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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 Christmas
as Self (archive footage)

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)

Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as F.W. Woolworth

Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins

A Down Home Country Christmas
as Self

Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge

The Ewok Adventure
as Narrator (voice)

DTV: Golden Oldies
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White Dog
as Carruthers

Wogan
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Earthbound
as Ned Anderson

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
as Himself

Just You and Me, Kid
as Max

The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather

The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis

Roots
as Senator Arthur J. Justin

Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw

Captains and the Kings
as Old Syrup

The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Gifts of an Eagle

Little House on the Prairie
as Sam Shelby

The Bobby Darin Show

Tennessee Williams' South

Alias Smith and Jones

Night Gallery
as Old Man Doubleday

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show

The McMasters
as McMasters

The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
as Walter Nicholls

The Johnny Cash Show
as Self

The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self

The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols

Pinocchio
as Geppetto

The Name of the Game
as Arthur Jellicoe

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum

The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)

O.K. Crackerby

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)

Daniel Boone
as Prater Beaseley

Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton

The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash

The Hollywood Palace
as Self

The Danny Kaye Show
as Self

Summer Magic
as Osh Popham

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)

The Merv Griffin Show
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self

The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen

Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan

Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher

Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn

The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self

Wind Across the Everglades
as Cottonmouth

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey

Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot