Burl Ives
Born in Hunt City, Illinois, USA — Jun 14 1909• Died Apr 14 1995
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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 popula…
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jonathan J. Dwire
Daniel Boone
Prater Beaseley
The Name of the Game
Arthur Jellicoe
Night Gallery
Old Man Doubleday
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Oscars
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
Alias Smith and Jones
Roots
Senator Arthur J. Justin
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Captains and the Kings
Old Syrup
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
F.W. Woolworth
The Big Country
Rufus Hannassey
East of Eden
Sam the Sheriff
General Electric Theater
King David
Two Moon Junction
Sheriff Earl Hawkins
The Bobby Darin Show
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
O.K. Crackerby
White Dog
Carruthers
The Daydreamer
Father Neptune (voice)
Station West
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
Walter Nicholls
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Sam the Snowman (voice)
The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
So Dear to My Heart
Uncle Hiram Douglas
The Ewok Adventure
Narrator (voice)
The McMasters
McMasters
Ensign Pulver
Captain Morton
Day of the Outlaw
Jack Bruhn
Smoky
Willie
Summer Magic
Osh Popham
The Spiral Road
Dr. Brits Jansen
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Phineas T. Barnum
Wind Across the Everglades
Cottonmouth
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Big Daddy (archive footage)
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
T.M. Trask
DTV: Golden Oldies
Self
The Whole World Is Watching
Walter Nichols
The Power and the Prize
George Salt
Just You and Me, Kid
Max
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Desire Under the Elms
Éphraïm Cabot
Our Man in Havana
Dr. Hasselbacher
Baker's Hawk
Mr. McGraw
The Bermuda Depths
Dr. Paulis
My Music: A Classic Christmas
Self (archive footage)
The New Adventures of Heidi
Grandfather
Mediterranean Holiday
Narrator (US Version) (voice)
Sierra
Lonesome
Tennessee Williams' South
The Brass Bottle
Fakrash
Pinocchio
Geppetto
Thomas Hart Benton
Himself
The Sound of Anger
Walter Nichols
Earthbound
Ned Anderson
Green Grass of Wyoming
Gus
Fun in the Big Country
Self
The First Easter Rabbit
Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Uphill All the Way
Sheriff John Catledge
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller
Tall Tales
Self
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Narrator (voice)
A Down Home Country Christmas
Self
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself
Gifts of an Eagle