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Jun 14, 1909 Jasper County, Illinois, United States Died on 14 Apr 1995 (aged 85)
American actor, writer and folk music singer
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About Burl Ives
- 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. He was a mystery guest on What's My Line? twice: once on August 7, 1955, when he was identified by Bennett Cerf, and once on February 1, 1959, when he was identified by Martin Gabel. 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.
