Burl Ives

Burl Ives

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...

Known For

East of Eden

as Sam the Sheriff

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

as Sam the Snowman (voice)

Cast Credits

My Music: A Classic Christmas

as Self (archive footage)

Two Moon Junction

as Sheriff Earl Hawkins

Uphill All the Way

as Sheriff John Catledge

The Ewok Adventure

as Narrator (voice)

White Dog

as Carruthers

Earthbound

as Ned Anderson

The Bermuda Depths

as Dr. Paulis

Baker's Hawk

as Mr. McGraw

The First Easter Rabbit

as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)

The McMasters

as McMasters

The Sound of Anger

as Walter Nichols

Pinocchio

as Geppetto

The Daydreamer

as Father Neptune (voice)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

as Sam the Snowman (voice)

Ensign Pulver

as Captain Morton

Summer Magic

as Osh Popham

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 Big Country

as Rufus Hannassey

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt