From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBurl 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 Berlins 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, Ivess 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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Baker's Hawk

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Poster movie Just You and Me, Kid

Just You and Me, Kid

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Poster movie Ensign Pulver

Ensign Pulver

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Poster movie The Whole World Is Watching

The Whole World Is Watchi

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Poster movie Green Grass of Wyoming

Green Grass of Wyoming

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The Spiral Road

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Summer Magic

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Hugo the Hippo

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Captains and the Kings

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East of Eden

Sam the Sheriff

Movie 1955

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

Movie 1958

The Ewok Adventure

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1984

Two Moon Junction

Sheriff Earl Hawkins

Movie 1988

Our Man in Havana

Dr. Hasselbacher

Movie 1960

The Big Country

Rufus Hannassey

Movie 1958

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Sam the Snowman (voice)

Movie 1964

So Dear to My Heart

Uncle Hiram Douglas

Movie 1948

Station West

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Movie 1948

Day of the Outlaw

Jack Bruhn

Movie 1959

The First Easter Rabbit

Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)

Movie 1976

The Brass Bottle

Fakrash

Movie 1964

White Dog

Carruthers

Movie 1982

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Phineas T. Barnum

Movie 1967

Wind Across the Everglades

Cottonmouth

Movie 1958

The Bermuda Depths

Dr. Paulis

Movie 1978

The McMasters

McMasters

Movie 1970

Desire Under the Elms

Éphraïm Cabot

Movie 1958

Fun in the Big Country

Self

Movie 1958

Sierra

Lonesome

Movie 1950

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan

Movie 1960

The Power and the Prize

George Salt

Movie 1956

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1968

Tennessee Williams' South

Movie 1973

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever

T.M. Trask

Movie 1970

Smoky

Willie

Movie 1946

The Daydreamer

Father Neptune (voice)

Movie 1966

The Sound of Anger

Walter Nichols

Movie 1968

Gifts of an Eagle

Movie 1975

Uphill All the Way

Sheriff John Catledge

Movie 1986

DTV: Golden Oldies

Self

Movie 1984

Thomas Hart Benton

Himself

Movie 1989

Mediterranean Holiday

Narrator (US Version) (voice)

Movie 1962

The New Adventures of Heidi

Grandfather

Movie 1978

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Movie 1963

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Big Daddy (archive footage)

Movie 1994

Earthbound

Ned Anderson

Movie 1981

My Music: A Classic Christmas

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2019

Pinocchio

Geppetto

Movie 1968

The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along

Movie 2024

Tall Tales

Self

Movie 1940

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Alias Smith and Jones

Tv 1971

The Wonderful World of Disney

Tv 1954

Night Gallery

Old Man Doubleday

Tv 1970

General Electric Theater

King David

Tv 1953

Daniel Boone

Prater Beaseley

Tv 1964

The Hollywood Palace

Self

Tv 1964

The Johnny Cash Show

Self

Tv 1969

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Self

Tv 1969

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self

Tv 1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Jonathan J. Dwire

Tv 1956

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers

Walter Nicholls

Tv 1968

The Smothers Brothers Summer Show

Tv 1970

The Oscars

Self

Tv 1953

The Bobby Darin Show

Tv 1973

O.K. Crackerby

Tv 1965

General Electric Theater

Tv 1953

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

F.W. Woolworth

Tv 1989

Wogan

Self

Tv 1982

The Name of the Game

Arthur Jellicoe

Tv 1968

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Self

Tv 1957

The Bell Telephone Hour

Self

Tv 1959

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

Tv 1950

The Danny Kaye Show

Self

Tv 1963