1976-04-09 Hugo the Hippo1975-12-25 Gifts of an Eagle1975-12-12 Tennessee Williams' Sou1973-01-01 The Man Who Wanted to L1970-12-16 The McMasters1970-04-23 The Whole World Is Watc1969-03-11 The Sound of Anger1968-12-10 Pinocchio1968-12-08 The Other Side of Bonni1968-08-22 Jules Verne's Rocket to1967-07-13 The Daydreamer1966-06-01 Rudolph the Red-Nosed R1964-12-06 Ensign Pulver1964-07-31 The Brass Bottle1964-05-20 Summer Magic1963-07-07 I Know an Old Lady Who 1963-01-01 Mediterranean Holiday1962-12-19 The Spiral Road1962-08-03 Let No Man Write My Epi1960-11-10 Our Man in Havana1960-01-27 Day of the Outlaw1959-07-01 The Big Country1958-09-30 Wind Across the Evergla1958-09-11 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958-08-29 Desire Under the Elms1958-03-12 Fun in the Big Country1958-01-01 The Power and the Prize1956-09-26 East of Eden1955-04-10 Sierra1950-05-26 So Dear to My Heart1948-11-29 Station West1948-09-01 Green Grass of Wyoming1948-06-03 Smoky1946-06-26 Tall Tales1940-01-01