Burl Ives

Burl Ives was born on Jun 14, 1909 in USA. Burl Ives's big-screen debut came with Smoky directed by Louis King in 1946, strarring Willie. Burl Ives is known for Fantastic Mr. Fox directed by Wes Anderson, George Clooney stars as Mr. Fox and Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox. Burl Ives has got 4 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Burl Ives achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new movie Burl Ives plays is Fantastic Mr. Fox which will be released on Nov 25, 2009.

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. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a football coach when he enrolled at Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College in 1927. He dropped out in 1930 and wandered, hitching rides, doing odd jobs, street singing.Summer stock in the late 1930s led to a job with CBS radio in 1940; through his "Wayfaring Stranger" he popularized many of the folk songs he had collected in his travels. By the 1960s, he had hits on both popular and country charts. He recorded over 30 albums for Decca and another dozen for Columbia. In 1964 he was singer-narrator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), an often-repeated Christmas television special. His Broadway debut was in 1938, though he is best remembered for creating the role of Big Daddy in the 1950s La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (1958) when it ran on Broadway through the early 1950s.His four-decade, 30+ movie career began with Ives playing a singing cowboy in Smoky (1946) and reached its peak with (again) his role as Big Daddy role in the movie version of La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (1958) and winning an Oscar for best supporting actor in Les grands espaces (1958), both in 1958. Ives officially retired from show business on his 80th birthday in 1989 and settled in Anacortes, Washington, although he continued to do frequent benefit performances at his own request. Burl Ives died in 1995.