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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.
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1959 | 50 | The Big Country (1958) | Supporting Actor | Win | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
| Date | Location | Team | Receives | Team | Receives | Team | Receives |
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Credits
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2024-11-08 | The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along | |
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1988-04-29 | Two Moon Junction | Sheriff Earl Hawkins |
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1986-01-01 | Uphill All the Way | Sheriff John Catledge |
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1982-07-07 | White Dog | Carruthers |
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1981-01-27 | Earthbound | Ned Anderson |
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1979-07-13 | Just You and Me, Kid | Max |
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1978-12-13 | The New Adventures of Heidi | Grandfather |
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1978-01-27 | The Bermuda Depths | Dr. Paulis |
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1976-12-12 | Baker's Hawk | Mr. McGraw |
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1975-12-12 | Gifts of an Eagle | |
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1973-01-01 | Tennessee Williams' South | |
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1970-12-16 | The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever | T.M. Trask |
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1970-04-23 | The McMasters | McMasters |
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1969-03-11 | The Whole World Is Watching | Walter Nichols |
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1968-12-10 | The Sound of Anger | Walter Nichols |
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1968-12-08 | Pinocchio | Geppetto |
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1967-07-13 | Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon | Phineas T. Barnum |
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1966-06-01 | The Daydreamer | Father Neptune (voice) |
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1964-12-06 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Sam the Snowman (voice) |
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1964-07-31 | Ensign Pulver | Captain Morton |
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1964-05-20 | The Brass Bottle | Fakrash |
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1963-07-07 | Summer Magic | Osh Popham |
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1963-01-01 | I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | |
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1962-08-03 | The Spiral Road | Dr. Brits Jansen |
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1960-11-10 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan |
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1960-01-27 | Our Man in Havana | Dr. Hasselbacher |
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1959-07-01 | Day of the Outlaw | Jack Bruhn |
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1958-09-30 | The Big Country | Rufus Hannassey |
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1958-09-11 | Wind Across the Everglades | Cottonmouth |
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1958-08-29 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt |
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1958-03-12 | Desire Under the Elms | Éphraïm Cabot |
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1956-09-26 | The Power and the Prize | George Salt |
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1955-04-10 | East of Eden | Sam the Sheriff |
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1950-05-26 | Sierra | Lonesome |
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1948-11-29 | So Dear to My Heart | Uncle Hiram Douglas |
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1948-09-01 | Station West | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
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1948-06-03 | Green Grass of Wyoming | Gus |
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1946-06-26 | Smoky | Willie |