Burl Ives
Acting
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.
Born: June 14, 1909
Place of Birth: Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Known For
Tennessee Williams' South
The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his later-day writing quarters in Key West. Also, dramatizations by distinguished actors -- including Jessica Tandy, Broadway's original Blanche DuBois, in a recreation of her A Streetcar Named Desire triumph -- give flesh-and-bone immediacy to some of the writer's famed works. In his own words. In his own places. The resilient character and memorable characters of one of our greatest writers reside in Tennessee Williams' South.
Captains and the Kings
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
Mediterranean Holiday
A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.
Night Gallery
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
The Big Country
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
East of Eden
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Gavin MacLeod and Marion Ross host a Christmas celebration that features classic performances of popular holiday standards and traditional carols performed, throughout decades past, by an array of artists, including Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Gene Autry, Jimmy Boyd, the Supremes, Rosemary Clooney, the Lennon Sisters, Burl Ives, Mahalia Jackson, Mitzi Gaynor, Julie Andrews, the Beach Boys, the Carpenters, Jose Feliciano, the Drifters, Ronnie Spector, the Harry Simeone Chorale, and David Bowie.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
as Himself
as F.W. Woolworth
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
as Sheriff John Catledge
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Carruthers
as Self
as Ned Anderson
as Himself
as Max
as Grandfather
as Dr. Paulis
as Senator Arthur J. Justin
as Mr. McGraw
as Old Syrup
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
as Old Man Doubleday
as T.M. Trask
as McMasters
as Walter Nicholls
as Self
as Walter Nichols
as Walter Nichols
as Geppetto
as Arthur Jellicoe
as Narrator (voice)
as Phineas T. Barnum
as Father Neptune (voice)
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
as Prater Beaseley
as Captain Morton
as Fakrash
as Self
as Self
as Osh Popham
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
as Self
as Dr. Brits Jansen
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
as Dr. Hasselbacher
as Jack Bruhn
as Self
as Rufus Hannassey
as Cottonmouth
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
as Éphraïm Cabot
as Self
as Captain Keller
as Self
as Jonathan J. Dwire
as George Salt
as Sam the Sheriff
as Self
as King David
as Lonesome
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
as Self
as Gus
as Willie
as Self