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Burl Ives (1909-1985) was an Oscar winning American actor and singer. 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. His IMDb page shows 58 acting credits from 1946 to 1988. This page will rank Burl Ives movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American and a handful of his movies that we could not find box office on, were not included in the rankings.
Burl Ives Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1958 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1958 | The Big Country (1958) AA Best Supp Actor Win |
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| 1955 | East of Eden (1955) | |
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| 1946 | Smoky (1946) |  |
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| 1963 | Summer Magic (1963) | |
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| 1948 | So Dear To My Heart (1948) |  |
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| 1959 | Our Man in Havana (1959) | |
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| 1948 | Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) | |
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| 1948 | Station West (1948) | |
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| 1959 | Day of the Outlaw (1959) |  |
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| 1962 | The Spiral Road (1962) | |
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| 1950 | Sierra (1950) |  |
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| 1958 | Desire Under The Elms (1958) | |
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| 1958 | Wind Across the Everglades (1958) | |
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| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | |
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| 1982 | White Dog (1982) | |
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| 1975 | Hugo The Hippo (1975) | |
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| 1956 | The Power And The Prize (1956) |  |
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| 1964 | The Brass Bottle (1964) | |
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| 1964 | Ensign Pulver (1964) | |
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| 1979 | Just You and Me, Kid (1979) |  |
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| 1966 | The Daydreamer (1966) | |
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| 1970 | The McMasters (1970) |  |
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| 1976 | Baker's Hawk (1976) | |
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| 1967 | Those Fantastic Flying Fools/ (1967) |  |
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| 1988 | Two Moon Junction (1988) | |
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| 1981 | Earthbound (1981) |  |
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| 1986 | Uphill All The Way (1986) | |
Burl Ives Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Sort Burl Ives movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) AA Best Picture Nom |
Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor |
25.10 | 451.0 | 637.1 | 2 | 85 | 06 / 00 | 99.2 | |
| 3 | The Big Country (1958) AA Best Supp Actor Win |
Gregory Peck & Jean Simmons |
10.60 | 191.2 | 191.2 | 11 | 89 | 02 / 01 | 98.8 | |
| 2 | East of Eden (1955) | James Dean & Jo Van Fleet |
14.30 | 296.2 | 337.7 | 16 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 98.7 | |
| 4 | Smoky (1946) | Fred MacMurray | 10.80 | 333.0 | 333.0 | 15 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.3 | |
| 5 | Summer Magic (1963) | Hayley Mills & Dorothy McGuire |
11.00 | 137.9 | 137.9 | 25 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 90.4 | |
| 6 | So Dear To My Heart (1948) | WaltLiveAction | 5.80 | 156.0 | 196.8 | 53 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 89.0 | |
| 6 | Our Man in Havana (1959) | Alec Guinness & Maureen O'Hara |
5.20 | 93.7 | 93.7 | 47 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 86.9 | |
| 8 | Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) | Charles Coburn | 5.50 | 148.9 | 148.9 | 61 | 57 | 01 / 00 | 86.1 | |
| 9 | Station West (1948) | Dick Powell & Raymond Burr |
3.60 | 97.5 | 121.6 | 97 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 82.4 | |
| 10 | Day of the Outlaw (1959) | Robert Ryan | 2.40 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 97 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 75.7 | |
| 11 | The Spiral Road (1962) | Rock Hudson | 6.60 | 94.5 | 94.5 | 39 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 71.0 | |
| 12 | Sierra (1950) | Audie Murphy & Tony Curtis |
2.40 | 54.0 | 54.0 | 128 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 68.9 | |
| 13 | Desire Under The Elms (1958) | Sophia Loren & Anthony Perkins |
2.90 | 51.3 | 51.3 | 75 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 63.6 | |
| 14 | Wind Across the Everglades (1958) | Christopher Plummer | 2.00 | 35.1 | 55.5 | 112 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 58.1 | |
| 15 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | Ricardo Montalban & Shelley Winters |
1.10 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 125 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 55.8 | |
| 16 | White Dog (1982) | Kristy McNichol & Christa Lang |
0.00 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 172 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 52.6 | |
| 17 | Hugo The Hippo (1975) | Robert Morley | 2.00 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 115 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 52.1 | |
| 18 | The Power And The Prize (1956) | Robert Taylor & Elisabeth Müller |
1.60 | 31.9 | 59.9 | 152 | 57 | 01 / 00 | 45.9 | |
| 19 | The Brass Bottle (1964) | Tony Randall | 1.50 | 17.2 | 17.2 | 122 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 45.2 | |
| 20 | Ensign Pulver (1964) | Robert Walker Jr. | 3.90 | 44.5 | 60.9 | 73 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 43.3 | |
| 21 | Just You and Me, Kid (1979) | George Burns | 2.60 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 95 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 36.7 | |
| 22 | The Daydreamer (1966) | Hayley Mills & Tallulah Bankhead |
0.40 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 142 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 34.3 | |
| 23 | The McMasters (1970) | David Carradine & Jack Palance |
1.10 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 143 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 27.0 | |
| 24 | Baker's Hawk (1976) | Clint Walker | 1.00 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 137 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 26.3 | |
| 23 | Those Fantastic Flying Fools/ (1967) | Terry-Thomas | 1.10 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 136 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 18.3 | |
| 24 | Two Moon Junction (1988) | Sherilyn Fenn & Richard Tyson |
1.50 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 170 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 14.1 | |
| 25 | Earthbound (1981) | Christopher Connelly | 0.20 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 165 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 7.6 | |
| 26 | Uphill All The Way (1986) | Roy Clark | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 223 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 2.9 |
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I saw 6, including top 3. 10 and favorite: cat on a hot tin roof. this is in my top 10 dramas all time. a great story of family dysfunction and alcoholism. greater than several other great alcoholism movies: days of wine and rose, come back little sheba, the lost weekend, a tree grows in Brooklyn ( a UMR top 1000), mommie dearest.
Ives was in brass bottle , a precedent to televisions “I Dream of Jeannie” . babara eden was in both with burl ives as the genie in the movie. Ives was in summer magic . a precedent to the magic of belle isle in Morgan freemans role.
Hey bob cox….thanks for stopping by. Hope work is getting if not easier at list not as time consuming. Thanks for the tally count and your rankings. Good mini-review of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Good shout out to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. James Dunn in that movie is amazing….a performance that has been forgotten with time…even with an Oscar attached to that performance. Interesting about I Dream of Jeannie and The Magic of Belle Isle…..I did not know that at all. Good stuff as always.
Did you know in 1962 2 actors who had won the best supporting actor award had top 10 hits on Billboard. Burl had the immortal Funny Way of Laughin’ and A Little Bitty Tear, 2 top 10’s at 53 years of age. Then we had the oldest person I think ever to have a top 10, 68 year old Walter Brennan with Old Rivers. I think I have both of Burl’s hits on 45 stashed in the closet, none of these records looked at in over 20 years.
Burl was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list; these are the actors on the current list he appeared with;
3 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
27 FRANK WELKER Hugo the Hippo (1975)
48 JOHN CARRADINE The McMasters (1970)
54 JACK NICHOLSON Ensign Pulver (1964)
61 JACK PALANCE The McMasters (1970)
73 BURT REYNOLDS Uphill All the Way (1986)
92 CHARLTON HESTON The Big Country (1958)
94 PAUL NEWMAN Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
155 ROBERT MORLEY Hugo the Hippo (1975)
180 DAVID CARRADINE The McMasters (1970)
205 PETER FALK Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
266 ALEC GUINNESS Our Man in Havana (1959)
302 GREGORY PECK The Big Country (1958)
309 ROBERT TAYLOR The Power and the Prize (1956)
339 SOPHIA LOREN Desire Under the Elms (1958)
374 ANTHONY PERKINS Desire Under the Elms (1958)
381 FERDY MAYNE Our Man in Havana (1959)
395 GEOFFREY KEEN The Spiral Road (1962)
408 GRAHAM STARK Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
461 DIANE BAKER Baker’s Hawk (1976)
474 TONY CURTIS Sierra (1950)
489 DICK MILLER White Dog (1982)
511 TERRY-THOMAS The Daydreamer (1966)
511 TERRY-THOMAS Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
512 KEYE LUKE Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
555 WALTER MATTHAU Ensign Pulver (1964)
595 SLIM PICKENS Smoky (1946)
619 JOHN LE MESURIER Our Man in Havana (1959)
629 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON THOSE FANTASTIC FLYING FOOLS (1967)
646 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
661 ANN DORAN The Brass Bottle (1964)
665 MAURICE DENHAM Our Man in Havana (1959)
665 MAURICE DENHAM Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
692 TONY RANDALL The Brass Bottle (1964)
699 RALPH RICHARDSON Our Man in Havana (1959)
714 MICHAEL J. POLLARD Summer Magic (1963)
717 ROBERT RYAN Day of the Outlaw (1959)
730 LOUISE FLETCHER Two Moon Junction (1988)
759 NEHEMIAH PERSOFF Day of the Outlaw (1959)
775 GENA ROWLANDS The Spiral Road (1962)
781 EDWARD ANDREWS THE BRASS BOTTLE (1964)
798 LOIS SMITH East of Eden (1955)
816 PAUL WINFIELD White Dog (1982)
841 MILLA JOVOVICH TWO MOON JUNCTION (1988)
858 GERT FROBE Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
877 LLOYD NOLAN Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
HM (932) LIONEL JEFFRIES THOSE FANTASTIC FLYING FOOLS (1967)
HM (976) BROOKE SHIELDS Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
Burl appeared with 19 other Oscar winners in his films.
ALEC GUINNESS Our Man in Havana (1959)
ANNE BAXTER Smoky (1946)
CHARLES COBURN Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
CHARLES COBURN The Power and the Prize (1956)
CHARLTON HESTON The Big Country (1958)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
DEAN JAGGER Sierra (1950)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
GEORGE BURNS Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
GREGORY PECK The Big Country (1958)
JACK NICHOLSON Ensign Pulver (1964)
JACK PALANCE The McMasters (1970)
JO VAN FLEET East of Eden (1955)
LOUISE FLETCHER Two Moon Junction (1988)
MARY ASTOR The Power and the Prize (1956)
PATTY DUKE The Daydreamer (1966)
PAUL NEWMAN Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
SHELLEY WINTERS Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
SOPHIA LOREN Desire Under the Elms (1958)
WALTER MATTHAU Ensign Pulver (1964)
Hey Dan.
1. Not sure how I missed your Burl Ives comment….but bob cox’s recent comment has allowed me to fix this problem.
2. Good lists as always….thank you for putting them together.
3. Great trivia about Burl and Walter Brennan and their Oscars and their music success…I knew all about Burl’s music career….no idea about Walter’s pipes being so impressive….thanks for sharing that info…love stuff like that.
4. Looking at the the first list…lots of stars….but few multiple co-stars….looks like Terry-Thomas and Maurice Denham are the only ones with more that one Burl movies….interesting!
5. Second list…19 seems on the low end…but his heyday movie career was actually pretty short…really only about a 7 or 8 year span.
Thanks again…sorry for the delay..but you are still the man!
Hello Bruce,
He is looking a little, specially in the film
Cat on a hot tin roof , like the actor patriarch in the série
« Succession », but in the meantime stereotypes are always here and now and for the futur.
Have a good day
Pierre
Hey Pierre…..thanks for sharing your thoughts on Cat On A Hot Tin Roof….good points and good comment.
A much smaller amount of movies than I would have guessed.
Hey Taylor….I agree his movie career quantity is not too impressive….luckily he was able to get some classic movies completed in that pretty short movie career. Good stuff.
Hello Bruce,
I was looking for you answer on Holly Hunter page and I read a answer on the Burl Ives page, and I am so sorry, I have to write I forget completely this comment ( the same thing for Holly Hunter when I made a little hello to Helakoski)
So the conclusion is very simple, I have to stop drinking when I am on the Ultimate Movie Ranking site.
I like very much the série Succession, but i think my comment is very Out of order and thank you for your very much for your very short but very nice.
Bye
Pierre