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Burl Ives
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Actor Born: June 14, 1909 in Hunt, Jaspar County, IL Death: April 14, 1995 in Anacortes, WA Biography:After attending Charleston (Illinois) Teachers College and New York University, bearded, burly "Burl Ives" played pro football, then traversed the country as an itinerant handyman. His gifts as a guitarist and balladeer enabled Ives to secure radio work in the 1940s: one of his earliest series was titled, appropriately enough, "The Wayfaring Stranger". A natural-born actor, Ives made his screen debut in 1946's "Smoky". Throughout the rest of his career, there were two "Burl Ives". The twinkly-eyed, grandfatherly Ives was the fellow who provided comedy relief in such films as "Summer Magic" (1963) and "The Brass Bottle" (1964), who starred in the easygoing culture-clash TV sitcom "OK Crackerby" (1965) who played the gruff-but-avuncular senior attorney on the weekly series "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" (1969), and who recorded such song hits as "Itty Bitty Tear," "My Funny Way of Laughing" and that... Full Biography
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