Job Actor, voice over actor, folk singer, writer, author
Years active 1935-93
Top Roles Sam the Sheriff, Big Daddy Pollitt, Ephriam Cabot, Dr. Hasselbacher, Captain
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Film Adaptation, Western, Family, Romance
Top TopicsBook-Based, Disney, Romance (Drama)
Top Collaborators (Director), , (Producer),
Shares birthday with Dorothy McGuire, Cliff Edwards, Gene Barry  see more..

Burl Ives Overview:

Legendary actor, Burl Ives, was born Burle Icle Ivanhoe Ives on Jun 14, 1909 in Hunt City, IL. Ives died at the age of 85 on Apr 14, 1995 in Anacortes, WA and was laid to rest in Mound Cemetery in Hunt City, Jasper County, IL.

MINI BIO:

Genial, jovial American folk singer with tufty dark hair and goatee beard. He won a reputation as a musical storyteller, then made a few appearances in outdoor adventure tales in the 1940s before unexpectedly becoming a dramatic heavyweight, in both senses, in the following decade. Singing remained his first love, but he continued to pop up occasionally in films, mostly as elderly characters as cantankerous as his early portraits had been good-humored. Oscar (best supporting actor) for The Big Country. Suffered a degenerative bone disease in later years. Died from mouth cancer.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Burl Ives was nominated for one Academy Award, winning for Best Supporting Actor for The Big Country (as Rufus Hannassey) in 1958.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1958Best Supporting ActorThe Big Country (1958)Rufus HannasseyWon
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Burl Ives Quotes:

Osh Popham: Mr. Hamilton wants a favor in return.
Margaret Carey: A favor? From us?
Osh Popham: Yes, he wants you to find a suitable place for his dear mother's picture.
Nancy Carey: Of course! Portrait of a lady! Where is it, Osh?
Osh Popham: Well, he hid it. He hid it away someplace safe. He wrote it down real clear, but it's just gone right out of my head.
Nancy Carey: Well, if you'll bring the letter, we'll follow the instructions to the last detail. She'll have a place of honor!
Osh Popham: Well, that's the idea. He wrote something about a simple little vase with flowers on her birthday.
Nancy Carey: When is it?
Osh Popham: Well, it seemed to me it was around the fall of the year. On Halloween.
Margaret Carey: Halloween!
Osh Popham: People are born on Halloween.


Osh Popham: That's my daughter, Lallie Joy. She'd be more like me, only her ma won't let her.
Peter Carey: [climbing a tree] Look at me, Mother, look at me! Whee!
Osh Popham: That must be the rickety baby.
Nancy Carey: Oh, Mr. Popham, about that letter. I wrote it, and - oh, I don't know how to begin.
Osh Popham: Well, Nancy, the way I figure it is this world's the only one we got till we move on to the next one, and there ain't nothin' wrong with tellin' somethin' that's a might off from the truth to make it more interestin'.


Mariah Popham: Mr. Popham! What are you doin' with them women? It's the Sabbath!
Osh Popham: [looking at pictures of scantily-clad women] I'm looking for a work of art to take over to the Careys. Lotta wall space there. Hand me that apron.
Mariah Popham: You can't take any of that junk!
Osh Popham: [dusting off one picture] She had a kind face. Pity she kept liquor on her.
Mariah Popham: [dusting off another picture] There's only one that's fit to hang. She wasn't much to look at, but she was a good woman. Spent her life on the opposin' side. If she hadn't went down with the wreck off Nantucket Light, the demon rum would've been chased off the New England coast. A real martyr. Insisted on goin' down the ship. Everyone else was saved, crew and captain.
Osh Popham: That's a mighty inspirin' story. Mariah, relax and enjoy yourself at the Careys today. This is not time the time to be upsettin' 'em with cold hard facts.
Mariah Popham: I'm warnin' you, Mr. Popham, one day the town constable will come in here and catch you at your sins, and you'll spend the rest of your life in the state prison!
Osh Popham: Mariah, aren't you forgettin' the town constable happens to be named Ossium Popham?


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Burl Ives Facts
Was initiated into DeMolay at the George N. Todd Chapter in Charleston Illinois, in 1927.

Frequent benefits for Indian reservations, peace academies, Boy Scouts, environmental groups, arts foundations, children's medicine

He was a 33rd Degree Mason.

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