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{{Short description|American musician and actor (1909–1995)}}
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| caption       = Ives in ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1958)
| birth_name    = Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1909|6|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Hunt City, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1995|4|14|1909|6|14|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [[Anacortes, Washington]], U.S.
| burial_place  = Mound Cemetery, {{awrap|[[Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois]]}}
| occupation    = {{hlist|Musician|singer|actor|author}}
| years_active  = 1929–1993
| awards        = {{ubl|[[Silver Buffalo Award]]|[[Order of Lincoln]]|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Academy Award]]}}
| spouse        = {{ubl|{{Marriage|Helen Peck Ehrlich|December 6, 1945|February 1971|end=divorced}}|{{Marriage|Dorothy Koster Paul|April 1971}}}}
| children      = 1
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| instrument    = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar|banjo}}
| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[The Andrews Sisters]]|[[Percy Faith]]|[[Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers]]|[[Grady Martin]]|[[Gordon Jenkins]]|[[Anita Kerr]]}}
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'''Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives''' (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American [[Folk music|folk]] singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.

Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, ''The Wayfaring Stranger'', which popularized traditional folk songs. In 1942, he appeared in [[Irving Berlin]]'s ''[[This Is the Army]]'' and became a major star of [[CBS Radio]]. In the 1960s, he successfully crossed over into [[country music]], recording hits such as "[[A Little Bitty Tear]]" and "[[Funny Way of Laughin']]". Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'' (1948) and ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in ''[[The Big Country]]'' (1958), for which he won an [[31st Academy Awards|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]], and the film noir ''[[Day of the Outlaw]]'' (1959).

Ives is often associated with the Christmas season. He did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]''. Ives also worked on the [[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (soundtrack)|special's soundtrack]], including the songs "[[A Holly Jolly Christmas]]" and "[[Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]", both of which continue to chart annually on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] holiday charts into the 2020s.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Holiday 100 Chart|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs|access-date=2021-04-21|magazine=Billboard|date=January 2, 2013}}</ref>

==Early life==
Ives was born in [[Hunt City, Illinois|Hunt City]], an unincorporated town in [[Jasper County, Illinois]], near [[Newton, Illinois|Newton]], to Levi "Frank" Ives (1880–1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" (née White; 1882–1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others. One day, Ives was singing in the garden with his mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad "[[Barbara Allen (song)|Barbara Allen]]" and impressed both his uncle and the audience.<ref>Burl Ives (1948). ''Wayfaring Stranger''. New York: Whittlesey House, pp. 15–20. ISBN 9781787204898</ref>

From 1927 to 1929, Ives attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College (now [[Eastern Illinois University]]) in [[Charleston, Illinois]], where he played football.<ref>Betsy Cole, "Eastern Mourns Burl Ives", ''Daily Eastern News'', April 17, 1995.</ref> During his junior year, he was sitting in English class, listening to a lecture on ''[[Beowulf]],'' when he suddenly realized he was wasting his time. As he walked out of the door, the professor made a snide remark and Ives slammed the door behind him, shattering the window in the door.<ref>Ives, ''Wayfaring Stranger'' pp. 108–109.</ref> Sixty years later, the school named a building after its most famous dropout.<ref>Associated Press, "Eastern Illinois University Honors Famed Dropout Burl Ives," ''St. Louis Post Dispatch'', May 3, 1990, p. 71. Accessed via NewsBank.</ref> Ives was a member of the Charleston Chapter of [[DeMolay International|The Order of DeMolay]] and is listed in the DeMolay Hall of Fame. He was also initiated into [[Scottish Rite Freemasonry]] in 1927.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140328141228/http://scottishrite.org/headquarters/virtual-tour/burl-ives-museum/ Burl Ives Museum] ''Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite''.</ref> He was elevated to the 33rd and highest degree<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stjohnslodgedc.org/famous-masons |title=Famous Freemasons in the course of history |language=en |website=St. John Lodge No 11 F.A.A.M. |access-date=September 30, 2018 |quotation=Magnolia Lodge (now Magnolia-La Cumbre Lodge) No. 242 in Santa Barbara, California. Knight Templar, St. Omer Commandery No.30, Santa Barbara, Apr. 15, 1978; Shrine, inducted at Al Malaikah Shrine Temple, Los Angeles, 33 deg. AASR, Grand Cross. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116030150/http://www.stjohnslodgedc.org/famous-masons |archive-date=November 16, 2015 |url-status=live}} (the oldest original or un-merged Masonic Lodge in the District of Columbia)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.matawanlodge.org/famous.htm |title=Celebrating more than 100 years of the Freemasonry: famous Freemasons in the history |language=en |website=Mathawan Lodge No 192 F.A. & A.M., New Jersey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510153526/http://www.matawanlodge.org/famous.htm |archive-date=May 10, 2008 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> in 1987, and was later elected the Grand Cross.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=4&new_day=14&new_year=2018 |title=Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives Passes Away |language=en |access-date=October 13, 2018 |website=masonrytoday.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014133057/https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=4&new_day=14&new_year=2018 |archive-date=October 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On July 23, 1929, in [[Richmond, Indiana]], Ives made a trial recording of "Behind the Clouds" for the Starr Piano Company's [[Gennett Records|Gennett]] label, but the recording was rejected and destroyed a few weeks later. In later years Ives did not recall having made the record.<ref>Tony Russell, ''Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921–1942'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 17, 369.</ref>

==Music career==
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===1930s–1940s===
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his [[banjo]]. He was jailed in [[Mona, Utah]], for [[vagrancy (people)|vagrancy]] and for singing "[[Foggy Dew (English song)|Foggy Dew]]" (an English folk song), which the authorities decided was a [[bawdy song]].<ref>''Wayfaring Stranger'' pp. 129–132.</ref> Around 1931, he began performing on [[WBOW]] radio in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]]. He also went back to school, attending classes at Indiana State Teachers College (now [[Indiana State University]]).<ref>''Wayfaring Stranger'' p. 145.</ref> In 1933, Ives also attended the [[Juilliard School]] in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1938 with a small role in [[Rodgers and Hart]]'s hit musical, ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]''. In 1939, he joined his friend and fellow actor [[Eddie Albert]], who had the starring role in ''The Boys from Syracuse'', in Los Angeles. The two shared an apartment for a while in the [[Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles|Beachwood Canyon]] community of Hollywood.

In 1940, Ives named his own radio show, ''The Wayfaring Stranger'', after one of his ballads. Over the next decade, he popularized several traditional folk songs, such as "Foggy Dew", "[[The Blue Tail Fly]]" (an old [[Blackface minstrelsy|minstrel]] tune now better known as "[[Jimmy Crack Corn]]"), and "[[Big Rock Candy Mountain]]" (an old [[hobo]] song). He was also associated with the [[Almanac Singers|Almanacs]], a folk-singing group which at different times included [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Will Geer]], [[Millard Lampell]], and [[Pete Seeger]]. The Almanacs were active in the [[American Peace Mobilization]] (APM), a far left group initially opposed to American entry into [[World War II]] and [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s pro-Allied policies. They recorded such songs as "Get Out and Stay Out of War" and "Franklin, Oh Franklin".<ref name="revival">{{cite journal |first1=Ron |last1=Eyerman |first2=Scott |last2=Barretta |title=The Folk Music Revival in the United States |journal=[[Theory & Society]] |location=New York City |volume=25 |issue=4 |date=August 1996 |pages=501–543 |doi=10.1007/BF00160675|s2cid=142024250 }}</ref>

In June 1941, after the [[Operation Barbarossa|Axis invasion of the Soviet Union]], the APM abandoned its pacifist stance and reorganized itself into the pro-war American People's Mobilization. Ives and the Almanacs rerecorded several of their songs to reflect the group's new stance in favor of US entry into the war. Among them were "Dear Mr. President" and "Reuben James" (the name of a [[USS Reuben James (DD-245)|US destroyer sunk by the Germans]] before the official US entry into the war).<ref name="revival"/>

In early 1942, Ives was drafted into the [[U.S. Army]]. He spent time first at [[Camp Dix]], then at [[Camp Upton]], where he joined the cast of [[Irving Berlin]]'s ''[[This Is the Army]].'' He attained the rank of corporal.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} When the show went to Hollywood, he was transferred to the [[Army Air Force]]s. He was honorably discharged, apparently for medical reasons, in September 1943. Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor [[Harry Morgan]]. In December 1943, Ives went to [[New York City]] to work for [[CBS Radio]] for $100 a week.<ref>{{cite book|last=U.S. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws|title=Subversive Infiltration of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Second Congress, on Subversive Infiltration of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry, March 20, 26, April 23, and May 20, 1952, Part 2|location=Washington|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gTRtp_huMwC|pages=205–228|chapter=Testimony of Burl Icle Ives, New York, N.Y.}}</ref> In 1944, he recorded ''The Lonesome Train'', a ballad about the life and death of [[Abraham Lincoln]], written by [[Earl Robinson]] (music) and Lampell (lyrics).

In 1946, Ives was cast as a singing cowboy in the film ''[[Smoky (1946 film)|Smoky]]''.<ref>[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/43959 Burl Ives Biography], ''Sitcoms Online''.</ref>

In 1947, Ives recorded one of many versions of "The Blue Tail Fly", but paired this time with the popular [[Andrews Sisters]] (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne). The flip side of the record was a fast-paced "I'm Goin' Down the Road". Ives hoped the trio's success would help the record sell well, which it did, becoming both a best-selling disc and a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' hit.<ref>{{cite book| title=Swing It! The Andrews Sisters Story| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=Swing+It!+The+Andrews+Sisters+Story| last=Sforza| first=John| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| date=January 13, 2015| page=111| edition=reprint| isbn=978-0813148977| access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref>

His version of the song "[[Lavender Blue]]" became his first hit and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] after Ives introduced it in the 1949 film ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]''.

Music critic [[John Rockwell]] said, "Ives' voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccinian]] vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. And it moved people".<ref>{{cite book| first=John| last=Rockwell| title=Outsider, John Rockwell on the Arts, 1967–2006| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrKByWgDc-kC&q=ives+voice&pg=PA548| date=May 1, 2009| publisher=Hal Leonard Corp| page=479| isbn=978-0879103675}}</ref>

===1950s–1960s===
[[File:Burlives.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Ives in 1955, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]]]]
[[Image:Cat on a Hot Tin Roof9.jpg|thumb|Ives (left) with [[Paul Newman]] in ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'']]
[[File:"Old Hermit" actor Burl Ives and hermit Roy Ozmer talking with another actor- Pelican Key, Florida (3247325433).jpg|thumb|Ives while filming ''Wind Across the Everglades'' in 1957]]
Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet ''[[Red Channels]]'' and [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]] as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties.<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael D.|last=Murray|title=Encyclopedia of Television News|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|date=1998|page=18}}</ref> In 1952, he cooperated with the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) and agreed to testify, fearful of losing his source of income. Ives's statement to the HUAC ended his blacklisting, allowing him to continue acting in movies, but it also led to a bitter rift between Ives and many folk singers, including [[Pete Seeger]], who accused Ives of naming names and betraying the cause of cultural and political freedom to save his own career. Seeger publicly ridiculed Ives for attempting to distance himself from many of the far-left organizations he had supported.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturalequity.org/alan-lomax/friends/ives|title = Burl Ives &#124; Association for Cultural Equity}}</ref> In 1993, Ives, by then using a wheelchair, reunited with Seeger during a benefit concert in New York City, having reconciled years earlier. They sang "Blue Tail Fly" together.<ref>{{cite news| first=Dean| last=Kahn| title=Ives-Seeger Rift Finally Ended with 'Blue-Tail Fly' Harmony: Skagitonians Ives, Murros Were on Opposite Sides| agency=[[Knight Ridder Tribune Business News]]| newspaper=[[Bellingham Herald]]| date=March 19, 2006| page=1}}</ref>
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Ives expanded his appearances in films during this decade. His movie credits include the role of Sam the Sheriff of Salinas, California, in ''[[East of Eden (film)|East of Eden]]'', Big Daddy in ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'', roles in ''[[Desire Under the Elms (film)|Desire Under the Elms]]'', ''[[Wind Across the Everglades]]'', ''[[The Big Country]]'', for which he won an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]], ''[[Ensign Pulver]]'', the sequel to ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]'', and ''[[Our Man in Havana]]'', based on the [[Graham Greene]] novel.

Barred for a while from American employment, he frequently played on BBC Radio's ''[[Children's Hour]]'', with such favorites as "Big Rock Candy Mountain", "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain", and "Lavender Blue". Ives also performed at the Royal Coronation festival in 1952 which purportedly was also attended by a young [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gary James' Interview With Burl Ives |url=https://www.classicbands.com/BurlIvesInterview.html |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=www.classicbands.com}}</ref>

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

===1960s–1990s===
In the 1960s, Ives began singing [[country music]] with greater frequency. In 1962, he released three songs that were popular with both country music and popular music fans: "[[A Little Bitty Tear]]", "Call Me Mister In-Between", and "[[Funny Way of Laughin']]". His records, recorded in Nashville for [[Decca Records]], were produced by [[Owen Bradley]], one of the record producers who (along with [[Chet Atkins]]) helped define the [[Nashville Sound]] style of country music that expanded the music's appeal to a wider audience. Bradley used the [[Nashville A-Team]] of session musicians behind Ives, including the [[Anita Kerr Singers]], which enhanced Ives' appeal. Bradley also produced the recording of Ives's perennial Holiday favorite "[[A Holly Jolly Christmas]]" in Nashville.

Ives had several film and television roles during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1961, he sang the folk song, "[[I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly]]" for a short film of the same name produced by the [[National Film Board of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjK4pnbW-6o&ab_channel=NFB | title=I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | website=[[YouTube]] | date=October 26, 2016 }}</ref> In 1962, he starred with [[Rock Hudson]] in ''[[The Spiral Road]],'' which was based on a novel of the same name by [[Jan de Hartog]]. He also starred in Disney's ''[[Summer Magic (film)|Summer Magic]]'' with [[Hayley Mills]], [[Dorothy McGuire]], and [[Eddie Hodges]], and a score by [[Robert B. Sherman|Robert]] and [[Richard M. Sherman|Richard Sherman]]. In 1964, he played the genie in the movie ''[[The Brass Bottle (1964 film)|The Brass Bottle]]'' with [[Tony Randall]] and [[Barbara Eden]].

Ives's "[[A Holly Jolly Christmas]]" and "Silver and Gold" became Christmas standards after they were first featured in the 1964 NBC-TV presentation of the [[Rankin/Bass]] stop-motion animated family special [[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'']]. [[Johnny Marks]] had composed the title song (originally an enormous hit for singing cowboy [[Gene Autry]]) in 1949, and producers [[Arthur Rankin, Jr.]] and [[Jules Bass]] retained him to compose the TV special's soundtrack. Ives voiced Sam the Snowman, the banjo-playing "host" and narrator of the story, explaining how Rudolph used his "nonconformity", as Sam refers to it, to save Christmas from being cancelled due to an impassable blizzard. The following year, Ives rerecorded all three of the Johnny Marks hits which he had sung in the TV special, but with a more "pop" feel. He released them all as singles for the 1965 holiday season, capitalizing on their previous success.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} In 2022, 27 years after his death, "[[A Holly Jolly Christmas]]", made the [[Billboard Year-End]] chart.<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Hot 100 Songs | magazine=Billboard | date=January 2, 2013 | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/hot-100-songs/ | access-date=June 22, 2023}}</ref>

Ives performed in other television productions, including ''[[Pinocchio (1968 film)|Pinocchio]]'' and ''[[Roots (1977 miniseries)|Roots]].''

He starred in short-lived ''[[O.K. Crackerby!]]'' (1965–66), a comedy which costarred Hal Buckley, Joel Davison, and [[Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams]], about the presumed richest man in the world, which replaced [[Walter Brennan]]'s somewhat similar ''[[The Tycoon (TV series)|The Tycoon]]'' on the ABC schedule from the preceding year.

He played Walter Nichols in the drama ''[[The Bold Ones: The Lawyers]]'' (1969–72), a segment of the [[wheel series]] ''[[The Bold Ones]]''.

Ives narrated the [[1971 Washington Redskins season|1971 season]] highlight film for the [[Washington Commanders|Washington Redskins]] of the [[National Football League]] produced by [[NFL Films]]. The Executive Producer was NFL Films founder [[Ed Sabol]], and chief producer was Ed's son, [[Steve Sabol]]. Ed and Steve Sabol are members of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]].

Ives occasionally starred in macabre-themed productions. In 1970, for example, he played the title role in ''The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever'', in which his character attempts to harvest human organs from unwilling donors. In 1972, he appeared as old man Doubleday in the episode "The Other Way Out" of [[Rod Serling]]'s ''[[Night Gallery]]'', in which his character seeks a gruesome revenge for the murder of his granddaughter.

In honor of Ives's influence on American vocal music, on October 25, 1975, he was awarded the [[University of Pennsylvania Glee Club]] Award of Merit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/gleeclub/MEMBERS_merit.html |title = The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit Recipients |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209191432/http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/gleeclub/MEMBERS_merit.html |archive-date=February 9, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> This award, initiated in 1964, was "established to bring a declaration of appreciation to an individual each year who has made a significant contribution to the world of music and helped to create a climate in which our talents may find valid expression."

When [[America Sings]] opened at [[Disneyland]] in 1974, Ives voiced the main host, Sam Eagle, an [[Audio-Animatronics|Audio-Animatronic]].

In 1976, Ives was featured as a main character in ''Little House on the Prairie'' season 3 episode 10 titled "The Hunters". Ives played an old fur trapper who was blind and afraid to leave the comfort and safety of his cabin which he shared with his adult son (Johnny Crawford). In this episode Ives paired off with Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) to help rescue her injured father who was accidentally shot while hunting for venison.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Odessa American |location=Odessa, Texas| date=December 19, 1976 | page=101 | title=Burl Ivest Cast as Blind Man | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-odessa-american-burl-ives-blind-man/123170223/}}</ref>

Ives lent his name and image to the U.S. [[Bureau of Land Management]]'s "This Land Is Your Land – Keep It Clean" campaign in the 1970s. He was portrayed with the program's fictional spokesman, [[Johnny Horizon]].

Burl Ives was seen regularly in television commercials for [[Luzianne]] tea for several years during the 1970s and 1980s, when he was the company's commercial spokesman.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2011/jun/30/summertime-perfect-time-southern-style-sw-20110630/| title=Summertime perfect time for Southern-style sweet tea| newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]| first=Jeannie| last=Stone|access-date=2020-03-26| date=June 30, 2011}}</ref>

In 1982 he played Carruthers, a dog trainer, in [[Samuel Fuller]]'s controversial and critically acclaimed film ''[[White Dog (1982 film)|White Dog]]''.

In 1989, Ives officially announced his retirement from show business on his 80th birthday. However, he continued to do occasional benefit concert performances of his own accord until 1993.

==Other engagements==

=== Broadway roles ===
Ives's [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] career 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 (musical)|Paint Your Wagon]]'' (1951–52), and ''Dr. Cook's Garden'' (1967). His most notable Broadway performance (later reprised in a 1958 movie) was as "Big Daddy" Pollitt in ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1955–56).

=== Autobiography ===
Ives's autobiography, ''The Wayfaring Stranger'', was published in 1948.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/10704048] Ives, Burl (1948). Wayfaring stranger. Whittlesey House, New York, 253 pages</ref> He also wrote or compiled several other 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 relationship with the [[Boy Scouts of America]]. He was a [[Lone Scouts of America|Lone Scout]] before that group merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1924.<ref>Lone Scout Foundation, "How the Lone Scouts of America Came To Be": [http://www.lonescouts.net/002_how_lsa_came_2_b.htm link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723190130/http://www.lonescouts.net/002_how_lsa_came_2_b.htm |date=July 23, 2011 }}.</ref> The organization "inducted" Ives in 1966.<ref>Guide to the Burl Ives Papers, 1913–1975, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: [http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/pdf/THEIVES.pdf link] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611221514/http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/pdf/THEIVES.pdf |date=June 11, 2007 }}.</ref> He received the Boy Scouts' [[Silver Buffalo Award]], its highest honor. The certificate for the award is on display at the Scouting Museum in [[Valley Forge, Pennsylvania]].<ref>The World of Scouting Museum at Valley Forge: Our Collection: [http://www.worldofscoutingmuseum.org/collection.html link].</ref>

Ives often performed at the quadrennial Boy Scouts of America [[jamboree]], including the 1981 jamboree at [[Fort A.P. Hill]] in Virginia, where he shared the stage with the [[Oak Ridge Boys]].<ref>John C. Halter, "A Spirit of Time and Place," ''Scouting Magazine'', September 2004: [http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0409/a-sprt.html link].</ref> There is a 1977 sound recording of Ives being interviewed by Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree at [[Moraine State Park]], Pennsylvania.<ref>WorldCat: OCLC No. 28143341: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28143341&referer=brief_results link].</ref> Ives was also the narrator of a 28-minute film about the 1977 National Jamboree. In the film, which was produced by the Boy Scouts of America, Ives "shows the many ways in which Scouting provides opportunities for young people to develop character and expand their horizons."<ref>WorldCat: OCLC No. 5641115: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5641115&referer=brief_results link].</ref>

== Civic awards ==
Ives was inducted as a laureate of [[the Lincoln Academy of Illinois]] and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state's highest honor) by the governor of Illinois in 1976 in the area of the performing arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-40|title=Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|website=The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|language=en-US|access-date=March 4, 2016|archive-date=September 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204516/http://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/4632-2/#toggle-id-40|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Ives was inducted into the [[DeMolay International]] Hall of Fame in June 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://demolay.org/halloffame/bio.php?id=26 |title=Burl Ives on the Hall of Fame| publisher=DeMolay International |access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
On December 6, 1945, Ives, then 36, married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich.<ref name=wed>{{cite news |title=Burl Ives Weds Script Writer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 8, 1945 |page=24 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/08/103607330.html?pageNumber=24 |access-date=January 12, 2023}}</ref> Their son Alexander was born in 1949.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barnes |first=Bart |date=April 15, 1995 |title=Singer, Actor Burl Ives Dies |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/04/15/singer-actor-burl-ives-dies/617ec2f8-3515-4762-885d-d46b9981de1b/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113095026/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/04/15/singer-actor-burl-ives-dies/617ec2f8-3515-4762-885d-d46b9981de1b/ |archive-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref>

Ives and Helen Peck Ehrlich were [[divorce]]d in February 1971.<ref>{{cite news |title=Burl Ives Divorced |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/burl-ives-divorced.html |access-date=January 12, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=February 19, 1971 |page=27}}</ref> Ives married Dorothy Koster Paul in London two months later.<ref>UPI, "Burl Ives Weds", ''Evening Sentinel,'' Holland, Michigan, April 17, 1971, p. 3. Accessed via Access NewspaperARCHIVE</ref> In their later years, Ives and Paul lived in a waterfront home in [[Anacortes, Washington]], in the [[Puget Sound]] area, and in [[Galisteo, New Mexico]], near the [[Turquoise Trail]]. In the 1960s, he had another home just south of [[Hope Town]] on [[Elbow Cay]], a barrier island of the [[Abaco Islands|Abacos]] in the [[Bahamas]].<ref>{{cite journal| title=A Snowman in Abaco| url=https://littlehousebytheferry.com/category/burl-ives/| date=December 22, 2014| journal=Little House by the Ferry| first=Amanda| last=Diedrick| access-date=March 26, 2020| archive-date=March 26, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326221124/https://littlehousebytheferry.com/category/burl-ives/| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Death==
Ives, a longtime smoker of pipes and cigars, was diagnosed with [[oral cancer]] in the summer of 1994. After several unsuccessful operations, he decided against further surgery. He fell into a [[coma]] and died from the disease on April 14, 1995, at his home in [[Anacortes, Washington]], at age 85.<ref>{{cite news |last=Severo |first=Richard |date=April 15, 1995 |title=Burl Ives, the Folk Singer Whose Imposing Acting Won an Oscar, Dies at 85 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/15/obituaries/burl-ives-the-folk-singer-whose-imposing-acting-won-an-oscar-dies-at-85.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was buried at Mound Cemetery in [[Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.enjoyillinois.com/explore/listing/burl-ives-grave/|title=Burl Ives Grave in Mound Cemetery|website=Enjoyillinois.com}}</ref>

== Discography and filmography ==
{{Main|List of works by Burl Ives}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Archival records|title=Burl Ives collection, 1919-1965|location= [[Music Division, Library of Congress]]|description_URL=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu016006}}
{{Commons category|Burl Ives}}

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* {{cite web |url= http://www.burlives.com/ |title= Burl Ives |work= Fan site |publisher= Gemini Gems Music }}
* {{cite archive |collection-url= http://www.nypl.org/archives/4436 |collection= Burl Ives Papers, 1913–1975 |institution= Billy Rose Theatre Division |location= [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]] }}
* {{cite archive |collection-url= http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.scdb.200033549/ |collection= Burl Ives Collection |institution= Library of Congress }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.culturalequity.org/alan-lomax/friends/ives |title= Burl Ives |series= Alan Lomax |work= Friends and Colleagues |publisher= Cultural Equity }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/BurlIves.html |title= Burl Ives Performance Review |website= Big Bands and Big Names }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.evareynoldsfinearts.com/index.php/Artists/thomas_hart_benton/Hymn%20Singer |first= Thomas Hart |last= Benton |author-link= Thomas Hart Benton (painter) |series= Lithograph |title= Hymn Singer (Burl Ives) |publisher= Eva Reynolds Fine Arts |url-status= dead |archive-date= June 11, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150611040147/http://www.evareynoldsfinearts.com/index.php/Artists/thomas_hart_benton/Hymn%20Singer/ }}
* {{citation |url= https://scottishrite.org/development/giving/donor-recognition/hall-of-honor/hall-of-honor-portrait-gallery/ |title= Hall of Honor Portrait Gallery |work= 33rd Deg. |publisher= Scottish Rite of Freemasonry }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mxlg |title= Burl Ives interview |first= Roy |last= Plomley |format= mp3 |publisher= BBC Radio 4 |work= [[Desert Island Discs]] |date= April 3, 1979 }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.wnyc.org/story/wayfaring-stranger-burl-ives-performs-book-and-author-luncheon |format= mp3 |id= 150181 |title= Burl Ives Performing at the New York Herald Tribune Book and Author Luncheon |date= Feb 10, 1954 |website= WNYC |publisher= Annotations: NEH Preservation Project}}
* [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/204836 Burl Ives recordings] at the [[Discography of American Historical Recordings]].

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