Burl Ives
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.155 |
| Birthday | 1909-06-14 |
| Place of Birth | Hunt City, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Бёрл Айвз, |
1955
East of Eden
7.5/757
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East of Eden
1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7.7/768
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 w...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1984
The Ewok Adventure
5.895/382
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
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The Ewok Adventure
1988
Two Moon Junction
6/191
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...
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Two Moon Junction
1976
Baker's Hawk
6.2/6
When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence on his own.
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Baker's Hawk
1960
Our Man in Havana
6.7/108
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t ve...
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Our Man in Havana
1979
Just You and Me, Kid
5.5/15
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
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Just You and Me, Kid
1958
The Big Country
7.583/361
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, a...
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The Big Country
1964
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
7.396/600
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1948
So Dear to My Heart
6.5/44
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcom...
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So Dear to My Heart
1964
Ensign Pulver
6.6/15
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work...
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Ensign Pulver
1948
Station West
6.1/24
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging t...
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Station West
1959
Day of the Outlaw
6.8/100
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Day of the Outlaw
1976
The First Easter Rabbit
5.5/10
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.
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The First Easter Rabbit
1964
The Brass Bottle
6.2/23
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
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The Brass Bottle
1969
The Whole World Is Watching
0/0
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The Whole World Is Watching
1982
White Dog
6.7/266
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
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White Dog
1967
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
5.45/30
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbi...
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1948
Green Grass of Wyoming
6.6/13
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
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Green Grass of Wyoming
1958
Wind Across the Everglades
6.1/26
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted agains...
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Wind Across the Everglades
1978
The Bermuda Depths
5/23
Scientists pursuing the mysteries of the deep are threatened by a beautiful girl who seems to have returned from the dead and by a prehistoric sea cre...
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The Bermuda Depths
1970
The McMasters
4.4/8
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his...
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The McMasters
1958
Desire Under the Elms
6.8/20
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons...
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Desire Under the Elms
1958
Fun in the Big Country
0/0
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
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Fun in the Big Country
1950
Sierra
5.3/16
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change...
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Sierra
1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
6.1/7
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1962
The Spiral Road
5.2/10
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The Spiral Road
1956
The Power and the Prize
5.5/4
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
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The Power and the Prize
1968
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
5/2
Quasi-documentay on Bonnie and Clyde... Larry Buchanan style!
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1973
Tennessee Williams' South
10/1
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Tennessee Williams' South
1970
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
5/1
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
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1946
Smoky
5.2/5
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Smoky
1966
The Daydreamer
5/10
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The Daydreamer
1963
Summer Magic
6.67/47
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up...
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Summer Magic
1968
The Sound of Anger
0/0
Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
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The Sound of Anger
1975
Gifts of an Eagle
0/0
In the mid-1950s, with a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, wild bird trainer Ed Durden and his eighteen-year-old son, Kent Durden, cap...
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Gifts of an Eagle
1975
Hugo the Hippo
6.6/9
The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he...
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Hugo the Hippo
1986
Uphill All the Way
4.8/6
Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.
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Uphill All the Way
1984
DTV: Golden Oldies
0/0
Compilation of DTV music videos from on The Disney Channel, combining tunes from the 1940s through the 1960s with footage of Disney animation.
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1989
Thomas Hart Benton
8.3/3
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people...
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1962
Mediterranean Holiday
8/3
A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.
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Mediterranean Holiday
1978
The New Adventures of Heidi
4/2
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The New Adventures of Heidi
1963
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
5.5/2
A nonsense song, sung by Burl Ives and given unrestrained interpretation by the cartoonist. Of course, by the time the song ends the old lady has swal...
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1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
0/0
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1981
Earthbound
3.3/3
A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
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2019
My Music: A Classic Christmas
7.5/2
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My Music: A Classic Christmas
1968
Pinocchio
0/0
Pinocchio is a musical version of the story that aired in the United States on NBC, with pop star Peter Noone playing the puppet.
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Pinocchio
2024
The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
0/0
Ten Musical Yuletide treasures featuring the voices of Fred Astaire, Jimmy Durante and Burl Ives. Create A tuneful new family tradition with this fest...
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The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
1940
Tall Tales
0/0
The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White, Bur...
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