Burl Ives
Burl Ives icle Ivanhoe (* 14. June 1909 in Hunt City , Illinois ; † 14. April 1995 in Anacortes , Washington ) was an American folk - singer , author and actor .
Life
In the 1930s Ives began to roam the country as a musician. He had a popular radio show in the 1940s. In 1948 he published his first book, The Wayfaring Stranger .
In 1946, Ives played the singing cowboy in the movie Smoky, King of the Prairie . The many other films he starred in include Beyond Eden (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Far Country (1958), for which he won an Oscar for Best Male Supporting Actor, and Our Man in Havana (1959) based on the novel by Graham Greene .
In the 1940s he enjoyed success with some old folk songs , including Lavender Blue (his first hit, a 17th century folk song), Foggy Foggy Dew (an Irish folk song), Blue Tail Fly (a Civil War song), and Big Rock Candy Mountain (an old hobo song). Burl Ives also wrote the first LP version of the song 'Ghostriders in the sky'.
In the 1950s, Ives cooperated with the Committee on Un-American Activities , denouncing Pete Seeger and others as possible communists .
Ives began singing country tracks in the 1960s . In 1962 he had three top 20 hits with A Little Bitty Tear , Call Me Mr In-Between and Funny Way of Laughing . Also in 1962 he had his last top 40 hit with Mary Ann Regrets . In the following two years he was able to place himself in the charts four times, but only in the lower ranks.
He participated in several television productions, including as a narrator in the puppet cartoon Rudolf Rotnase (1964), Pinocchio (1968) and Roots (1977). In Rudolf Rotnase he also sang his song "A Holly Jolly Christmas".
Burl Ives died of cancer at the age of 85.
Filmography (selection)
- 1946: The King of the Prairie; also: Smoky, King of the Prairie (Smoky)
- 1948: Green Grass of Wyoming
- 1948: Gangsters of the Prairie (Station West)
- 1949: So dear to my Heart
- 1950: Sierra
- 1955: East of Eden (East of Eden)
- 1956: The Power and the Prize ( The Power and the Prize )
- 1958: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof)
- 1958: The Big Country (The Big Country)
- 1958: Desire under the Elms
- 1958: Wind across the Everglades
- 1959: Our Man in Havana (Our Man in Havana)
- 1959: Day of the wicked (Day of the Outlaw)
- 1960: The seed breaks (Let no Man write my Epitaph)
- 1961: On the Black River (The Spiral Road)
- 1963: My room becomes a harem (The Brass Bottle)
- 1963: Operation Pacific (Ensign Powder)
- 1963: Summer Magic
- 1967 Rocket to the Moon : Crazy Guys in Rattling Rockets
- 1969–1972: The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV series)
- 1970: The McMasters (The McMasters… Tougher than the West itself)
- 1976: Little House (Little House on the Prairie) (TV Series)
- 1976: Baker's Hawk
- 1977: Roots (TV series)
- 1978: End of the line Planet Earth (Earth Bound)
- 1978: The Bermuda Depths
- 1978: The New Adventures of Heidi
- 1979: Just you and me, Kid
- 1981: White Dog (White Dog)
- 1988: Two Moon Junction
Awards
- 1958: Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in Wide Land
- 1959: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Wide Land
- 1963: Grammy for best country and western recording ("Funny Way of Laughing")
Remarks
- ↑ A Little Bitty Tear reached number 9 in the US singles charts, Funny Way Of Laughing number 10 and Call Me Mr. In-Between number 19. Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 294
Web links
- Burl Ives in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Burl Ives in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ives, Burl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ives, Burl Icle Ivanhoe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American folk singer, writer, and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hunt City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1995 |
| Place of death | Anacortes |