Cast: Burl Ives
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Burl Ives. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 37
The Big Country
1958 · Movie · 159 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Charlton Heston · Burl Ives
Synopsis In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of the precious liquid. It really belongs to Julie Maragon, and...
8.0
12K votes
8.0
12K votes
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Paul Newman · Burl Ives · Jack Carson
Synopsis Based on the play by Tennessee Williams: A party is planned for the 65th birthday of family patriarch 'Big Daddy', but not everyone is in a festive mood. Big Daddy's son Brick, a one-time star athlete, has a drinking problem...
8.0
21K votes
8.0
21K votes
East of Eden
1955 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast James Dean · Raymond Massey · Julie Harris · Richard Davalos
Synopsis In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Andy Griffith · Patricia Neal · Lee Remick · Anthony Franciosa
Synopsis A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Captains and the Kings (TV Miniseries)
1976 · Series · 540 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Heyes · Allen Reisner
Cast Richard Jordan · Perry King · Patty Duke · Henry Fonda
Synopsis Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant. Joseph Armagh was a poor Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the mid-19th century, and proceeded, through struggle, heartache and hard work, to become one of the richest and most powerful...
7.1
103 votes
7.1
103 votes
Day of the Outlaw
1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction André De Toth
Cast Robert Ryan · Burl Ives · Tina Louise · Nehemiah Persoff
Synopsis 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 leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a...
7.0
740 votes
7.0
740 votes
Night Gallery (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney
Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price
Synopsis Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such...
6.9
166 votes
6.9
166 votes
Our Man in Havana
1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Alec Guinness · Burl Ives · Maureen O'Hara · Ernie Kovacs
Synopsis Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Burl Ives · Frank Overton
Synopsis n DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, Anna poses tough competition to Ephraim’s bitter sons from his previous marriages, who believe they, not their new stepmother, should inherit all his land. Things heat up when Anna and Ephraim’s son, Eben spend a...
6.6
390 votes
6.6
390 votes
White Dog
1982 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Kristy McNichol · Paul Winfield · Burl Ives · Jameson Parker
Synopsis Julie Sawyer hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home....
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray · Budd Schulberg
Cast Burl Ives · Christopher Plummer · Chana Eden · Gypsy Rose Lee
Synopsis In early 1900s Florida, an agent (Christopher Plummer) faces off with the leader of one band of bird-hunters (Burl Ives) in this fictionalized account of the the Audubon Society battle to end the killing of Florida's plume birds, whose feathers...
6.3
335 votes
6.3
335 votes
Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Glen A. Larson · Bruce Bilson · Jeffrey Hayden · Alexander Singer
Cast Ben Murphy · Pete Duel · Dennis Fimple · Ford Rainey
Synopsis TV Series (1971-1973). Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks", since "in all the trains and banks they robbed, they...
6.1
33 votes
6.1
33 votes
So Dear to My Heart
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Harold D. Schuster · Hamilton Luske
Cast Burl Ives · Beulah Bondi · Bobby Driscoll · Luana Patten
Synopsis Set in early 20th century Indiana (in 1903), So Dear to My Heart tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny (named for the famed race horse, Dan Patch, who is...
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Series · 282 min. · United States
Direction Charles Jarrott
Cast Farrah Fawcett · David Ackroyd · Stéphane Audran · Amadeus August
Synopsis The true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.
5.7
40 votes
5.7
40 votes
Smoky
1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Fred MacMurray · Anne Baxter · Bruce Cabot · Esther Dale
Synopsis Clint Barkley (MacMurray) first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards (Anne Baxter). He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about...
5.7
23 votes
5.7
23 votes
The Spiral Road
1962 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Robert Mulligan
Cast Rock Hudson · Gena Rowlands · Burl Ives · Geoffrey Keen
5.5
208 votes
5.5
208 votes
Sierra
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Wanda Hendrix · Audie Murphy · Burl Ives · Dean Jagger
Synopsis Ring Hassard and father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie because Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. But things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that...
5.3
68 votes
5.3
68 votes
Ensign Pulver
1964 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Joshua Logan
Cast Robert Walker Jr. · Burl Ives · Walter Matthau · Tommy Sands
Synopsis In this sequel to "Mister Roberts," the crew of the U.S.S. Reluctant find themselves docked beside an island which boasts a barrack full of attractive nurses. 1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton...
5.3
48 votes
5.3
48 votes
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Peggy Cummins · Charles Coburn · Robert Arthur · Lloyd Nolan
Synopsis "Thunderhead," a roving, big white stallion, causes problems for the Wyoming ranchers when he leads their blue-blooded racing mares off to join his wild horse herd in the mountains. Escaping gunfire, he runs off one night with a young rancher;s...
5.0
72 votes
5.0
72 votes
The McMasters
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alf Kjellin
Cast Burl Ives · Brock Peters · David Carradine · Nancy Kwan
Synopsis When Benjie, a black man who fought in the Civil War, returns to the southern town of Ironside, his return is not exactly a welcome one.
4.7
28 votes
4.7
28 votes