- Nacimiento
- Defunción14 de abril de 1995 · Anacortes, Washington, Estados Unidos (complicaciones de cáncer oral)
- Nombre de nacimientoBurl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
- Altura1.83 m
- Burl Ives nació el 14 de junio de 1909 en Illinois, EE.UU.. Fue un artista musical y actor, conocido por Horizontes de grandeza (1958), Un gato sobre el tejado caliente (1958) y Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). Estuvo casado con Dorothy Koster y Helen Payne Ehrlich. Murió el 14 de abril de 1995 en Washington, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesDorothy Koster(16 de abril de 1971 - 14 de abril de 1995) (su muerte)Helen Payne Ehrlich(6 de diciembre de 1945 - 17 de febrero de 1971) (divorciado, 1 niño)
- PadresCordelia WhiteLevi "Frank" Ives
- FamiliaresClarence Ives(Sibling)Audry Ives(Sibling)Lillburn Ives(Sibling)Artie Ives(Sibling)Norma Ives(Sibling)Argola Ives(Sibling)Samantha Vaughan(Grandchild)
- His singing voice
- His goatee
- His role as Sam the Snowman in Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Frequent benefits for Indian reservations, peace academies, Boy Scouts, environmental groups, arts foundations, children's medicine
- During the first season El show de Ren y Stimpy (1991) episode "Stimpy's Invention" featured a record, "Happy Happy Joy Joy," which contained a variety of spoken-word segments meant to parody some of Ives' albums from the 1960s. When Ives saw the episode, he contacted Ren and Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi and said that he would have been willing to do the voice over work for it.
- He was a 33rd Degree Mason.
- Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle, the narrator of the classic Disneyland attraction "American Sings" (1974-1988) in Tomorrowland.
- He strongly opposed the United States entering World War II until the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, after which he avidly campaigned for the US to declare war on Germany and Italy.
- I was fortunate to be born into a family of Masons. Indeed, my older sister Audrey was Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Illinois. My DeMolay experience came very naturally because of my father and brothers. Thus was my youth enhanced.
- [on the Spanish Civil War] To me, the Republican elected government stood for freedom and the people, democratic ideals and just the common decencies I'd learned from my father years before. I felt that the Spanish war was a moral fight and I was part of it. Every man would feel its effects.
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