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 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. Burl Ives(1909년생, Hunt City, Illinois, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 에덴의 동쪽, 빅 컨츄리, 뜨거운 양철 지붕 위의 고양이가 있으며, 그 외에도 조니 카슨의 투나잇 쇼, The Merv Griffin Show, What's My Line?, 초원의 집, Wogan, Night Gallery, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, Daniel Boone, The Name of the Game, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, The Ed Sullivan Show, 아카데미상 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2019년 My Music: A Classic Christmas에 출연했다. 1994년 Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage에서 Big Daddy (archive footage) 역을 맡았다. 1989년 Thomas Hart Benton에 출연했다.