AKA Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives

Born: 14-Jun-1909
Birthplace: Hunt City, IL
Died: 14-Apr-1995
Location of death: Anacortes, WA
Cause of death: Cancer - Throat
Remains: Buried, Mound Cemetery, Jasper County, IL

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Wife: Helen Peck Ehrich (div., one adopted son)
Wife: Dorothy Koster Paul (m. 1971, three stepchildren)

    Order of DeMolay Charleston, IL 1927
    Freemasonry
    Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity
    Emmy
    Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 1959 for The Big Country
    Golden Globe 1959 for The Big Country
    Silver Buffalo

    TELEVISION
    O.K. Crackerby! O.K. Crackerby (1965-66)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Two Moon Junction (22-Apr-1988)
    Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (16-Nov-1987)
    The Ewok Adventure (25-Nov-1984) Narrator [VOICE]
    White Dog (7-Jul-1982)
    Earthbound (30-Jan-1981)
    Just You and Me Kid (13-Jul-1979)
    The Bermuda Depths (27-Jan-1978)
    Roots (23-Jan-1977)
    Captains and the Kings (30-Sep-1976)
    Baker's Hawk (1976)
    Rocket to the Moon (21-Jun-1967)
    Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (6-Dec-1964) [VOICE]
    Ensign Pulver (31-Jul-1964)
    The Brass Bottle (20-May-1964)
    Summer Magic (7-Jul-1963)
    The Spiral Road (3-Aug-1962)
    Our Man in Havana (27-Jan-1960)
    Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
    Day of the Outlaw (Jul-1959)
    The Big Country (1-Oct-1958)
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (18-Sep-1958)
    Wind Across the Everglades (11-Sep-1958)
    Desire Under the Elms (12-Mar-1958)
    East of Eden (9-Mar-1955)
    So Dear to My Heart (19-Jan-1949)
    Smoky (26-Jun-1946)

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