Burl Ives
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-06-14 (86 years old)
Deathday
1995-04-14
Place of Birth
Hunt City, Illinois, USA
Also known As
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
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Burl Ives
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 ...
Acting
1955
as Sam the Sheriff
1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
1984
as Narrator (voice)
1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
1976
as Mr. McGraw
1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
1979
as Max
1958
as Rufus Hannassey
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
1964
as Captain Morton
1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1959
as Jack Bruhn
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
1964
as Fakrash
1969
as Walter Nichols
1982
as Carruthers
1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
1948
as Gus
1958
as Cottonmouth
1978
as Dr. Paulis
1970
as McMasters
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
1958
as Self
1950
as Lonesome
1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
1956
as George Salt
1968
as Narrator (voice)
1970
as T.M. Trask
1946
as Willie
1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
1963
as Osh Popham
1968
as Walter Nichols
1975
as Narrator - Vocalist (voice)
1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
1984
as Self
1989
as Himself
1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
1978
as Grandfather
1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
1981
as Ned Anderson
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1968
as Geppetto
1940
as Self
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