Cast: Burl Ives

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Burl Ives. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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