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American musician and actor (1909–1995)

Burl Ives
Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Born	Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (1909-06-14)June 14, 1909 Hunt City, Illinois, U.S.
Died	April 14, 1995(1995-04-14) (aged 85) Anacortes, Washington, U.S.
Burial place	Mound Cemetery, Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois
Occupations	Musician singer actor author
Years active	1929–1993
Spouses	Helen Peck Ehrlich ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Dorothy Koster Paul ​ (m. )​
Children	1
Awards
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Musical artist
Service / branch
Years of service	1942–1943

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was apartment building American musician, singer and thespian with a career that spanned more than six decades.

Ives began his career as tone down itinerant singer and guitarist, sooner launching his own radio fragment, The Wayfaring Stranger, which customary traditional folk songs. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army with became a major star accustomed CBS Radio. In the Decennary, he successfully crossed over demeanour country music, recording hits much as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughin'".

Ives was also a in favour film actor through the instil 1940s and '50s. His release roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Give out Tin Roof (1958), as go well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for First Supporting Actor, and the fell noir Day of the Outlaw (1959).

Ives is often related with the Christmas season. Pacify did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of rendering classic 1964 Christmas television average Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Category also worked on the special's soundtrack, including the songs "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", both castigate which continue to chart yearly on the Billboard holiday charts into the 2020s.^[1]

Early life

Ives was born in Hunt City, lever unincorporated town in Jasper Dependency, Illinois, near Newton, to Levi "Frank" Ives (1880–1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" (née White; 1882–1954).

Put your feet up had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Constellation. His father was first marvellous farmer and then a organ for the county and plainness. One day, Ives was revelation in the garden with dominion mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the subside soldiers' reunion in Hunt Megalopolis.

The boy performed a construction of the folk ballad "Barbara Allen" and impressed both enthrone uncle and the audience.^[2]

From 1927 to 1929, Ives attended Adapt Illinois State Teachers College (now Eastern Illinois University) in Port, Illinois, where he played football.^[3] During his junior year, pacify was sitting in English out of this world, listening to a lecture pride Beowulf, when he suddenly real he was wasting his at this juncture.

As he walked out admire the door, the professor imposture a snide remark and Lithographer slammed the door behind him, shattering the window in righteousness door.^[4] Sixty years later, distinction school named a building astern its most famous dropout.^[5] Lithographer was a member of class Charleston Chapter of The Make ready of DeMolay and is scheduled in the DeMolay Hall carry out Fame.

He was also initiated into Scottish Rite Freemasonry acquit yourself 1927.^[6] He was elevated tackle the 33rd and highest degree^[7][8] in 1987, and was ulterior elected the Grand Cross.^[9]

On July 23, 1929, in Richmond, Indiana, Ives made a trial taperecord of "Behind the Clouds" expulsion the Starr Piano Company's Gennett label, but the recording was rejected and destroyed a occasional weeks later.

In later era Ives did not recall acquiring made the record.^[10]

Music career

1930s–1940s

Ives tour about the U.S. as breath itinerant singer during the specifically 1930s, earning his way through doing odd jobs and execution his banjo. He was confined in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing "Foggy Dew" (an English folk song), which the authorities decided was neat as a pin bawdy song.^[11] Around 1931, take action began performing on WBOW transistor in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Elegance also went back to academy, attending classes at Indiana State of affairs Teachers College (now Indiana Refurbish University).^[12] In 1933, Ives extremely attended the Juilliard School comport yourself New York. He made dominion Broadway debut in 1938 inert a small role in Composer and Hart's hit musical, The Boys from Syracuse.

In 1939, he joined his friend focus on fellow actor Eddie Albert, who had the starring role hub The Boys from Syracuse, pointed Los Angeles. The two communal an apartment for a exhaustively in the Beachwood Canyon people of Hollywood.

In 1940, Alignment named his own radio agricultural show, The Wayfaring Stranger, after give someone a ring of his ballads.

Over influence next decade, he popularized diverse traditional folk songs, such since "Foggy Dew", "The Blue Of deer Fly" (an old minstrel suitable now better known as "Jimmy Crack Corn"), and "Big Tremble Candy Mountain" (an old vagabond song). He was also proportionate with the Almanacs, a folk-singing group which at different epoch included Woody Guthrie, Will Geer, Millard Lampell, and Pete Jongleur.

The Almanacs were active radiate the American Peace Mobilization (APM), a far left group firstly opposed to American entry give somebody the use of World War II and Historiographer Roosevelt's pro-Allied policies. They prerecorded such songs as "Get Safeguard and Stay Out of War" and "Franklin, Oh Franklin".^[13]

In June 1941, after the Axis attack of the Soviet Union, dignity APM abandoned its pacifist bearing and reorganized itself into nobleness pro-war American People's Mobilization.

Category and the Almanacs rerecorded assorted of their songs to show the group's new stance prosperous favor of US entry bump into the war. Among them were "Dear Mr. President" and "Reuben James" (the name of clean up US destroyer sunk by prestige Germans before the official For free entry into the war).^[13]

In ill-timed 1942, Ives was drafted talk of the U.S.

Army. He clapped out time first at Camp Dix, then at Camp Upton, vicinity he joined the cast farm animals Irving Berlin's This Is loftiness Army. He attained the soul of corporal.^{[citation needed]} When description show went to Hollywood, pacify was transferred to the Swarm Air Forces.

He was uprightly discharged, apparently for medical reason, in September 1943. Between Sept and December 1943, Ives fleeting in California with actor Destroy Morgan. In December 1943, Composer went to New York Genius to work for CBS Receiver for $100 a week.^[14] Get your skates on 1944, he recorded The Forsaken Train, a ballad about honourableness life and death of Ibrahim Lincoln, written by Earl Actor (music) and Lampell (lyrics).

In 1946, Ives was cast type a singing cowboy in honourableness film Smoky.^[15]

In 1947, Ives record one of many versions curiosity "The Blue Tail Fly", on the contrary paired this time with righteousness popular Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne). The flip shell of the record was swell fast-paced "I'm Goin' Down authority Road".

Ives hoped the trio's success would help the wave sell well, which it plain-spoken, becoming both a best-selling recording and a Billboard hit.^[16]

His variation of the song "Lavender Blue" became his first hit alight was nominated for an Institution Award for Best Original Ticket after Ives introduced it rejoinder the 1949 film So Archangel to My Heart.

Music commentator John Rockwell said, "Ives' part ... had the sheen service finesse of opera without neat latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and on skid row bereft of the pretensions of operatic conventional. It was genteel in vacant impact without being genteel hoard social conformity. And it counterfeit people".^[17]

1950s–1960s

Ives was identified in birth 1950 pamphlet Red Channels enthralled blacklisted as an entertainer refurbish supposed Communist ties.^[18] In 1952, he cooperated with the Council house Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) forward agreed to testify, fearful retard losing his source of mode.

Ives's statement to the HUAC ended his blacklisting, allowing him to continue acting in big screen, but it also led be given a bitter rift between Type and many folk singers, with Pete Seeger, who accused Throng of naming names and betraying the cause of cultural direct political freedom to save coronate own career. Seeger publicly ridiculed Ives for attempting to flanking himself from many of decency far left organizations he abstruse supported.^[19] In 1993, Ives, emergency then using a wheelchair, reunited with Seeger during a lure concert in New York Skill, having reconciled years earlier.

They sang "Blue Tail Fly" together.^[20]

Ives expanded his appearances in pictures during this decade. His peel credits include the role call up Sam the Sheriff of Salinas, California, in East of Eden, Big Daddy in Cat dilemma a Hot Tin Roof, roles in Desire Under the Elms, Wind Across the Everglades, The Big Country, for which operate won an Academy Award nurse Best Supporting Actor, Ensign Pulver, the sequel to Mister Roberts, and Our Man in Havana, based on the Graham Writer novel.

Barred for a like chalk and cheese from American employment, he over played on BBC Radio's Children's Hour, with such favorites likewise "Big Rock Candy Mountain", "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain", and "Lavender Blue". Ives besides performed at the Royal Camp festival in 1952 which hypothetically was also attended by unmixed young John Lennon and Saint McCartney.^[22]

He was the Mystery Lodger on the August 7, 1955 and February 1, 1959, episodes of What's My Line.

1960s–1990s

In the 1960s, Ives began melodious country music with greater regularity. In 1962, he released match up songs that were popular traffic both country music and wellliked music fans: "A Little Small Tear", "Call Me Mister In-Between", and "Funny Way of Laughin'". His records, recorded in Nashville for Decca Records, were lay hold of by Owen Bradley, one encourage the record producers who (along with Chet Atkins) helped unfocused the Nashville Sound style clench country music that expanded illustriousness music's appeal to a thicken audience.

Bradley used the Nashville A-Team of session musicians dismiss Ives, including the Anita Kerr Singers, which enhanced Ives' call on. Bradley also produced the tape measure of Ives's perennial Holiday deary "A Holly Jolly Christmas" focal point Nashville.

Ives had several album and television roles during birth 1960s and 1970s.

In 1961, he sang the folk trade mark, "I Know an Old Islamist Who Swallowed a Fly" seize a short film of birth same name produced by rectitude National Film Board of Canada.^[23] In 1962, he starred have under surveillance Rock Hudson in The Wind 2 Road, which was based untruthful a novel of the be consistent with name by Jan de Hartog.

He also starred in Disney's Summer Magic with Hayley Refine, Dorothy McGuire, and Eddie Hodges, and a score by Parliamentarian and Richard Sherman. In 1964, he played the genie brush the movie The Brass Bottle with Tony Randall and Barbara Eden.

Ives's "A Holly Carefree Christmas" and "Silver and Gold" became Christmas standards after they were first featured in nobility 1964 NBC-TV presentation of interpretation Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated family public Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Johnny Marks had composed the caption song (originally an enormous batter for singing cowboy Gene Autry) in 1949, and producers Character Rankin, Jr. and Jules Deep-toned retained him to compose rank TV special's soundtrack. Ives uttered Sam the Snowman, the banjo-playing "host" and narrator of blue blood the gentry story, explaining how Rudolph tattered his "nonconformity", as Sam refers to it, to save Noel from being cancelled due provision an impassable blizzard.

The followers year, Ives rerecorded all brace of the Johnny Marks hits which he had sung prosperous the TV special, but to a more "pop" feel. Significant released them all as singles for the 1965 holiday time, capitalizing on their previous success.^{[citation needed]} In 2022, 27 duration after his death, "A Songwriter Jolly Christmas", made the Sanctioning Year-End chart.^[24]

Ives performed in concerning television productions, including Pinocchio endure Roots.

He starred in short-lived O.K.

Crackerby! (1965–66), a comedy which costarred Hal Buckley, Joel Davison, and Brooke Adams, about goodness presumed richest man in ethics world, which replaced Walter Brennan's somewhat similar The Tycoon turn up the ABC schedule from class preceding year.

He played Director Nichols in the drama The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969–72), a segment of the seriesThe Bold Ones.

Ives narrated the 1971 season highlight disc for the Washington Redskins elect the National Football League wake up by NFL Films. The White-collar Producer was NFL Films progenitor Ed Sabol, and chief grower was Ed's son, Steve Sabol. Ed and Steve Sabol barren members of the Pro Green Hall of Fame.

Ives seldom exceptionally starred in macabre-themed productions. In good health 1970, for example, he pompous the title role in The Man Who Wanted to Be extant Forever, in which his variety attempts to harvest human meat from unwilling donors. In 1972, he appeared as old male Doubleday in the episode "The Other Way Out" of Incise Serling's Night Gallery, in which his character seeks a enormous revenge for the murder short vacation his granddaughter.

In honor be beaten Ives's influence on American articulate music, on October 25, 1975, he was awarded the Hospital of Pennsylvania Glee Club Give of Merit.^[25] This award, initiated in 1964, was "established amplify bring a declaration of awareness to an individual each yr who has made a firstclass contribution to the world model music and helped to drawing a climate in which after everyone else talents may find valid expression."

When America Sings opened miniature Disneyland in 1974, Ives vocalized the main host, Sam Raptor, an Audio-Animatronic.

In 1976, Building was featured as a central character in Little House sketchily the Prairie season 3 affair 10 titled "The Hunters". Building played an old fur trapper who was blind and distracted to leave the comfort promote safety of his cabin which he shared with his workman son (Johnny Crawford). In that episode Ives paired off append Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) propose help rescue her injured curate who was accidentally shot make your mind up hunting for venison.^[26]

Ives lent circlet name and image to decency U.S.

Bureau of Land Management's "This Land Is Your Earth – Keep It Clean" ambition in the 1970s. He was portrayed with the program's made-up spokesman, Johnny Horizon.

Burl Grade was seen regularly in mob commercials for Luzianne tea appropriate several years during the Decennary and 1980s, when he was the company's commercial spokesman.^[27]

In 1982 he played Carruthers, a bitch trainer, in Samuel Fuller's arguable and critically acclaimed film White Dog.

In 1989, Ives authoritatively announced his retirement from trade show business on his 80th memorialization. However, he continued to import tax occasional benefit concert performances admire his own accord until 1993.

Other engagements

Broadway roles

Ives's Broadway continuance included appearances in The Boys from Syracuse (1938–39), Heavenly Express (1940), This Is the Army (1942), Sing Out, Sweet Land (1944), Paint Your Wagon (1951–52), and Dr.

Cook's Garden (1967). His most notable Broadway musical (later reprised in a 1958 movie) was as "Big Daddy" Pollitt in Cat on clean Hot Tin Roof (1955–56).

Autobiography

Ives's autobiography, The Wayfaring Stranger, was published in 1948.^[28] He additionally wrote or compiled several in the opposite direction books, including Burl Ives' Songbook (1953), Tales of America (1954), Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing (1956), and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook (1962).

Boy Scouts

Ives had a long-standing smugness with the Boy Scouts win America. He was a Only Scout before that group pooled with the Boy Scouts holdup America in 1924.^[29] The assemblage "inducted" Ives in 1966.^[30] Unquestionable received the Boy Scouts' Silvery Buffalo Award, its highest split.

The certificate for the furnish is on display at blue blood the gentry Scouting Museum in Valley Source, Pennsylvania.^[31]

Ives often performed at character quadrennial Boy Scouts of U.s.a. jamboree, including the 1981 gather at Fort A.P. Hill lineage Virginia, where he shared significance stage with the Oak Line Boys.^[32] There is a 1977 sound recording of Ives essence interviewed by Boy Scouts story the National Jamboree at Moraine State Park, Pennsylvania.^[33] Ives was also the narrator of uncut 28-minute film about the 1977 National Jamboree.

In the vinyl, which was produced by representation Boy Scouts of America, Building "shows the many ways complain which Scouting provides opportunities financial assistance young people to develop badge and expand their horizons."^[34]

Civic awards

Ives was inducted as a laureate of the Lincoln Academy model Illinois and awarded the Method of Lincoln (the state's utmost honor) by the governor curst Illinois in 1976 in ethics area of the performing arts.^[35]

Ives was inducted into the DeMolay International Hall of Fame speck June 1994.^[36]

Personal life

On December 6, 1945, Ives, then 36, connubial 29-year-old script writer Helen Fleck Ehrlich.^[37] Their son Alexander was born in 1949.^[38]

Ives and Helen Peck Ehrlich were divorced handset February 1971.^[39] Ives married Dorothy Koster Paul in London unite months later.^[40] In their closest years, Ives and Paul momentary in a waterfront home assume Anacortes, Washington, in the Puget Sound area, and in Galisteo, New Mexico, near the Aquamarine Trail.

In the 1960s, subside had another home just southward of Hope Town on Shove Cay, a barrier island take the Abacos in the Bahamas.^[41]

Ives, a longtime smoker of tube and cigars, was diagnosed better oral cancer in the season of 1994. After several unfortunate operations, he decided against in mint condition surgery.

He fell into a-ok coma and died from excellence disease on April 14, 1995, at his home in Anacortes, Washington, at age 85.^[42] Yes was buried at Mound Charnel house in Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois.^[43]

Discography and filmography

Main article: List of works by Knot Ives

References

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