Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Gavin MacLeod and Marion Ross host a Christmas celebration that features classic performances of popular holiday standards and traditional carols perf...
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
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...
Thomas Hart Benton
1989
as Himself
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people ...
Two Moon Junction
1988
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...
Uphill All the Way
1986
as Sheriff John Catledge
Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.
The Ewok Adventure
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
DTV: Golden Oldies
1984
as Self
Compilation of DTV music videos from on The Disney Channel, combining tunes from the 1940s through the 1960s with footage of Disney animation.
White Dog
1982
as Carruthers
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
Earthbound
1981
as Ned Anderson
A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
Just You and Me, Kid
1979
as Max
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.
The New Adventures of Heidi
1978
as Grandfather
The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright ligh...
The Bermuda Depths
1978
as Dr. Paulis
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...
Baker's Hawk
1976
as Mr. McGraw
When a young boy nurses an injured hawk back to health, he gains newfound courage and confidence on his own.
The First Easter Rabbit
1976
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.
Hugo the Hippo
1975
as Narrator - Vocalist (voice)
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 ...
Gifts of an Eagle
1975
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...
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a ...
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1970
as T.M. Trask
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
The McMasters
1970
as McMasters
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 ...
The Whole World Is Watching
1969
as Walter Nichols
In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a st...
The Sound of Anger
1968
as Walter Nichols
Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
Pinocchio
1968
as Geppetto
Pinocchio is a musical version of the story that aired in the United States on NBC, with pop star Peter Noone playing the puppet.
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
as Narrator (voice)
Quasi-documentay on Bonnie and Clyde... Larry Buchanan style!
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
as Phineas T. Barnum
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...
The Daydreamer
1966
as Father Neptune (voice)
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, ...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
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...
Ensign Pulver
1964
as Captain Morton
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 ...
The Brass Bottle
1964
as Fakrash
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Summer Magic
1963
as Osh Popham
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...
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
1963
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...
Mediterranean Holiday
1962
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.
The Spiral Road
1962
as Dr. Brits Jansen
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and o...
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
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 ...
Our Man in Havana
1960
as Dr. Hasselbacher
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...
Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Jack Bruhn
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious lead...
The Big Country
1958
as Rufus Hannassey
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...
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
as Cottonmouth
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...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
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...
Desire Under the Elms
1958
as Éphraïm Cabot
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 ...
Fun in the Big Country
1958
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
The Power and the Prize
1956
as George Salt
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
East of Eden
1955
as Sam the Sheriff
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath...
Sierra
1950
as Lonesome
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 ...
So Dear to My Heart
1948
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
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...
Station West
1948
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging t...
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Gus
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
Smoky
1946
as Willie
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch...
Tall Tales
1940
as Self
The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White, Bur...