Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 - 14 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning American actor and acclaimed folk music singer and author. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie The Big Country. Wikipedia
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Burl Ives was one of six children born to a Scottish-Irish farming family in Jasper County, Illinois in 1909. 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 www.imdb.com/name/nm0412322/
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