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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs.
Burl Ives. Actor: The Big Country. Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives.
Apr 15, 1995 · Burl Ives, the beloved balladeer who sang so convincingly of being a wayfaring stranger that he instead became a longtime friend, died Friday.
Burl Ives (1909–1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades. He began as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually becoming a major star of CBS Radio. Ives was a film actor in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the 1960s had hits in country music. His voice-over work in Christmas specials ...
Burl Ives. Actor: The Big Country. Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4.
Apr 15, 1995 · Burl Ives, whose sweet, strong, mournful way with folk ballads made him an international singing star in the 1940's and whose earthy acting won him an Academy Award in the 1950's, died yesterday...
Apr 14, 1995 · 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.
In the early 1940’s writer McKinley Cantor introduced Burl Ives to the great author Carl Sandburg. "It’s a satisfaction," McKinley said, "to bring together the most noted living ballad singer born in the 19 th century, yourself, and the mightiest ballad singer born in the 20 th century, Burl Ives.
Apr 14, 2012 · Burl Ives, born June 14, 1909, is best known today for his part as the snowman-narrator in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but he also enjoyed a decades-long career as a folk singer, actor and...
Apr 24, 1995 · Burl Ives, perhaps best known for his folk recordings but immortalized as Big Daddy in the stage and film versions of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” died April 14 after slipping...
